Where is the crew?

[csaba]

After taking few thousand photos of ships, there are only very few of them where I can see anybody on the deck. Where is the crew? Even when ships are at anchor here in English bay, I almost never see anybody on the deck. What gives?

[Pak Agen]

Duty officer on the bridge
Duty AB sit at chair for duty gangway

all in 4 hours will be changed

[davidships]

and, I think some of our Captains would agree, paperwork, paperwork, paperwork is best not done  in the wind.

[csaba]

Duty officer on the bridge
Duty AB sit at chair for duty gangway

all in 4 hours will be changed

OK, but there are more crew on the ship. Where are they? Why not on deck?

[Pak Agen]

sometimes when attend the agency ship, i see the other crew after duty they're sleep or at crew messroom for sing a song

one or two people on deck for looking social media on mob phone but not so long, signal problem

and Chief cook and the assistant busy at galley room

[smithy166]

It depends on the vessel type and how long they're in port for.

Usually if it's only a short port call everyone will stay on watches, so those off watch will either sleep, go ashore or catch up on maintenance/other tasks - which is why you can't see anyone on deck.
If it's a longer port call then more deckhands will get called up for mooring, or alternatively they'll stay on watches until late that evening, when the nightwatchman will come on duty, and everyone else will switch to daywork.

When at anchor everyone will usually stay on watches, the deck officers certainly.

Ships don't have a lot of crew, either. My last ship had a total crew of 13 including myself, so you haven't got a huge amount of people to start with!

[Pak Agen]

1000 morning
1500 noon

Coffe time