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Manua input < presentation other member of the crew employed by the owner. Those involved with the drafting of this regulation were clearly of the opinion, or had learned through hard experience that ships' masters were subject to the temptations of falsehood, fabrication and tampering, spinning or otherwise embellishing the logbook to ensure it enhanced one perspective to the exclusion of all others.

Now it appears history is repeating itself with confidence being lost in the efficacy and veracity of logbooks com- pleted by ships' navigators. Presumably this is why IMO has recently determined the need to intervene; the latest amend- ments to SOLAS requiring each ship maintain a logbook, in English (SOLAS

Chapter V, Regulation 28).

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IMO issuing instruction on how its nav- igators should complete a logbook is Above: The fleetmaster system. Right: Using the system onboard the Berge Clipper.

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