Inspector view: your own visits

The "Inspector view" is for inspections you run yourself, as an inspector, auditor, surveyor or superintendent, on any ship. You type in the ship, start a visit, walk it zone by zone with an inspector’s result words, add notes, evidence and photos, then sign and lock the report. Your ships, visits and reports stay in your own account, separate from the ship, and are not shared with it.

It looks like the rest of SeaReady, with its own menu: "Visits", "My ships", "Ships’ links and copies", "Tools" and "Settings". On a phone these are the tabs along the bottom ("Ships’ links" for short) and "Account and plan" and "Sign out" are the small buttons in the dark bar at the top. On a computer everything is in the dark menu down the side. It has none of the crew screens (no ship file, rest hours, readiness or Mock inspector). Links a Master sends you, invitations, accepted report copies and kept copies of crew answers sit under "Ships’ links and copies"; this page does not cover them.

Anyone signed in can open it. If you chose "As an inspector, auditor or surveyor", the app opens it after sign-in; from a ship account go to Settings → Account & devices → "Inspector view" → "Open the Inspector view". Every check, signing, corrections and PDFs need the "Inspector plan (Officer Pro)", which is the same plan at the same price as Officer Pro (the plan card shows that name when you use SeaReady ashore or as an inspector). Free access from SeaReady at Officer Pro or ship level, SeaReady access that came with an academy course and your own trial also open it fully. The Crew plan or a ship licence alone does not. On the Free plan the Inspector view opens with a sample.

1. Open "My ships" and add each ship by hand: "IMO number", "Ship name", "Type" and "Flag", then tap "Add the ship". SeaReady does not look ships up. The IMO number must have 7 digits and a check digit that matches. If not, the ship is not added and the page says "That IMO number is not valid (its check digit does not match)." With 7 digits that do not match, "Check digit does not match" also shows under the box as you type. Adding an IMO number you already have keeps the ship you added first.
2. Tap "Visits", then "New visit". Choose the "Ship" (with no ships yet, the ship form shows first), the "Inspection", the "Date" (your phone’s date to start with) and the "Port", then tap "Start the visit". SeaReady fills the visit with the checks of that inspection for the ship’s type; you do not pick single checks.
3. The "Inspection" list has "SIRE 2.0", "CDI", "RightShip", "OVID", "IMCA eCMID (offshore)", "BIQ5 (barges)", "PSC self-check" (the Paris MoU list) and "USCG self-check", "Flag inspection (general list)", "Class survey (general list)" and "General audit", plus the complete yacht packs: UK and Red Ensign (REG Yacht Code), Marshall Islands (MI-103), USCG Subchapter T and K small passenger yachts, the Malta Commercial Yacht Code, and, for smaller commercial yachts, the UK Sport or Pleasure Vessel Code (under 24 m) and the Malta Small Commercial Yacht Code (12 m to under 24 m). After them come the Flag, Class and US-flag packs that fit the ship: only those for its "Type" and "Flag" are listed, and a flag SeaReady does not recognise lists none of them. Each is a selected set of checks, not the whole survey, and says so.
4. For a yacht pack the page shows "Ship registry:" with the flag you typed, then asks for the "Inspection / survey kind", the yacht’s particulars (such as "Route / operating area", "Gross register tonnage (GRT)", "Load line length (metres)", "Passengers" and "Year built"; for the USCG pack also "Subchapter from the certificate of inspection", "Inspection option" and "Certificate of inspection reference", which must be filled in) and the "Scope questions", each "Not confirmed", "Yes — confirmed" or "No — confirmed". SeaReady uses these answers to choose the checks that apply. A Flag, Class or US-flag pack shows the "Ship registry:" line, the "Inspection / survey kind" and the "Scope questions" too, with "Survey / authority scope reference" and "Actual survey date confirmed by the authority". The visit does not start, and the page says "Answer every scope question first. If an answer is No, this list does not apply to this ship.", if the ship’s flag does not match the pack’s registry, if the ship’s "Type" is not one the pack covers (choose "Yacht / Superyacht"), if the pack’s main scope question is not answered "Yes — confirmed", or if an answer puts the yacht outside the pack. A Class pack also needs the scope reference and the survey date ("Record the society's scope reference and the actual survey date first."), and a US-flag pack the certificate reference ("Record the certificate of inspection reference first.").
5. Open a visit from the "Visits" list; each card shows the ship, IMO, inspection, port and date, "open" or "signed (version …)", and how far it has got ("… of … looked at", with the percentage and a bar). Each zone is a card with the same progress and its counts of observations and deficiencies. Tap a zone, then tap your result for each check. "Back to the zones" returns to the list.
6. The result words follow the inspection, not the crew’s preparation words. SIRE 2.0: "As expected", "Largely as expected (human response only)", "Negative observation: Human", "Negative observation: Process", "Negative observation: Hardware", "Positive observation" and "Not seen / N/A". PSC, USCG, Flag inspections, the US-flag packs and the yacht packs: "Satisfactory", "Deficiency" and "Not inspected". Class surveys: "Satisfactory", "Recommendation / condition of class" and "Not surveyed". CDI, RightShip, OVID, eCMID, BIQ5 and General audit: "Verified", "Observation", "Deficiency" and "Not verified (give the reason)". Tap the chosen result again to clear it.
7. Once a check has a result it shows "Note", "Evidence sighted (document, number, date)" and "Take a photo" (or upload one). A result saves as you tap it; a note or evidence line saves when you leave the box. Each photo is turned into a smaller JPEG on your phone, which removes its hidden details, and the server cleans it again.
8. Tap "Review and sign" to see the report as it will print. Type "Your name for the signature" and "Organisation", then tap "Sign and lock the report". The box under the ship’s name then shows "Signed version" with its number, the time in UTC and the start of its sha256 code, and the full "Signed report hash (sha256)" sits under the report. Signing needs a connection, with every change sent first.
9. Only a signed report has "Print or save as PDF". To change a signed report, tap "Correct (a new version)": the visit opens again with your answers kept, and when you sign it again it becomes the next version. The list and the report show the latest version.
10. Lost signal? Carry on: the "Visits" list shows the visits saved on this phone, and you can start a visit, tap results, write notes and take photos. The page says "Offline: your changes are kept on this device and sent when you are back online." On a visit you started with no connection it says "Started without a connection. This visit is on this device only until you are back online, when it is sent." If the visit changed on another device in the meantime, it asks which copy to keep: "Keep mine" or "Keep the other device’s".

