As a chief engineer you are reviewing the engine room logbook. You must ensure that all entries are made properly. What should be your criteria for how a watch officer makes a correction to an incorrect log entry?

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The incorrect entry should have a thin line drawn through the error and be initialed by the person making the correction so that the incorrect entry is still visible.

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The new correct entry should be written directly on top of the old incorrect entry making every effort to cleverly disguise the incorrect entry.

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The incorrect entry is to be completely erased and the new correct entry written on top of the erasure so no evidence remains of the incorrect entry.

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The incorrect entry should be completely obliterated and the new correct entry made just below the obliterated incorrect entry.

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