CAPTAIN. Bergen Port Station! Bergen Port Station! This is the Soviet m/v Ingener Ermoshkin calling. The Master is speaking. I have an urgent information to report. My calling letters are UNSB.
BERGEN PORT STATION. This is Bergen Port Station. What can I do for
you?
CAPTAIN. Can you put me through with your Marine Safety Office? I want to inform them about a polluted area.
BERGEN PORT STATION. Roger. Roger. Stand by Channel 14. I'll try to dial their telephone number.
BERGEN MARINE SAFETY OFFICE. This is Bergen Marine Safety Office. Who is calling?
CAPTAIN. Marine Safety Office. This is the Soviet m/v Ingener Ermoshkin calling. On our way we have observed a polluted area.
MARINE SAFETY OFFICE. Can you name the position and nature of the disaster?
CAPTAIN. Our ship's position is 22°17'30" North, 4°32'15" East, by dead reckoning. We are close to the polluted area some cables north-eastward of us. There is a big oil slick.
MARINE SAFETY OFFICE. Can you tell us how big is the slick? CAPTAIN. So far as we can see visually it's a big round slick about a mile
or so in diametre. It extends north-eastward from our vessel.
MARINE SAFETY OFFICE. How far is the spot from your vessel? What is it, in your opinion, crude oil or oil of a lighter grade?
CAPTAIN. It's about three cables ahead of our ship. It's rather hard to say exactly what it is. It's blackish in appearance. It looks like crude oil with some debris on it.
MARINE SAFETY OFFICE. Thank you for your information, Captain. We
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are sending a helicopter and some of our oil skimmers. Wish you the best of luck. CAPTAIN. We wish the same to you.
LABORATORY EXERCISES
I. Listen to the text of the lesson again and answer the following questions:
1. How is the volume of international transportation of cargoes growing during the last 3 decades? 2. How many times more has it grown nowadays as compared with 1950? 3. Does the number of transport vessels grow in proportion to the increased volume of cargoes? 4. Was it necessary to coordinate the activities of so many vessels and how it could be done? 5. Who was faced with this problem and when? 6. What organization was formed to solve this problem? 7. How many countries are now the members of the IMO? 8. When do the IMO's regulations become a compulsory law? 9. On whom is the liability imposed for strict observance of these regulations? 10. Why so much attention is paid to pre venting pollution at sea? 11. Is pollution harmful only to people? 12. Who is to see to effective execution of IMO's Regulations? 13. What for have special organizations been established? 14. What is the staff of these organizations entitled to do?
II. Ask your partner questions and make him give brief answers using the model.
Model: If you had not violated the Port Regulations, no penalty could have been imposed on you.