Marine Survival Training Center

The Marine Survival Training Center was established through industry donations and is a self-funded department of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. MSTC trains personnel from the petroleum, aviation and maritime industries in emergency procedures and use of the lifesaving equipment available to them. Our mission is to provide the best marine safety training in the world by using state-of-the-art facilities and experienced, motivated instructors. The center employs approximately twenty highly qualified full and part-time personnel. The MSTC conducts approximately 10,000 student training days a year and has trained over 70,000 individual students since its inception in 1989.