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3rd Officer duties?
- Safe Navigational watch
- Maintain LSA/FFA
- Update charts/publications
- Port watchkeeping
- Bonded store
- ISPS duties
- Follow PMS
- GMDSS Radio Officer
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What are the Emission Requirements outside an ECA area?
- 3.5% after 01.01.2012
- 0.5% after 01.01.2020
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Conditions for Discharge from a Tanker Cargo area?
- Not in a special area
- Must be more that 50nm from land
- Proceeding en route
- Rate of discharge not to exceed 30 litres per nm
- Total quantity discharged : before 1979 = 1/15,000
- after 1979 = 1/30,000
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How does MARPOL Annex 1 affect you?
- Follow discharge criteria
- Maintain records on Oil Record Book
- Maintain Oil Pollution equipmen
- Follow & implement SOPEP
- SOPEP drills every 3 months
- Display placards
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Who is the ISM Code mandatory for?
- Cargo Ships
- MODU > 500gt
- All passenger ships
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How do you know ISM is working onboard?
- Vessel will have valid DOC and SMC
- Passes port state inspections
- Complies with standards under ISM Code
- Few near-miss reports
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Gyro Failure onboard. Actions?
- Switch to 2nd Gyro
- If that fails, Call Master
- Raise the alarm
- Steer by Magnetic Compass
- Reduce speed
- Post extra lookouts
- Display NUC lights (if totally disabled)
- Reporting as per Masters instructions
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What is NAVTEX?
- Provides low cost, simple & automated means of recieving MSI
- 518khz = international
- 490khz = national
- Coverage = 400nm
- A - nav warmings
- B - met warings
- D - SAR/piracy warnings
- L - additional nav warnings
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What are the problems with ECDIS?
- Training (not properly trained)
- Data sometimes not displayed on layers
- Not every hydrographer updates them regularly
- Not always a smooth transistion from chart to chart
- Hardware/software failures
- Position based from satellite info (errors)
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What are the requirements to go paperless?
- SOLAS states that vessels must have either dual or single ECDIS
- Vessel needs 2 independant ECDIS systems + seperate power supplies
- Charts used to be of IHO standards
- Company to risk assess voyages and send to the MCA
- Vessel should have ENCs to go paperless
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When does the GPS go into DR mode? How can you avoid this?
- When the signal is lost
- Satellite configuration (DOP) is greater than 5
- Enter the GPS set up
- Manually disable the satellite
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How would you set up your RADAR for collision avoidance?
- X-band
- Relative trails
- Relative Motion
- Adjust gain/sea/rain clutter
- Adjust to adequate range
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What is ARPA? Limitations?
- Automatic Radar Plotting Aid
- Must give: course, bearing, cpa, tcpa
- Accuracy: 0.3nm
- Depends on gyro & speed log accuracies
- Have to enter STW
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Contents of Sailing Directions?
- Info for Ports and Coastal nav
- Each book as regulations/navigation for the area covered
- Demographic information for countries and ports
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What is IAMSAR? Contents?
- International Aeronautical & Maritime Search and Rescue
- 1 - Organisation + Management
- 2 - Mission co-ordination
- 3 - Mobile facilities
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Explain transverse thrust on a right-handed ship
- Propellar moves clockwise
- Sideways thrust of the propellar blades as they rotate displaces water
- Bow moves to PORT
- Stern moves to STBD
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What is a Decleration Of Security?
- A contract between the Ship and the Port
- Used at all security levels
- Details duties of each party for the duration of the Port stay
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When is a Decleration Of Security sent?
- Security level 3
- Ship-to-Ship transfer
- When entering a non-contracting Port
- When security level changes in Port
- When ship level is higher than Port level
- When ship has a security threat
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What is a Risk?
- 2 elements:
- (i) liklihood that a hazard may occur
- (ii) the consequences of the hazardous event
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What is a Hazard?
A source of potential harm/damage
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What is a Risk Assessment?
- Measures to improve health & safety of workers
- Examines all sources of potential harm
- Ensures steps are in place to eliminate risks
- Looking at:
- (i) work activity
- (ii) hazards
- (iii) controls in place
- (iv) crew at risk
- (v) liklihood of risk
- (vi) actions to prevent hazard
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How do you know if charts are corrected?
- Check latest Weekly NtM
- Check latest Cumulative List of NtM
- Check latest Annual Summary of NtM
- Check chart correction log
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What is the Ballast Management Plan?
- When ballasting in USA, Brazil + Ukraine waters
- 200nm from land
- Depth not less than 200m
- If this is not possible, then 50nm from land but depth not less than 200m
- All ships to have a treatment plant by 2017
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What are the sources of Weather Information?
- Radio 4 shipping forecast
- NAVTEX
- Met Office website
- Newspapers
- Fax
- Local VTS reports
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What are the conditions needed for a TRS?
- Latitude between 8 - 20 North and South
- Sea temperature of 26 degrees and above
- No vertical wind sheer
- Islands close by
- Pre-existing disturbace
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What are the warning signs of a TRS?
