Your Water Survival Training Program:

Survival-Trainings: Water Survival

The fast (emergency) landing can take place in shortest time in hard-to-travel areas or also in different climatic regions. Thus the teams of the Soyuz spacecraft are trained, after a landing in the ocean, in the desert to survive in the mountains and ice/winter regions until the rescue team arrives after maximally 36 hours.

During the Survival trainings practice the crews of international origin these emergencies in the most diverse climatic conditions. The crews are trained to bear and survive longer at the place of the landing.

Preliminary Training
The Preliminary training is accomplished in the trainingscamp by Kudepsta (Sochi/Black Sea)or in the region of Crimea/Ukraine. It contains the following activities:
- theoretical and practical training of the portable (and buoyant) survival kit (HA 3)"Granat 6" (purpose, structure, contents, major tasks, functional guidances, safety precautions) - 4 hours.
Theoretical safety briefings for surviving on the open sea, discussion of medical characteristics, meteorology, geography. - 2 hours
- Practical exercises with the survival kit "Granat 6"

Dry Training
Dry training is accomplished on board the Vessel Ships and contains following exercises and briefings:
- firing exercises with the TP-83 pistol (a component of the survival kit "Granat 6")
- Exercises in signal ammunition for day and night
- Exercises with the pressure suit "Sokol"
- Exercises with the floating device
- Exercises with the survival sut "Forel"
- Execution of the dry training in the Soyuz Descent Capsule, use of the radio communication system, setting off the emergency calls, taking the Sokol pressure suit off and creation of the thermal underwear, the flight suit and the rescue suit "Forel" on material exercise conditions on board the afterdeck on the ship. Opening of the hatch from the Soyuz capsule and escape.
- Duration: ca. 4 hours

Long Term Training
- Suspending the Soyuz descent capsule on the open sea
- Crewtraining with together with 2 cosmonauts inside the capsule
- Execution of the long term training inside the Soyuz descent capsule, using of the communication system, setting off the emergency calls.
- Take off the Sokol space suit and creation of the thermal underwear, the flight suit and the rescue suit "Forel" on material exercise conditions on the open sea. Leave the capsule. Swim in the survival suit "Forel" on the open sea. Employment of the survival kit "Granat 6" swimming in the sea. Radio establishment and contact with the salvage team. Train with signal ammunition for day and night.
- Duration: ca. 8 hours

Short Term Training
- Suspending the Soyuz descent capsule on the open sea
- Crew training together with 2 cosmonauts inside the capsule
- Execution of the short term training inside the Soyuz descent capsule, using of the communication systems, setting off the emergency calls.
- Simulated emergency onboard with open fire. Using the floating device, leaving the Soyuz descent capsule.
- Execution of the floating device onto open water, swimming inside the Sokol pressure suit.
- Execution and handling of the rescue kit "Granat 6" with the complete drew onto open water. Communication with the rescue team, training with signal ammuniton for day and night.
- Duration ca. 6 hours

Medical CheckUp before the trainings and medical monitoring and examination during the training.

The trainings participant must have a medical certificate about his health status. Only with this the participant is able to perform the training.
- Before every training the participant will have a medical examination, and the physicians will give the order for participation at the water survival training.
- During times, the participant must be communicate over the communication device with physicians about his health-status and the status of his comerades.

Weather conditions:
The weather conditions in the planned period are unforeseeable. Normally the days are very warm, and there are thunderstorms in the night and in the morning

Planned training process:

Training Day One:
Arrival at international airport Sheremetyevo II at afternoon, welcome at the airport. A special tour guide from the GCTC will pick you up and transport you with a van or a car to Star City. Dinner in Star City.
VIP sightseeing of the trainings-facilities of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre.
Accomodiation in the Star City Prophylactorium

Training Day Two:
06:00 Breakfast in the Prophylactorium
06:30 Pick up with a car or a van, transportation to the National Airport Sheremetyevo I
09:00 Flight with line flight to Sochi )
11:30 Arrival at Kudepsta Kudepsta "Adler"-Airport (or at Sevastopol/Ukraina)
12:00 Pick up from the rescue team after emigration and transportation with the complete team to Kudepsta hotel
13:00 Lunch in the trainingscamp or hotel
14:00 Preliminary Training
18:00 Dinner
19:00 - 21:00 Preliminary Training
22:00 Recreatuion

Training Day Three:
08:00 Breakfast with the team at trainingscamp or hotel
09:00 Transportation with a boat to the Vessel Ship „SB 36“
10:00 Preliminary Training
12:00 Lunch onboard the ship
14:00 - 17:00 Preliminary Training
17:00 Leaving the Vessel Ship with a boat, transportation with the bus to the trainingscamp or hotel
19:00 Lunch in the trainingscamp or hotel
22:00 Recreationt

Training Day Four:
08:00 Breakfast in the trainingscamp or hotel with the team
09:00 Transportation with a boat to the Vessel Ship „SB 36“
10:00 - 12:00 Preliminary Training
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch onboard the ship
14:00 - 18:00 Dry Training inside the Soyuz descent capsule
18:00 Leaving the ship with a boat, transportation with the bus to the trainingscamp or hotel
19:00 Lunch in the trainingscamp or hotel
22:00 Recreation

Training Day Five:
08:00 Breakfast in the trainingscamp or hotel with the team
09:00 Transportation with a boat to Vessel Ship „SB 36“
10:00 - 12:00 Preliminary Training
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch onboard the ship
14:00 - 18:00 Long Term Training
18:00 Leaving the ship with a boat, transportation with the bus to the trainingscamp or hotel
19:00 Dinner in the trainingscamp or hotel
22:00 Ruhezeit

Training Day Six:
08:00 Breakfast in the trainingscamp or hotel with the team
09:00 Transportation with a boat to the „Vessel Ship „SB 36“
10:00 - 16:00 Short Term Training (occasionally lunch)
16:00 - 17:00 End of the complete training and short on deck celebration with certificates to the participants and the team.
17:00 Leaving the ship with a boat, transportation with the bus to the trainingscamp or hotel
20:00 Farewell-party with the complete trainingsteam

Training Day Seven:
07:00 Breakfast in the trainingscamp or in the hotel
08:30 Transportation to the Adler-Airport (Sochi) or Sevastopol Airport
10:00 Departure to Moscow
12:30 Arrival Moscow at airport Sheremetyevo I
13:30 Transportation to the airport Sheremetyevo II
Departure ca. 17:00 to Germany