oceanmust

Everything your ship knows, answering on board.

OceanMust is an offline assistant for ship's officers. It links inspection questions to the rules behind them, fills port and charterer forms from your ship's own data, and remembers how every breakdown was fixed.

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The knowledge is already on board. It's just scattered.

Inspection questionnaires sit in one folder, the SMS in another, manuals on a shared drive. The fix for last year's compressor fault left the ship with the engineer who signed off.

So every inspection, every terminal questionnaire and every handover starts from scratch. OceanMust keeps it in one place and lets officers ask for it in plain words.

What's on board

The first release covers the three jobs that take the most time before and after port calls.

Vetting assistant

Every question from SIRE, CDI, USCG and port state control checklists, linked to the convention, code, class rule and SMS procedure that answers it, with citations.

"What will the inspector check on fixed gas detection, and where does our SMS cover it?"

Forms assistant

One verified record of your ship's particulars, certificates and equipment. Port, terminal and charterer forms are pre-filled from it, and officers check before sending.

"Pre-fill the terminal questionnaire for the next port from our ship data."

Failures network

A searchable history of equipment faults and how they were finally fixed, by maker and model. Ask superintendents, makers and crews on ships with the same equipment.

"High discharge temperature on the cargo compressor. Who has fixed this on the same model?"

Also on board

Vessel assistant
Drafts emails and reports from the facts you give it, in your company's format.
Observations tracker
Known inspection observations, each with a responsible officer and its own check interval.
Handover notes
Instructions, circulars and open items pinned for the next officer in your rank.
Officer notes
Port procedures, anchorages and seasonal requirements you don't want to forget next time.
Study and training
Worked methods for gyro error, true wind, cargo calculations and equipment calibration.

How it works

A small server on board does the work. The shore side keeps shared libraries up to date.

On board

  • Runs on a compact computer in the ship's office
  • Works with no internet connection at all
  • Officers use it from phones, tablets and laptops over ship Wi-Fi
  • Company SMS, ship data and crew records stay on the ship

Ashore

  • Updated questionnaires, regulations and circulars sent to every ship
  • Shared library of observations, failures and port notes
  • Contributions are anonymised before they leave the ship
  • Superintendents can answer questions from the fleet

Working rules

Designed on the bridge of a gas carrier, by a master who fills in these forms himself.

OceanMust starts from real inspections, real port calls and real breakdowns, and is tested at sea before it reaches your fleet.

Bring OceanMust to your fleet

We're looking for a few shipping companies to run the first version on board. Tell us about your fleet and we'll get back to you.

Email hello@oceanmust.com