- Ugly, lurid sky and sunrise and sunset
- Cirriform clouds in thick spiral bands
- An oppresive atmosphere
- Increased humidity
- Change in intensity/direction of Trade Winds
- Pressure 3mb below seasonal average
- Increase in sea swell
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What are the factors taken into account when calculating a Datum point?
- Size of area to be searched
- Available numbers
- Type of assisting craft
- Size of distress craft
- Time of day
- Visibility
- Weather forecast
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What are the contents of a Fire Plan?
- Crew list
- Cargo plans
- GA plan for LSA/FFA
- MSDS
- Bunker tank location
- Emergency contacts
- DG list
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What are the sequence of events for a Freefall lifeboat launch?
- Carry out a risk assessment
- Raise the alarm
- Muster crew + head count
- Ask individual duties of each crew member
- Check lifeboat engines & rudder movement
- Remove batter connection
- Make fast the painter
- Remove lashings from the stern
- Swing davit completely out
- Lower to the waterline
- Crew to go down on a ladder
- Lower boat to the water
- Remove lashing, triangle bar and painter
- Close hatches + drive away
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What are the contents of a SOLAS training manual?
- Explains how to use LSA and FFA equipment
- Contrains manufacturers instructions on equipment
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Explain how the IG system works
- Flue gas produced from Auxillary Boilers
- Enters the scubber tower (cleans + cools the gas)
- Travels up to the demister (removes moisture from gas)
- Gas travels through impingment plates
- 2 blowers push the IG at 125%
- Enters deck water seal (protects ER from HC backflow)
- Enters PV breaker (protects tanks from pressure/vacuum)
- Cargo goes down to tanks
- IG moves to Mast Riser (ventilation outlet)
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What documents are required for DG?
- MSDS
- IMDG Code
- Document of Authorisation
- DG Manifest
- DG Decleration
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How do you use a Masons Hygrometer to find humidity?
- Note dry + wet bulb temperatures
- Find the difference (depression of wet bulb)
- Use rel humidity table, obtain humidity using depression of wet bulb and dry bulb reading
- If both readings are the same = 100% humidity
- If both readings are far apart = much drier air
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What is a Whirling Psychrometer? What is it used for?
- Provides a mechanical draft
- Used in cargo hold
- Can predict ship & cargo sweat
- If the hold humidity is higher than the outside air = CARGO SWEAT
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How do you predict fog?
- Note dry + wet bulb temperatures for a given time
- Find the difference (depression of wet bulb)
- Enter the dew point table (using dry and wet bulb temps)
- Get sea temperature from the ER
- Plot these figures on a graph (time axis)
- Extend the lines - gives predicted time of fog
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6 non-correctable errors of the Sextant?
- Prismatic
- Worm + Rack
- Graduation
- Centring
- Shade
- Collimation
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What is Deviation?
The difference between Compass north and Magnetic North
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What is Variation?
The difference between Magnetic North and True North
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What are the uses of the Magnetic Compass?
- Calculating compass errors
- Obtaining deviation
- Gyro failure
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What is a fall preventor device?
- Prevents lifeboats/FRC from falling o the water in the event of equipment failure
- Not mandatory under SOLAS
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What are your duties under MGN 315?
- In no cirmumstances leave the Bridge
- Responsible for safe navigation
- Notify the master if in any doubt
- No distractions
- Maintain deck log book
- Check vessel position frequently
- Have a helmsman available at all times
- Dont undertake any additional duties
- Ensure hand steering is enganged in all hazardous nav situations
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Which ships require a liferaft forward?
Ships whose extreme stern to the nearest end of the survival craft is greater than 100m
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How many pyrotechnics are required in a lifeboat/liferaft?
- 6 x hand flares
- 4 x rocket parachutes
- 2 x smoke floats
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How many SARTs does a ship require to carry?
2
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What are the regulations for a cargo ship to carry Fire Hoses?
- 1 hose for every 30m of the ship + 1 spare
- Not less than a total of 5
- Ships with DG = 3 additional hoses and nozzles
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What are the regulations for EEBD?
- 2 in the accommodation space + 1 spare
- ER - variable as per Flag State
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How long is the painter for a liferaft?
- Length not less than 10m +
- Distance from the stowage position to the Waterline
- In the lightest seagoing condition
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- 15m
- Whichever is greatest
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What are your actions in a Steering Gear Failure?
- Switch to 2nd Pump
- Try NFU steering
- Raise alarm, Call master
- Establish comms with steering gear flat
- Engage emergency steering
- Consider use of Bow Thruster
- SECURITE broadcast
- NUC lights/shapes
- Increase position fixing frequency
- Report to nearest VTS
- Prepare for possible anchorage
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What weather is expected with a Warm Front?
- Cirrus cloud >> Cirrostratus
- Light rainfall
- Cool winds
- Temperatures begin to rise slowly
- Increase of air pressure
- Clouds thin out
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What weather is expected with a Cold Front?
- Cumulus clouds
- Pressure drop
- Temperature drop
- Increase in wind speed
- Prolonged rain
- Poor visibility
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