I'm going to power level. I used to work on those sorts of ships, big crude oil carriers too, as an engineering officer. There are 4 engineers typically depending on ship size, 3rd/2nd/1st/chief. Chief does nothing, so 3. Same for "deckies" who sit on the bridge, rest are basically labourers who have no real responsibility, they do as they are told.
You would be amazed how much machinery there is to maintain on a ship. As well as propulsion, there's a power grid, huge boiler for steam, accommodation systems like sewage, air con etc, huge tanks with many thousands of cubic meters of oil and other bad shit, I could go on for pages. It's a lot of work for 3 people, no matter how clever they are.
Indians, without a doubt, are some of the most incompetent, lazy, yet deluded engineers I've ever met. I've met one or two good ones, these were exceptions. They get through marine school by memorising books and plagiarising, get a qualification, then believe they are engineering wizards.
The worst thing is if they ever fuck up a machine or something they will never admit it, priority 1 is keeping it quiet. Or just can't figure out how to fix something so find a way to get around it, badly. Filipinos fucking hate them. Flips are the other overrepresented nationality at sea, but I'd much rather be on a ship full of flips than Indians (I've done both).
I have no doubt that engine room was completely fucked if it was an all Indian crew. One company I worked for made a point of always having a British captain and chief engineer, sometimes 1st/2nds too, if the ship was to be crewed by mainly Indians or Filipinos. Just to make sure there were at least some sort of standards, that maintenance was happening, etc.
This has happened because Indians and Filipinos are so much cheaper than Americans or in my case, bongs. The running costs of an all US crewed ship is insane compared to hiring a ship full of Indians. So gradually costs have been driven down, more company profit, hire cheaper crew.
This isn't because of diversity, it's because people who work in offices who make these decisions are not connected with reality. They really think Pajeet's engineering officer qualification, which can basically be bought in India with the right money, is the same as a time served and qualified American engineer. I'm not saying all westerners are good at it either, retards come in all colours, but you have a much reduced chance of incidents like this with suitably qualified people who don't come from a culture like India's.
Many such cases, sad
