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  In a way the system of week on/week off, or in my case two weeks on/two weeks off, makes little sense. It has been around for a long time now and most people know no different. A Chief Officer said to me the other day "do you know that they used to have four crews for each ship!"
  
  I pointed out to him that we still do. There are the equivalent of two crews living onboard - two Masters, two Chief Engineers, etc, down the line - with one half working twelve hours a day and the other half working the remaining twelve hours. Then there are the equivalent of two crews ashore on leave. It is just that each pair of crews are integrated into one crew so the ship is said to have a total of two crews when it is really the equivalent of four.
  
  The director who initiated this, in a company which no longer runs from Dover, was given a quarter of a million pound bonus, so I am given to believe.

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