• Many years of work have greatly contributed to trouble-free sailing
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Secondly, it is the continuous improvement of your own knowledge and experience. There is a rapid renewal of the technical means of navigation, and only the captain-mentor, who has absorbed everything new, is able to deeply analyze the work of boatmasters on the use of these means, summarize the most effective working methods and implement them.

It is necessary to eliminate in the most decisive way the practice when navigation is carried out using modern technology, but outdated methods.

Thirdly, it is the education of the ability to deeply analyze accidents both on ships of its group, shipping companies, and in the industry as a whole.

From the particular circumstances and reasons associated with specific cases, it is necessary to be able to make generalizations and conclusions that would show the cause-and-effect relationships between the actions of captains and other participants in the maritime safety system, and then make it possible to develop practical measures to eliminate the conditions and causes of accidents. Today, such work is especially relevant, since navigation remains the predominant type of accident. In 1988, 76% of the 38 accidents in the transport fleet were related to navigation reasons, and an even higher proportion of navigation accidents was 84%.

The captain-mentor should play an ever-increasing role in ensuring trouble-free navigation on the approaches to ports. An analysis of technical and organizational deficiencies, supported by the opinion of captains, pilots, and operators of vessel traffic control centers, should influence the development of measures to improve navigation safety in these difficult areas.

Every captain-mentor should be an active and skilful participant in the promotion of maritime safety, speak in print with his analytical or critical notes, tell about the experience of the best shipwrights, and be a constant and welcome guest among the cadets of maritime educational institutions.

Ensuring the safety of navigation should be regulated by certain regulatory documents, rules, and guidelines based on the requirements of international conventions and domestic experience. But in order for such documents not to become a brake on work over time, we must constantly work on their improvement. Who should give the most useful and business-like suggestions? The captain is a mentor and a captain. Even now, we need to work together to understand the documents that regulate the structure and organization of the maritime safety service, the rights, duties and working methods of the captains-mentors.

Everything that has been discussed here summarizes the practice of the most proactive and creative mentor captains, takes into account the results of discussions of existing problems at regional meetings on maritime safety, suggestions and criticism contained in letters from sailors to the Ministry, newspapers and the Marine Fleet magazine.

For example, a report on the board of the captain-mentor of the Novorossiysk Shipping Company, P. Usachev, provided a lot of useful and instructive information for determining the nature and content of the work of the captain-mentor, as well as criteria for selecting specialists for this position. His long-term work with the same group of large-tonnage vessels has greatly contributed to their trouble-free navigation. Deep professional knowledge and extensive captain's experience, the ability and desire to work creatively, an analytical approach to any problem, perseverance in implementing his ideas, constant attention to the selection of personnel for the group's ships, and their further training — this is not a complete list of those factors that contributed to the success of his work. It is worth adding that P. Usachev skillfully transfers his knowledge and experience to future specialists, being an associate professor at NWIMU.

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