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This article deals with the theme of verbal and non-verbal communication of crew members of the cruise ships, in the concrete with its ethnical and professional versions. First of all the authoress tries to describe how different cultures perceive the reality through the way how they use English and what kind of cultural behaviour's traits does it indicates. After that she analyses similarities in perception and even in the way of thinking of crew members of different ethnicity, which developed on cruise ships due to the same shared life called by them 'ship life'.