1 STCW Overview
1 STCW Overview
SEVERELY LIMITATED
Vague requirements that were left to the discretion
of parties to the Convention.
Increasing problems with:
Ø Standards of competence
Ø IMO oversight of compliance
Ø Port state control inclusion
Ø Provisions for new development
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The need for IMO was made more urgent after a close series
of sea mishaps happened with the grounding of the M/V
BRAER in the Shetland Islands on January 5, 1993 .(a month
after the December 3, 1992 M/V AEGEAN SEA incident.)
Two years earlier, in 1990, 158 people had died as a result of
a fire on board the S/S SCANDINAVIAN STAR.
It was also determined that competency and training played a
major role in those incidents
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