The log says normal while the standby function is unresolved

At watch handover, a defect report records an unresolved fault in a standby system identified as critical by the vessel’s actual safety arrangements. An incoming engineer sees a log entry saying all systems normal, but no evidence shows that the defect was corrected or the standby function tested. Another worker proposes bypassing an alarm to reduce nuisance and expects the next watch to infer the condition. The exercise concerns truthful handover, defect evidence and responsible coordination rather than a diagnosis of the specific equipment. It does not establish an acceptable degraded operating mode, flag-state permission or authority for a reader to restore or bypass a real system.