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Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels

Transportation and Material Moving Occupations · Job Skills & Competencies · SOC 53-5021 · 47 skills

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  • Direct courses and speeds of ships, based on specialized knowledge of local winds, weather, water depths, tides, currents, and hazards.
  • Prevent ships under navigational control from engaging in unsafe operations.
  • Serve as a vessel's docking master upon arrival at a port or at a berth.

O*NET task statements are shown in their source language (English). Task data excerpted from the O*NET® 29.1 Database (USDOL/ETA) and used under CC BY 4.0.

Representative sources

A bounded sample of popular skills mapped to this occupation, with at most one Skill from each GitHub repository. The complete mapped list follows.

opencpn
51
javimoschjavimosch/supercli
OpenCPN navigation
maritime-operations
21
lionelsimailionelsimai/claude-skills-collection
Design maritime operations. TRIGGERS - Use when user needs help with maritime-operations related tasks.
sea-navigation
14
Colin4k1024Colin4k1024/hermesx
Navigate the high seas using stars, compass, and nautical charts. Pirate-style navigation for treasure hunting voyages.
ship-captain
14
wonsukchoiwonsukchoi/domain-experts
Use when a task needs the judgment of a Ship Captain / Deck Officer — determining give-way/stand-on status and the required collision-avoidance action in a crossing, overtaking, or head-on encounter, calculating available stability (GM) margin before a heavy-weather passage or a loading change, correcting a dead-reckoning track for set and drift, assessing STCW rest-hour compliance and watch-bill fatigue risk, or deciding whether to escalate a bridge situation to the master under Bridge Resource Management practice.

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