# Bridge Resource Management certification **URL:** \ **Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\ **Created:** [January 24, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bridge-resource-management-certification/47134 "2018-01-24T22:21:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![Kennebec\_Captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kennebec_captain/32/13_2.png) [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bridge-resource-management-certification/47134/12 "2018-01-25T19:17:17Z")
> [@tugsailor](#): > > Although it was fun to play with the simulators, like most STCW courses, I did not think that it had much value, certainly it wasn’t worth what I paid for it. All the BRM type classes I took were next to worthless. I learned about human factors from reading non-fiction best sellers I picked up at the airport bookstore. The issue is that the instructors don’t have a clue. For some reason it was decided that retired box boat captains and washed up pilots would make good instructors. For example why was the subject of [mitigated speech](http://forum.gcaptain.com/t/mitigated-speech/46923) never discussed? The instructors strongly gave off the impression they thought the whole thing was new age kumbaya nonsense. It’s head up the ass, pompous guys like them that are exactly the problem. EDIT: Ok, next to worthless is too strong, I recall the “drunk bos’n in the wheelhouse while navigating in a tight spot” scenario, that had some value later. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bridge-resource-management-certification/47134)._