# Vessel Personnel with Designated Security Duties (VPDSD) (MARTPT-747)

Course number: 567
Provider: Maritime Professional Training (MPT)
Duration: 1 days
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Source: https://www.mptusa.com/course-details/vessel-personnel-with-designated-security-duties-vpdsd-vspsd-pdsd-course-567
Export generated: 2026-10-19T15:17:22Z (not a course revision date)

## Overview


## Course description
This Maritime Security course is for all seafarers that have security duties as part of their job. The course is 8 hours in length and is typically offered in one day. This fulfills the STCW as amended requirement for VSPSD in accordance with STCW VI/6 for vessel security for personnel with security duties. If you are a Ship Security Officer please see course #171. This class often runs until 1800 (6pm).
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There are no prerequisites for this course.**

**Overview:** Vessel Security for Personnel with Security Duties (VSPSD) is 1-day course.

**USCG APPROVAL PROVISIONS:**

** **Has successfully completed Vessel Personnel with Designated Security Duties (VPDSD) (MARTPT-747) course satisfying:

- The VPDSD training requirements of 46 CFR 12.625(a)(1); AND

- The VPDSD standards of competence required by STCW Code Section A-VI/6 paragraph 6 and Table A-VI/6-2, as amended 2010, meeting the National Assessment Guidelines from NVIC 21-14.

This course is accepted by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) UK and the Marshall Islands and includes.

**Course Length:** 8hrs

**Course Objectives: **The Vessel Security for Personnel with Security Duties (VSPSD) course is an instructor-led course and will cover the following:

- Knowledge of current security threats and patterns

- Recognition and detection of dangerous substances and devices

- Recognition of characteristics and behavioral patterns of persons who are likely to threaten security

- Techniques used to circumvent security measures

- Crowd management and control techniques

- Security-related communications

- Knowledge of emergency procedures and contingency plans

- Operation of security equipment and systems

- Testing, calibration, and maintenance of security equipment and systems, both ashore and at sea

- Inspection, control, and monitoring techniques

- Relevant provisions of the Vessel Security Plan (VSP)

- Methods of physical screening of persons, personal effects, baggage, cargo, and vessel stores

- The meaning and the consequential requirements of the different MARSEC Levels

- Familiarity with all relevant aspects of the TWIC program and how to carry them out

## Prerequisites
none



## Required materials
Passport, Pencil, Paper or Notebook

## Class dates, prices, and enrollment
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