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Original Creation - 20-1-2014   Operating a ship is all about TEAM WORK and it works best with Transparency and Openness Anything behind closed doors promotes suspicion, rumor- mongering and guessing games. Typical secrecies occasionally observed on board would be senior operational level Engineers and Officers withholding information from juniors just to protect their SUPERIORITY and importance.. -- Juniors Officers/ Engineers withholding operational level defects observed during watch keeping from their seniors, for whatever the cause or FEAR. -- Information on Some special TRICKS involved with operating/ starting certain equipment’s may often be held up ones sleeve to gain importance as an EXPERT. But withholding information about these tricks may  not only spoil the TEAMWORK environment which is required but may also backfire at the person practicing these methods. Nobody wants to be woken up at 0200 hrs to rectify a fault in Purifier even though one takes pride ...