Risks and Benefits of Crew Reduction and/or Removal with Increased Automation on the Ship Operator: A Licensed Deck Officer’s Perspective

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear authors,

Thank you for your exploration of how we can better understand and evaluate risks and benefits of crew reduction caused by increased automation on ships. Here are some suggestions that should improve the quality of your manuscript.

In Abstract: in lines 12 and 13 should be past tense: 'were used …was used'.

In Introduction: in line 46 instead of 'paper' should stay'research' or 'article'. Paper is a  published manuscript.

In Materials and Methods: in the first paragraph, the authors should state HERE what type of survey and the type of interview methods were used in this research. Since this is a scientific journal, the theory of interview and survey has to be mentioned at the beginning of Methods in a qualitative way in a couple of sentences. Two references should prove that this or a similar method was in use earlier and therefore was good to contribute in this research.

In Results: results have to be presented in numbers and percentages as well and should be separated from the 'discussing' comments. Chapter Discussion should commence from line 575. The authors should mention results numbers and percentages more times and emphasize that in Conclusions and in Discussion.

In Conclusion: line 709 – 714; past tense has to be in use since all of that happened already: '…the purpose of theresearch was….approach was used…TT Analysis was…'. Result in percentages should be mentioned with authors' suggestions.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Accept after minor revison.

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