In the new era of 2017 Maritime English is a must for all the seafarers working globally. It is vitally important that those involved in any operational situation communicate effectively.
Maritime English proved to be a very important part of a future navigating officer’s training and it will still gain in importance as long as the shipping industry is in progress. It’s only up to young seafarers to get acquainted with Maritime English as their lives, other crew members’ lives and the ship’s integrity might depend on this particular aspect.
When students that are not native English go on board merchant vessels for the first time to be Apprentice Deck Officers (often called Deck Cadets) they find it hard to learn anything from experienced Officers who are speaking to them in English and also these Officers are not always speaking a correct English.
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As it is well known, most of the maritime accidents happen due to human errors and these occur especially because of bad communication.This is a result of not using standard Maritime English that should be well known by all crew members of a ship, with a special attention drawn towards young Apprentices.
Because the concept of a single nationality crew is no longer met in the world shipping industry, proper communication can be achieved only by using Maritime English focusing especially on young Apprentices as they are the mistakes sensitive ones.
I would like to dedicate this blog to this particular issue for which I would also be referring anecdotes from my experience as a Master and also from various research papers on the subject of Maritime English and discuss how the technology can help in the training of Maritime English.
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