• Write the document name, number and date in "Evidence sighted" as you see it; it prints with the check. Checks you did not answer print as "Not looked at".
• Dates under a check are two different dates: "Source last checked:" is when SeaReady last checked that check’s official source (with "(re-check due)" when the next check is late), and "Updated:" is when the check’s wording last changed. They are not a promise that the ship complies, and a signed report keeps the dates it was signed with.
• Before you go on board, open "Visits" once while you still have internet so your ships are on this phone, and open each visit you will need so that visit is on this phone too.

• Signing locks the report in SeaReady and records your name, organisation, the time and a sha256 code of its content. It is SeaReady’s record of your own inspection, not a flag, class or authority signature, certificate or approval, and it changes nothing in the ship’s own SeaReady.
• On the Free plan you can answer a sample of the checks in each zone and add a few photos to them, and only your newest open visit can be changed. To start a different visit, delete every open visit first with "Delete this visit" (a visit signed before cannot be deleted). Another open visit, every check, signing, corrections and PDFs open with a plan. Your answers stay saved.
• With the full Inspector view a check keeps up to 10 photos and a visit up to 300; each photo may be at most 5 MB, and an account holds up to 2 GB of visit photos. A visit holds at most 20 signed versions, and an account up to 500 ships and 1,000 visits.
• Needs internet: signing, corrections, the "My ships" page (offline, type a new ship in when you start a visit), deleting a visit already sent, and downloading the OVID, eCMID, yacht and the Flag, Class and US-flag packs. Offline you can open only a visit opened or started on this phone. Signing out clears this phone: if work is not sent yet, SeaReady warns you and tries to send it, and anything it cannot send is removed.
• Earlier signed versions are kept in your account, but these screens show only the latest. A visit that has never been signed can be deleted: open it and tap "Delete this visit" under "Review and sign", then "Delete the visit" to confirm. Its results, notes and photos are removed from your account and this phone, and this cannot be undone. A visit already sent needs a connection and every change sent first. A visit started offline and not sent yet needs no connection: the same button removes it from this phone. A visit signed even once (also while it is being corrected) cannot be deleted, and there is no button to remove a ship.
• SeaReady does not look ships up, fill in findings for you, or send your report to the ship, a vetting scheme, flag or class. Guest links from a Master, invitations, accepted report copies and kept copies of crew answers are explained on the page "Inspector links: invite and share".