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Passenger-carrying vessels are of course required to have annual inspections
and interim ones as well. Whereas we always had a healthy respect for
safety, it was common practice to leave a couple of obvious things for the CG
inspectors to find, so they wouldn't look for things we didn't want seen. Back
then, the inspections were conducted by personnel from the now-defunct Albany,
NY office: a Commander, his lieutenant and a couple of swabbies. In the 60s &
70s these officers were older men with lots of sea time and practical
experience, one being a deck officer and the other an engineer.
There is a phrase in the CG regs which reads "Nothing in this part shall be
construed so as to prevent the officer in charge from exercising his own
interpretation of them" or words to that effect. That meant that if there were
discrepancies that didn't meet the letter of the law, one could expect to
discuss them with the inspector who would generally accept reasonable
alternatives. I'm afraid those men are gone - not many career Coasties attend inspections
these days; Lieutenants fresh from inspection school are sent instead.
Having been raised on multiple-guess exams and such, everything they see is now
either black or white, with little wiggle room due to their inexperience. And
likely so it is for "surveyors," where we see that many are reluctant to take
exception to the hard-and-fast, leaving the good ones few and far between.
Regards,
John
"Seahorse"
> I too have been frustrated with surveyors who insist that something or
other be changed to "meet ABYC".
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