About the Academy

Port Canaveral Maritime Firefighting Academy (PCMA) is a state-of-the art training facility for shipboard personnel and firefighters. Centrally located between Jacksonville and Miami on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, Port Canaveral is next to Kennedy Space Center and 45 minutes east of Orlando. Over the past 20 years, thousands of professional mariners, U.S. Coast Guard and Navy personnel, and professional firefighters have completed courses at the PCMA. PCMA also provides tailored training based on customer requirements and deployable consulting services for all fire program requirements.

Contact

Brian Dennison, Training Director
Port Canaveral Maritime Academy
8970 Columbia Road, Cape Canaveral, Fl. 32920
Tel.: 321-783-4424
Mobile: 321-863-8901
E-mail: bdennison@ccvfd.org

Realistic Shipboard Environment
The Academy uses a 154-foot long, three-deck trainer to simulate shipboard fires. The trainer is a ship mock-up, complete with grated flooring, sleeping quarters, engines, chains, anchors, watertight doors, etc. Multiple computer-controlled simulators produce several types of fires with the smoke and heat typically encountered during ship fires.

LNG Training Facility
In 2019, PMCA will expand to include a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) training facility with equipment to fight a pool fire and fires from equipment used in LNG operations.

High Standards of Instruction
Partnering with 3rd party training providers, courses are taught by experienced, certified instructors and comply with International Maritime Organization (IMO) Standards for Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW), and U.S. Coast Guard, and Bahamas Maritime Authority regulations.

Our Training Partners

https://www.chapman.org/
https://maritimesafetyacademy.com/index.html

U.S. Coast Guard

https://www.atlanticarea.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/District-7/Units/Sector-Jacksonville-Home/

International Maritime Organization

http://www.imo.org/en/Pages/Default.aspx

International Maritime Organization
"Safety of Life at Sea"

http://www.imo.org/en/About/Conventions/ListOfConventions/Pages/International-Convention-for-the-Safety-of-Life-at-Sea-(SOLAS),-1974.aspx