Cliff Downing is your instructor; he currently holds both RYA and MNTB certificates for instructing Sea Survival.

Cliff was a Helmsman and Senior Helmsman with the Royal National Lifeboat for 20 years, and later worked for the Sea Safety side of the RNLI, including the commercial fishing side of sea safety.

Cliff also worked as sales manager for Dunlop Marine, manufactures of liferafts and lifejackets. That is were he gained his experience of the design and trials of liferafts and lifejackets. These are now used during the course.