SIRE 2.0 photo repository: the 36-photo template and how to keep it honest

OCIMF numbers every position. The core set (1–33) goes round the ship from the bow to the steering gear:

• Hull (1–6): bow from dead ahead, forward and aft hull on both sides, transom from right astern.
• Forecastle (7–9): port and starboard sides looking to the fairleads, one windlass.
• Main deck (10–19): forward and aft deck condition and pipe rack, a mooring winch’s brake setting, the hose crane (overall and its hoist winch, wire and limit switches), the starboard manifold from both directions, the poop deck to starboard with fairleads.
• Emergency gear (20–23): aft emergency towing storage and deployment, lifeboat and davit, emergency generator or batteries.
• Engine spaces (24–33): engine room with the top of the main engine, a generator engine, oil filtering equipment, incinerator, boiler front and top, purifier room, the main engine’s local control station, steering gear room access and the steering gear.
• Cargo type (3 more): oil and chemical tankers 40–42 (IG pressure/vacuum breaker, IG deck seal or double block and bleed, a main cargo pump with the pump-room bilge); gas carriers by template — LPG pressurised 50–52, LPG refrigerated 60–62, LNG membrane 70–72, LNG Moss 80–82 (liquid dome, deepwell pump motors or vapour dome or Moss sphere, compressor room).
• Shuttle tankers (90–95): bow mooring from both directions, hose connection area, hose coupling, bow thruster room and one azimuth thruster.

There are no bridge or accommodation photos in the template. Where the ship does not have an item, the portal lets you mark it “equipment not fitted”.

• Landscape, colour, in focus, JPEG or PNG, 10 MB or less per photo.
• No people in the frame.
• One representative photo where equipment is duplicated.
• Every position filled — an empty position stands out.
• Shoot the ship as the inspector will find her: no fresh-paint-only corners, no staged tidy-up that will not last until the inspection.

Spread the work instead of doing 36 photos the week before the inspection:

• Give each position an owner — deck positions to the Chief Officer’s team, engine spaces to the Second Engineer, LSA/FFA to the safety officer.
• Retake a position as soon as it changes: repairs, painting, new equipment, damage.
• Check the whole set a month before it turns six months old, so nothing expires in the week of an inspection.
• Walk the ship with the photos on a phone. If a space looks worse than its photo, fix the space or retake the photo honestly.

Photos are one part of the pre-boarding package — see the full SIRE 2.0 inspection checklist.