P2 - Stress Situations by BSM Courses

anastasiia_savluk — 2025-04-19 05:07:36 UTC

”My ship (An oil tanker) had berthed safely around midnight and soon after the ship was cleared by the port authorities, the duty AB announced the arrival of the shell vetting inspector. I was surprised to see him at such odd hours. He informed me that since he had to travel to another port immediately after the vetting of my ship, he couldn’t resist calling on us at such an ungodly hour.

He then gave me his plan of inspection and asked for the chief officer. I requested him to start with other departments, as the chief officer was resting for his forthcoming cargo discharging operation. But he did not relent and insisted on seeing him with records.

I refused to wake up the chief officer who had been busy the entire day and the inspector walked off the ship after heated arguments.”

Captain Pankaj Bhargava on his experiences in a Latvian Port (Marine Insight Oct 19)

Table no-4

2025-07-16 05:04:50 UTC

Master can take over chief officer responsibilities.
Trained 2nd off with chief officers responsibilities
This way we can manage these type of situtation

Table No 3

2025-07-16 05:05:11 UTC

Master should have taken the lead for showing records as requested by vetting inspector.

Table10

2025-07-16 05:05:26 UTC

Master t/o role of c/o

Me being the master would have either shown him the records myself or if insisted would have called the chief officer to assist and later relieve chief officer in the discharging operations by actively engaging the junior officers, thus dealing the situation in a more diplomatic way

2025-07-16 05:05:30 UTC

Table 7

2025-07-16 05:05:50 UTC

The Master could have started the inspection after informing office. With whatever available resources the inspection could have done. The paper work could have been completed. During debriefing the rest hours could have been discussed patiently. Also with the assistance of MSI, Master could have been assisted.

In this case, stepping in place for C/O, Master must have accompanied the inspector alongwith the Duty Officer.

2025-07-16 05:06:09 UTC

2025-07-16 05:06:16 UTC

Table 1

We could have done it differently as:

We all have gone thru the same rank and hence we could have gone with the surveyor for the inspection.
We have filling system, and if we have everything in order I will go along with the inspection.

2025-07-16 05:06:26 UTC

Table2

1) Take over chief officer responsibility

2) Communicate with office

Table 9

2025-07-16 05:07:04 UTC

Master can take the lead and show the records on behalf of ch.off .

Inform office