Radio EnglishLaajuus (2 cr)

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to communicate via VHF radio onboard a ship in routine, urgency and distress situations using standardised terminology and phrases (IMO SMCP).

Content

The course covers the following sections of SMCP handbook:
- general procedures
- selected standardised terminology
- selected standardised phrases (e.g. traffic in fairway, port entry and departure, anchoring, weather and sea state, buoyage)
- urgency and distress communication

Qualifications

Participation in this course requires that the student has completed the courses Maritime English, Master mariner English 1 and Master mariner English 2, or is simultaneously completing them.

Materials

- General Operator´s Certificate, GOC
- Simulator training at the management level 1
- Approved training during studies

Accomplishment methods

Students can
- use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations
- look for information in the key information sources of the field
- evaluate operations in customer, user and target group situations
- choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices

In addition, competence evaluation according to STCW code table A-II/1 column 4 are used:
- English language nautical publications and messages relevant to the safety of the ship are correctly interpreted or drafted
- communications are clear and understood