This 3-day course is designed to equip seafarers the communication and language skills in maintaining safety of life and property at sea and in preventing marine pollution. Given the international character of the maritime industry, the reliance on voice communications from ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore, the increasing number of multinational crew, and the concern that crew members should be able to communicate with other people in an emergency, adoption of a common language for maritime communications would promote safe practice by reducing the risk of human error in communicating essential operation.