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Company Profile
Meet the Survival Rescue and Safety Training Team
Survival’s professional experience is unparalleled with over 75 years of collective related specialisations. Staff members include a dual registered speciality nurse; an HMCG Search & Rescue Officer/water safety & rescue professional; and, a former registered paramedic/ocean safety & survival professional. All our team possess extensive practical first aid and teaching experience.
SCOTT BRESSOUD
TIM LIPTROT
LIZ BRESSOUD
Scott is a British-American national having over 30 years of collective experience and training in emergency response, general and offshore safety, and commercial diving/hyperbaric safety. His qualifications include advanced emergency paramedicine; internationally recognized certifications in Advanced Life Support; USCG licensed Master (Ocean); closed bell diving and saturation life-support, and various internationally recognized qualifications in offshore safety & survival.
Scott’s professional interests are focused on offshore safety & survival for both recreational and professional mariners. These include IMO and SOLAS regulations (including STCW-95); survival craft (particularly type 1 & 2 rafts); signalling devices including EPIRBs/PLBs and day/night/aerial devices; exposure/immersion suit differences; personal survival techniques; emergency breathing devices (including Category A EBS & CA EBS); general abandon ship/rig protocols, as well as hypothermia/drowning prevention and advanced theory and life support applied to both.
Tim is a native Welsh speaker with over 25 years of related experience in lifeguarding, emergency response, and water safety management as well as over 16 years of teaching experience in lifeguarding and basic life support (BLS).
Tim’s professional knowledge and interests include offshore/onshore water-related rescue; water related safety and lifeguard instruction; in-water personal survival techniques (PST); rescue & survival equipment; pre-hospital emergency care; emergency first-responder training/assessing, and general safety and safety policy writing for small businesses.
Tim is a former Emergency First Responder for Gwynedd County, North Wales, where he is currently an HMCG Search & Rescue Officer. In addition, Tim regularly teaches lifeguarding for the Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS), Coastguard Emergency Response Casualty Care, and proactively participates in HMCG Search & Rescue training exercises.
Tim’s general interests are traveling (particularly within the USA) and physical-fitness; he is a keen “martial artist” with a black belt in Iaido and loves exercising and helping others doing the same. Tim is also a former nationally and highly ranked competitive gymnast.
Liz is a north Wales native and Welsh speaker with over 35 years of nursing experience with dual specialties in paediatric and orthopaedic nursing. She grew up in Holyhead and attended Holyhead High School where she studied pre-nursing.
Liz then went on to complete her nurse’s training at Warrington General Hospital which was followed by an appointment as an RAF Nurse. She later went on to complete her orthopaedic training at Princes Margret Rose Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, and then completed her paediatric training at the University of Bradford in Yorkshire.
Liz’s professional interests include general nursing; paediatric nursing; orthopaedic/peadiatric nursing; general orthopaedic nursing for adults, and emergency first aid (specifically limb immobilization and splinting techniques).
Liz continues her nursing practice at Gwynedd Hospital (BCUHB) in north Wales as a bank nurse where she regularly attends to patients in the paediatric and orthopaedic departments.