management of the vessel. not only is he seeing that the watch is being conducted properly but he s making sure that all the commands are being done, that the steward services are being done and that the vessel is on maintaining its course and doing what it s supposed to do during its daily routine. captain has a lot of different jobs. but he s not physically standing there staring the vessel, steering the vessel as most people seem to think. he s not at the helm say as a captain of an airliner. he s generally going about the vessel doing his daily business but overseeing all the operation of the vessel. he is the one who makes all the command decisions. it sounds like he was not on the bridge at this time when the incident happened. so when he arrived at the bridge, he probably found, seems to be, a very chaotic situation. captain, he s ultimately responsible though, even though he wasn t there, he s ultimatically responsible, right, because he isn t the captain. oh, absolutely,