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Job Description
Supervise or coordinate activities of crew aboard ships, boats, barges, or dredges.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 53-5021.02
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Mates- Ship, Boat, and Barge”.
Also Known As…
- Mates- Ship, Boat, and Barge
- Vessel Master
- Tugboat Mate
- Relief Mate
- Relief Master
- Mate
- First Mate
- Deckhand
- Deck Engineer
- Able Bodied Tankerman (AB Tankerman)
- Able Bodied Seaman (AB Seaman)
- Third Officer
- Skipper
- Ship, Boat, or Barge Mate
- Second Officer
- Second Mate
- Sailing Officer
- Maritime Officer
- Fourth Officer
- Fourth Mate
- Fishing Vessel Mate
- First Officer
- Ferry Terminal Agent
- Dredge Mate
- Dock Hand
- Deck Cadet
- Boatswain's Mate
Tasks for “Third Mate”
- Observe loading or unloading of cargo or equipment to ensure that handling and storage are performed according to specifications.
- Determine geographical positions of ships, using lorans, azimuths of celestial bodies, or computers, and use this information to determine the course and speed of a ship.
- Participate in activities related to maintenance of vessel security.
- Stand watches on vessels during specified periods while vessels are under way.
- Inspect equipment, such as cargo-handling gear, lifesaving equipment, visual-signaling equipment, or fishing, towing, or dredging gear, to detect problems.
- Assume command of vessels in the event that ships' masters become incapacitated.
- Supervise crews in cleaning or maintaining decks, superstructures, or bridges.
- Supervise crew members in the repair or replacement of defective gear or equipment.
- Arrange for ships to be stocked, fueled, or repaired.
- Steer vessels, using navigational devices, such as compasses or sextants, or navigational aids, such as lighthouses or buoys.
- Observe water from ships' mastheads to advise on navigational direction.
Related Technology & Tools
- Electric deck cranes
- Electric telegraphs
- Long range navigation LORAN systems
- Sheave blocks
- Steam winches
- Screw displacement pumps
- Radio direction finders RDF
- Thermal protective aids TPA
- Parallel rules
- Navigational compasses
- Container lift trucks
- Hydraulic capstans
- Safety glasses
- Pilot ladders
- Portable carbon dioxide fire extinguishers
- Chain cargo falls
- Bridge to bridge radiotelephones
- Life buoys
- Gear pumps
- Hand windlasses
- Line throwing appliances
- Drafting triangles
- First aid kits
- Personal computers
- Ship alarm systems
- Firefighting suits
- Immersion suits
- Parallel plotters
- Emergency fire pumps
- Hydraulic mooring winches
- Rotary displacement pumps
- Centrifugal cargo pumps
- Mooring cables
- Magnetic compasses
- Mooring chains
- Fathometer sonar equipment
- Voice pipes
- Respirators
- Sounding tapes
- Fire alarm switches
- Dynamic positioning DP systems
- Emergency generators
- Echo sounders
- Carbon dioxide CO2 flooding systems
- Pyrotechnic distress signals
- Lifeboat davits
- Safety helmets
- Hydraulic deck cranes
- Sextants
- Lifting spreaders
- Manual winches
- Desktop computers
- Foam fire extinguishing systems
- Global positioning systems GPS
- Electric mooring winches
- Life rafts
- Semaphores
- Electronic chart display and information systems ECDIS
- Rescue slings
- Mechanical telegraphs
- Ultra high frequency UHF radiotelephone systems
- Synthetic mooring ropes
- Natural fiber mooring ropes
- Dividers
- Lifting slings
- High frequency HF radiotelephone systems
- Magnet hoists
- Ship's whistles
- Very high frequency VHF radiotelephone systems
- Life vests
- Signal lights
- Portable dry chemical fire extinguishers
- Global Navigation Satellite System GNSS
- Safety belts
- Hand capstans
- Sounding rods
- Grabbing cranes
- Electric windlasses
- Integrated bridge systems
- Differential global positioning systems DGPS
- Carbon dioxide CO2 fire extinguishing systems
- Totally enclosed motor propelled survival craft TEMPSC
- Steering control systems
- Portable water fire extinguishers
- Gyrocompasses
- Ship anchor chocks
- Cargo derricks
- Safety lanyards
- Surveillance binoculars
- Automatic radar plotting aids ARPA
- Hydraulic windlasses
- Signal flags
- KNMI TurboWin
- Jeppesen Marine Nobeltec Admiral
- Log book software
- Computerized maintenance management system CMMS
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