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Strategic Maritime Solutions - Boating Safety & Emergency Training


Safety Electronics; Methods of Communication; Communication with Crew; Fire, Flooding, Man Overboard Scenarios; and VHF Radio Training Programs at Multiple Locations

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Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Strategic Maritime Solutions enhances your safety and protects your investments on the water. SMS offers cutting-edge, hands-on communications and boater safety training, and client centric, customized facility and vessel Security planning.

They partner with you, as a recreational or professional member of the maritime community, to ensure you are prepared for anything that can happen on the water. In collaboration with Technical Marine Support, Strategic Maritime Solutions provides real world training that will save your life in an emergency and take the stress out of boating.

Strategic Maritime Solutions specialized courses are on safety electronics, methods of communication, communication with crew, fire, flooding, man overboard scenarios, and VHF radio.

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Training Programs

Boating Safety Training

  • Speaking of Safety (2 hours): Get right to the Point at this two-hour seminar focused on GPS waypoints another vital relationship to Search and Rescue. Learn how to use the safety electronics on your boat before you need them. Learn how first responders use safety electronics to respond to situations. Knowing your position and reporting it accurately is essential to boating safety. 
  • Everyday to MAYDAY (2 hours): By investing two hours in enhancing your ability to communicate, you’ll have more fun every day you spend on the water, understand what you should do during an emergency, and ensure you can save yourself if you ever have to call MAYDAY. Practical, need to know methods to communicate during an emergency on the water and proven techniques that could save your life.
  • Everyday (2 hours):  Invest two hours in your everyday skills and take the stress out of boating by learning how to communicate with your crew, maneuver safely in close quarters and on open water, and anchor off any coast.
  • THAT Day: In two hours, learn just enough about fire, flooding, man overboard scenarios, radio use, and more so you can live to talk about THAT day. Scenario based approach to underway emergency management and learn how to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.

 LAST UPDATED ON Oct 18, 2024