Ivan put the final touches to his first Master's Standing Orders carefully leaving space at the end for the deck officers to each sign that they had read and understood them. Reading them through, he was pleased with his work. For so long it had been his role as a junior officer to read and sign such documents and now it was his turn to put his stamp on the way a ship, his ship, was going to be run. He had carefully considered what aspects of good navigational practice he would include and, to help him, he had consulted the course manual he had received when he had undergone his most recent training: a course in Bridge Resource Management at the ship management company's own simulator training unit. The company ISM auditors would be impressed that he had cut and pasted key aspects of the training into his orders.
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