Ship Master: A description for the ship master job
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Ship Master: Ship’s captain Commands ship to transport passengers, freight, and other cargo across oceans, bays, lakes, and in coastal waters: Sets course of ship, using navigational aids, for example charts, area plotting sheets, compass, and sextant, and orders crew worker at helm to steer ship. Determines geographical position of ship, using loran or azimuths of celestial bodies. Inspects ship to ensure that crew and passengers observe regulations pertaining to safety and efficient operation of ship. Coordinates activities of crewmembers responsible for signaling devices, for example ship’s whistle, flashing lights, flags, and radio, to signal ships in vicinity. Calculates landfall (sighting of land), using electronic sounding devices and following contour lines on chart. Avoids reefs, outlying shoals, and other hazards to shipping, utilizing aids to navigation, for example lights, lighthouses, and buoys. Relinquishes command of ship to PILOT, SHIP (water industry) to guide ship through hazardous waters. Signals TUGBOAT CAPTAIN (water industry) to berth ship. Maintains ship’s log. Must be licensed by U.S. Coast Guard for steam, motor, or sail ship according to waters navigated and tonnage of ship. May also be designated according to waters licensed to navigate as Master, Bays, Sounds, And Lakes (water industry), Master, Coastal Waters (water industry), Master, Great Lakes (water industry), Master, Ocean (water industry).
Job industry: water industry
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