How do they match: Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels

  • Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels

  • Direct or coordinate crew members or workers performing activities such as loading or unloading cargo, steering vessels, operating engines, or operating, maintaining, or repairing ship equipment.
  • Direct courses and speeds of ships, based on specialized knowledge of local winds, weather, water depths, tides, currents, and hazards.
  • Consult maps, charts, weather reports, or navigation equipment to determine and direct ship movements.
  • Operate ship-to-shore radios to exchange information needed for ship operations.
  • Signal passing vessels, using whistles, flashing lights, flags, or radios.
  • Steer and operate vessels, using radios, depth finders, radars, lights, buoys, or lighthouses.

  • Direct maintenance or repair activities.
  • Direct material handling or moving activities.
  • Direct passenger or freight transport activities.