[QUOTE=Kennebec Captain;94570]Of the couple of articles I’ve seen this one is by far the best. The link didn’t work butthe article can be found here (pdf)
It’s a little heavy on organizational failure jargon but I thought it was on the money. Breaks down in 6 errors starting with voyage planning to the last shiphandling error.
Overconfidence.
K.C.[/QUOTE]
Yes. Good comment 
And a good report, which could easily have had the alternative title “How to run a ship in a very confused and unprofessional manner”.
From the report:
“The Junior OOW was assisting him [Senior OOW] fixing the ship’s position on paper
charts, which has to be considered with priority over the INS route monitoring. The JOOW could not correctly
monitor the approach to Giglio Island, firstly because there were no routes drawn on larger scale charts than
1:100.000, and secondly because she left the chart table to assist the helmsman when the Captain took the
command of navigation. From that moment on, no primary route monitoring was carried out on the bridge.
Assisting the helmsman instead of monitoring the route at the chart table was probably an informal practice,
but functional to overcome the language barrier existing between the helmsman and the rest of the team.”
It’s laughable if it were not so tragic.