Program Description

The department vision is to perform extremely well as one of the best international and professional GMDSS’ courses provider regionally and internationally. In addition to providing the highest level of learning and training quality for maritime radio equipment’ operators/users of the different categories such as SAR stations/units’ staffs, Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) stations/centers’ staffs and the GMDSS trainers, whom work in land station or on-board vessels at different sailing areas, through lectures and participating in interactive GMDSS simulator exercises. Trainees who have successfully completed those courses will operate the GMDSS equipment safely and efficiently in different situations especially distress, and SAR operations. In addition, the GMDSS certificate holders need refreshment courses to be fully up to date, and fully aware of the most recent equipment or conventions changes. In order to standardize the language used in communication between different crews’ members and in the different situations, such as Sea navigation, docking or leaving ports, in shipping lanes and ports or onboard ships. Considering that, those communications are between crews’ members of several nationalities. Hence, the department presents the “Standard Maritime Communication Phrases (SMCPs) course to achieve this goal. Another objective of the department’s courses intends to give the attendances basic theoretical knowledge and practical skills enough to be familiar with the maintenance of marine radio and electronic equipment. All of these objectives achieve by comprehensive list of courses which are designed and developed by the department staff guided by the IMO references and the model courses.