Sea Alarm has developed a portfolio of training and exercise modules that will help individuals, organisations and response teams to develop the necessary knowledge, skills and experience. We focus on continuous development of materials including table top exercises, field exercises, instruction manuals, visuals, and simulation software, to create a realistic picture of what the key challenges are and how to deal with them. Our expertise can help oil companies or governmental agencies in their efforts to develop consistent training and exercise programmes to train key staff positions in an oiled wildlife or marine emergency response.
Sea Alarm can facilitate the design, planning and delivery of training and exercises, either as standalone events or integrated into a larger oil spill response set-up.
Our Training Portfolio
Sea Alarm has developed two levels of oiled wildlife preparedness and response training and has worked together with the EUROWA Network to develop hands-on responder trainings and tactical courses. These training courses target different actors in the IMS system and the Wildlife Branch as shown in the pyramid diagram below.
Who are the courses for?
Wildlife Response Exercises
In a marine wildlife response, a large number of individuals and organisations need to work together according to proven techniques and strategies to be effective. The best way to test and train this cooperation is to have an exercise that concentrates on a specific part (or parts) of a response.
Small scale exercises may include notification tests to check a plan’s contact lists or table-top exercises to practice the decision making process in a wildlife response facility. Larger-scale exercises can include an equipment mobilisation exercise or the mobilisation of a whole response system including people, facilities and equipment.
Serious games – WildX and OneX
Experience has shown us that different training formats are needed to visualise complexity in an oiled wildife incident or other marine emergency. Sea Alarm has therefore developed two different serious game packages: WildX and OneX. WildX games focus on the nature of wildlife aspects in a marine pollution scenario. OneX focuses on the evolution of marine incidents and helps players get to grips with the consequences of those marine emergency scenarios both at sea and on the shoreline.
OneX and WildX invite participants to discuss response options, and in the process, to develop new insights about their own role and that of other stakeholders.
More information can be found in the dedicated Serious Games page here.