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Originally Posted by Allwyn
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Just early May on a routine inspection, i personally witnessed a Maser supervising the welding of a support bracket for an LRIT antenna while it was drizzling. I got the operation stopped and asked the Master if he had a hot work permit. My company hot work permits have to be signed by Master. Here he signed it and did not realize arc welding in the rain is a NO NO.
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You don't need to visit the ship to find the source of your problems, just take a visit down the hall to the
HR department.
I can't even begin to summarize all the problems with your arguments but nearly all unlimited deck officers here in the states have University degrees or military training. Many deck officers on this board deal with equipment more complicated than what's found in their engine rooms ( Dynamic Positioning Systems, LNG cargo, Heavy Lift ballast systems, many others). You can hire these guys in a second but you're going to have to pay 2 times the salaries you are paying now.
You can't generalize on an entire profession because YOU are failing at YOUR job to attract or internally develop competent people. It's like the old joke "Somewhere is located the world's worst doctor and today someone else has an appointment with him." Well somewhere there is the world's worst captain and it sounds to me like he might be on your payroll.
The problem that I have with this thread is that because you are hiring (or promoting, or simply not firing) people that don't have the common sense not to use electrical equipment in the rain.... someone's going to have a bad accident. And do you know what's going to come out of that accident? More stupid regulations with a further transfer of power shoreside personnel with little operational experience! Then, in a few years, when a competent Captain has a problem that's within his ability to deal with, his hands are going to be tied. All because you gave a job to someone who knows little beyond how to pass a license test and you where unwilling (or too dumb yourself) to admit the real problem, so instead you blamed the Capt.
You simply can't do this on the cheap. You NEED to make the difficult choice of spending money to fix the problem.
Bottom line is.... there are thousands of Captain's that are technically proficient and highly intelligent. Why are you not hiring these guys or developing them internally? That's what ISM is all about... managing your talent and resources.