[QUOTE=Pilot;94875]This could be far reaching, they should also remove the OFFICE from the bridge. To often when piloting ships the Master and mate are both behind the curtain banging away on the computers not monitoring what’s happing outside. Over the years so much non navigational stuff keeps showing up in the wheelhouse. To often the officers are doing other ship board task not relating to navigating the wheelhouse. The bridge needs to return to being the Navigation Bridge not the ships OFFICE.[/QUOTE]
Agreed, but mariners aren’t doing office work for the fun of it. The root cause of this is the increasing work load on ship’s officers. Demand for paperwork comes from various sources customs, immigrations, MARPOL, abstracts, logs, drills,security, the list go on and increases every year. For the most part ship’s crew are considered easily replaceable and have little power to push back against demands for more work.
K.C.