Tomislav Skračić, MA

Undergraduate English Course for MARITIME MANAGERS

5th Semester

Essential reading:

 T. Skračić, Waypoint, English Textbook for Maritime Students, Pomorski fakultet, Split 2010, Units 22-28  T. Trappe & G. Tullis, Intelligent Business, Longman 2005, Units 12-14

Review

EXERCISE 1 –

SERVICES MARINA BASIC AND ADDITIONAL

Do you think the services listed below the table are...

BASIC SERVICES

sea berths,

ADDITIONAL SERVICES

dock boxes with sewer pump out, access to cable TV and WLAN, beach, boat rental, café with a terrace, casino, crane and travel lift, currency exchange office, diving club, dock assistants, dock boxes with water and power connections, dry berths, fire extinguishers, fuel dock...

EXERCISE 1 –

SERVICES MARINA BASIC AND ADDITIONAL

Do you think the services listed below the table are...

BASIC SERVICES

sea berths,

ADDITIONAL SERVICES

dock boxes with sewer pump out, ... general store, hotel, high-pressure washing, kindergarten, laundry (laundromat), maintaining batteries in winter, moorings, nautical supplies shop, night club, price list, pullies, cradles and wooden pads...

EXERCISE 1 –

SERVICES MARINA BASIC AND ADDITIONAL

Do you think the services listed below the table are...

BASIC SERVICES

sea berths,

ADDITIONAL SERVICES

dock boxes with sewer pump out, ... rent a bike and scooter, repair workshops, restaurant / local cuisine, sailing school, spare parts shop, tennis courts, trips to nearby national park, video surveillance

EXERCISE 2 –

Use the following words to complete the text:

attempt, beaches, devices, fisheries, gear, population, presence, scientists, species, whales.

The South West of England is one of the UK’s best locations for observing ______________, dolphins and porpoises (known collectively as cetaceans). A report in May 2007 found a decline in sightings for some ______________ – in particular the bottlenose dolphin – as well as an increase in the number of dead dolphins washed up on ______________. Sightings of the charismatic bottlenose dolphin have decreased since 1990 and this has caused many ______________ and researchers to believe that we are witnessing a decline in the local ______________.

EXERCISE 2 –

Use the following words to complete the text:

attempt, beaches, devices, fisheries, gear, population, presence, scientists, species, whales.

Entanglement in fishing ______________ is the number one cause of death in stranded dolphins. The report recommends better ______________ management and the deployment of ‘pingers’ on bottom-set gill and tangle-nets. Pingers are cylindrical or banana shaped ______________, 20cm or less in length, attached to fishing nets at regular spacings of 100 to 200m, which emit a ‘ping’ approximately every four seconds in an ______________ to alert the porpoise or marine mammal to the ______________ of the nets.

EXERCISE 3 –

Write 5 sentences using the following structures (verb forms cannot be changed):

a) in line with, b) information on, c) was introduced into, d) at risk, e) will be affected by

EXERCISE 4 –

Translate into English:

a) b) c) d) e) Je li Sabor već o tome raspravljao i kada ti propisi stupaju na snagu?

Premda nautički turizam predstavlja tek jedan segment hrvatske turističke ponude, on ipak zaslužuje posebnu pozornost i prioritet.

Stanje Sredozemnog mora se je pogoršalo budući da su se obalne zone našle pod izrazitim ekonomskim pritiscima.

Dostava, carinska procedura, registracija, postavljanje, vez, osiguranje, održavanje i daljnja tehnička podrška je naša dužnost.

Polog, odnosno jednokratna premija osiguranja, uračunat je u cijenu najma plovila.

THREATS TO MARINE SYSTEMS Direct threats

destructive practises that physically destroy or seriously modify habitats and marine systems

using explosives

(e.g. dynamite fishing, construction…) commercial bottom

trawling overexploitation

( > commercial extinction > true extinction of species)

urbanisation

of coastal areas (e.g. construction of urban areas, industrial facilities, construction or reconstruction of breakwaters, jetties, ports, marinas, laying cables, buoys and moorings across the seabed, dredging…)

Indirect threats

destructive practises, either visible or invisible, that impact the water quality and marine life

oil spills

, release of

pollutants

, runoff of

toxics

due to accidents, nautical tourism, traffic or activities in ports, marinas, boatyards...

solid

waste

,

sewage

,

noise

, etc. due to traffic, coastal development, shipping, boating… introduction of

alien species

(ballast waters, yachting…)

overharvest

fishing due to commercial loading of the marine system with

discards

(including fish processing waste and by-catch) excessive

fertilisation changes in hydrology

EXERCISE 4 –

Discussion. In your opinion, what are the most serious threats to marine ecosystems in the Adriatic? What can we do about it?

( Key elements : incentives, fines direct / indirect threats, fishing, shipping, tourism, MPA, development, prevention, proactive planning, regulations, integrated management, tools / instruments, …)