I'm Lieutenant Claire McIntosh and I'm an Officer of the Watch
or Maritime Warfare Officer onboard
HMAS Darwin.
Officer of the Watch manoeuvers involve manoeuvering
the ship within 500 yards of another ship.
It's precise station-keeping where we're
reporting to the Captain for the meter
of where we're aiming and we're turning
wheeling and forming all while under way.
Doing Officer of the Watch
manoeuvers with another country is a
great experience and a great opportunity.
It means you get to see how another
country handles their ship and we learn
to adapt to a different way of driving a
ship because not everybody around the
world learns the same way we do.
So it means that we're always perfecting
our technique and learning something new.
