SuperRonin: PSC deficiency codes, guides and a news page of its own

Until today SuperRonin's news lived on Skydex, the ship and aircraft tracking site it grew out of. Superintendents don't read a spotters' site, so the posts now live here at superronin.com/news. The earlier ones moved with their dates; Skydex keeps a short note that points here.

Three new sections came with it.

PSC deficiency codes. superronin.com/psc/codes lists all 587 harmonised codes a port State control officer writes on Form B, grouped by area: certificates, structure, fire safety, life-saving appliances, navigation, MARPOL, ISM, the MLC and the rest. The MoUs publish the list as a PDF; here it's one page with a filter box, so typing "lifeboat" or "07109" finds the line.

Thirty codes that come up often on reports have their own pages: what the inspector looks at, typical findings, the rule behind the item, the action taken codes you are likely to see and what evidence closes the deficiency. The rest are rows in the list for now. We'd rather add pages one at a time than publish 587 pages that say nothing beyond the title.

Guides. Four to start with: what the action taken codes mean (10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 30), what to do after a detention, how the ship risk profile decides how often you are inspected and a checklist for preparing a ship. Each one lists the documents it relies on.

Who checks them. These pages describe rules people act on, so the plan was for a superintendent from the pilot to read every text before it went into search results, with each page kept out of the index until then.

Update, 6 November 2026: the superintendent asked us to publish the texts without waiting for a read-through and to correct them as discrepancies turn up in use. Every code page and guide is now in search results. Each one lists the sources it relies on, and a page someone has checked says who did it and when. If a text doesn't match what you see on board, write to [email protected] and we'll fix the page.

Every code page and guide links to the register. When a Form B arrives, the PSC inspections register takes the deficiencies with their codes, and one click turns each into a condition with the due date its action code gives, so someone in the office owns it and the bell rings before the date.

If a code you meet often has no page yet, write to [email protected] and it goes to the front of the queue.