AUS-EC3-L4.1

The chief engineer, and the relationship with the master

AUS-EC3-M4 · Chief on a Near-Coastal Ticket · AUS-EC3-M4-A Responsibility, compliance, casualty

As chief engineer you own the machinery. Not the maintenance of it — the state of it. Whether it runs, whether it is safe, whether it will still be running at the end of the voyage, whether it complies, whether the people working on it are competent to do so. You do not get to say that nobody told you.