Crew competence gets highest priority for most sensitive load
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Mar 05, 2009 12:00 AM
Crewing levels on PNTL ships are high, with about 20 seafarers on each voyage, about half officers, half ratings.
This allows deck officers to keep a three watch system of `four on, eight off' as a precaution against fatigue.
In a similar way that we carry equipment that gives us a level of redundancy, we carry crew in...
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