NEPTUNE is currently organized in 13 chapters, of gradual difficulty. these chapters correspond to those of the
Maritime English Basics handbook, that I have edited, for Officers Of the Watch. This is a collective work, written by the professors of
Ecole Navale, the French Naval Academy, and used for all OOW courses at
Ecole Navale.
The chapters are as follows:
- ABC, 123
- Sailors and Mariners
- In port
- ships
- Welcome on board!
- On a sea chart
- Movements and position
- Welcome to the bridge!
- The weather ans shipping forecast
- Health matters
- VHF: basics
- VHF: Routine conversations
- VHF: Priority conversations
On top of these 13 chapters, the program also contains an appendix where sentences from the SMCP (Standard Marine Communication Phrases) are gathered by theme (pilotage, entering port, weather, etc). Each sentence is recorded and can be listened to for correct pronunciation, and all sentences are integrated in a tool that can be used to memorize them.