Nice shots. I was on board twice on this tanker as C/O on 2004-2005. Does she still have Raytheon radars? These ones seems to be different. When the vessel was brand new until one year old we had a lot of hiccups on these radars so much that the technician was coming on board very often.

Bob, I addressed you, who as "layman" in this respect made a comment with no knowledge about a situation or reality on nowadays bridges. Ever noticed that when the danish CG chasing down again a drunk officer or Master usually find them asleep in those very same chairs which you seemingly mix up with high tech navigation. you have to do better then that my friend. no offense meant,,but as long you not been on bridges where officers do not know anymore what a sextant is or can only compute a ETA via GPS or take bearings only via ECDIS etcetc !!!!
I then dare to say that you don,t know what you talk about. And of course here are plenty of people who know a lot of things what I don,t know, but that means not that those very same people ever been on a bridge of a ship and know what they in reality talk about. A certain GOOGLE-knowledge is fine, but can,t beat 28 years as master on a bridge,, never mind what kind of vessels.
if you have such a great knowledge in our profession then may be you can explain me why the groundings and collisions etc increased since ECDIS was placed on the ship WITHOUT training the peoples aboard before placing such high tech gadhets on bridges. Now the nautical world scambles to get us all back to school for it.
I gave you a simple reason,, that officers in charge should not sit around during duty. I wrote even to use Radars etcetc , if you construing out of that, that I am adverse to new technology that,s your business. New technology is good, as long it is used responsibly and when a "laymen" like you (in this matter) for a bridge on a vessel wants to tell me that, that is wrong, that I am telling my officers to "look out of the window" and not only sit around and staring into ECDIS,,which 60-70 % of officers do, then I can say only,,you never been on a bridge with millions of Euros worth under your feet and responsible for the behaving and knowledge and professional behavior of people who coming out of a STCW convention training system which is by now a kind of farce,, comes to mind: lower the standard.

Bob,, I had a officer on bridge not 3 years ago who let pass the sun over the north pol somtime during the years run, and believe me, that is not seldom.
so lay down an relax,, good when one gets older, like me and you :-)

Ted: You should be careful not to underestimate or insult the intelligence of the people you see as 'laymen'. There is a lot of shipping knowledge in the membership of this site and, grouped together and pooling that knowledge, I am sure we could teach you a thing or two about the industry you didn't know!
We are all, I am sure, keen to get an insight into a captain's view on things but I feel that, through your apparent Luddite attitude to everything new and high-tech, we are not getting from you a balanced view of the real situation. I know SOME of the points you make are quite valid but, don't you think you go a bit OTT at times?

Bob,,it is rather useless to try to explain to laymen, also whjen a lot peoples here think they know it all on a bridge of a ship, but put it blunt this way, if a OOW is not able to look out of the window, pacing around, checking radar and plotting,, looking around again,,without sitting down and all that on a bridge of a piece of machinery which cost millions and can cause into the billions of damages and claims does BLUNTLY said not belong on a bridge of a vessel !!!

:-D :-D Ok then, do the trick: Beam me up, Scotty! (Preferably somewhere where it's warm and sunny 365 days a year and where a lot of ships are sailing by my private beach for me to photograph...)

Jens: An old friend of mine was madly in love with Lieutenant Uhura. He was also very prone to mal de mer. He was often to be seen leaning over the rail, loudly calling her name:"Uhura! Uhura!"
And if you need beaming up, I'm your man!
Cheers
Scotty

How do you do it, Ted? Are you constantly pacing the bridge from wing to wing with binoculars round your neck and a sextant in your hand? Or do you provide your helmsman with a stick with which to prod the OOW when he dozes off in the comfy chair?

This definitely has got something of Star Trek... Where's Uhura???

As nice as this bridge looks, as dangerous those bridges are. Those chairs don,t belong there !!
I know,,a lot peoples will cry now. From that position, all what the OOW can see is the screens, and that is exactly the accident creator no 1, not looking out of the bridge windows anymore. ECDIS is the prime example, as good as it is, that often it pops up that peoples only relied on it. Beside that one finds the officers sleeping
in those chairs.