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What is the source of energy used to convert salt water into fresh water in the fresh water generator?
The vacuum and ejector pump.
The ejector pump and sea water pump combined.
The sea water pump supplying the evaporating water.
The waste heat from the main engine.
Your ship is going astern right-handed propeller as sketched below. How is the ship most likely to react?
The stern will fall off to starboard.
The ship will go straight astern.
The stern will back into the wind.
The passage of electrical current through the body may result in severe and sometimes fatal injuries. You are witness to a man getting electric current through his body and is stuck to the dangerous area. It is impossible to switch off the current by any main switch. How can you break the current safely?
Apply oil on your hands and cut the cords by the uyse of any metallic pliers.
Call the electrician immediately.
Stand on dry insulating material and pull the person away with insulating material.
Just take the casualty in your arms and pull the person away.
What do the intersecting horizontal lines signify in the diagram?
The change in the centre of floatation, after trimming.
They show the actual angle of trim.
They only serve as a base for the two vertical lines.
The change of draft after trimming.
What is the purpose of the control position on an enclosed lifeboat?
It is for sending out distress messages giving the ship’s last known position.
It’s a place reserved for injured persons.
It’s the position from which the boat is steered and the safety systems are operated.
It facilitates entering the names of all persons on-board. This is essential record keeping requirements.
Which of the following statements regarding steam turbines is NOT true?
From the HP turbine, the steam then goes to the condenser.
The HP turbine is a faster rotating machine than a diesel engine.
The HP turbine is smaller than the LP turbine.
The HP turbine receives the steam before the LP turbine.
Regarding feed water, which of the following statements is NOT true?
Feed water in HP boilers is normally pumped with a single stage centrifugal pump.
It is turned into steam in the boiler.
Steam turns to feed water in the condenser.
You want to turn your vessel in a narrow canal by use of two tugs with same power. The wind varies in the range moderate/strong. Where/how will the tugs be used?
Pulling, made fast in the vessel.
One tug pushing, one tug pulling.
Pushing, made fast in the vessel.
What is the reason for the effect we call squat?
The bow and stern wave make the ship sink lower in the water.
Increased effect of gravity due to closeness of the sea bed.
Increased velocity and decreased water pressure around the ship’s hull.
Decreased velocity and increased water pressure around the ship’s hull.
Your ship is operating with a right handed propeller. Before coming astern, how should you apply the rudder?
I think the speed is too slow.
How do you ensure reliable results from an inclining experiment?
No specific preparations are necessary and it can be done even in very windy conditions.
Perform test in calm conditions, with slack moorings, with minimum number of personnel and minimise free surface effects of liquids.
How far from the coast is it permitted to use low-pressure evaporation to produce drinking water?
What is part number 1 called?
The diagram shows loadline marks. How is the distance between S and T calculated?
One sixtieth of the summer draft.
One forty eighth of the summer draft.
In the event of a fire situation, which of the following actions is the first to be taken?
Call the officer on duty.
Try to kill the fire immediately by use of fire extinguishers or other adequate appliances.
Check all nearby compartments for survivors.
Which way does the steam pass through in the system?
From the low pressure turbine to the high pressure turbine.
From the supply valve to the high pressure turbine.
From the high pressure turbine to the low pressure turbine.
From the condenser to the low pressure turbine.
How many rocket parachute flares are carried in each lifeboat?
What is hypothermia and how is it cured?
Body temperature below 23 °C/Heat the body.
Heavy coughing/medication.
Body temperature below 39 °C/Heat the body.
Body temperature below 35 °C/Heat the body.
What part in this diagram is the low pressure turbine?
What is the “wave period”?
It is the time in minutes between successive wave crests, passing a fixed point.
It is the time in seconds between successive wave crests or troughs, passing a fixed point.
It is the time interval between the highest waves in a sequence of waves.
It is the comparison of the height of successive waves.
High pressure steam turbines are:
Directly coupled to the propeller shaft.
Larger than low pressure turbines.
Smaller than low pressure turbines.
What kind of shaft seals are used on this high pressure turbine?
What is the purpose of the corrugations on a plate heat exchanger?
To increase the surface area.
To increase turbulence in the liquid.
Stiffening on the thin metal sheet.
What is the most dangerous overtaking situation shown on the sketches?
A large vessel overtaking a small vessel with big difference in speed between the two vessels.
A small vessel overtaking a large vessel with a little difference in speed between the two vessels.
A large vessel overtaking a small vessel with a little difference in speed between the two vessels.
A small vessel overtaking a large vessel with big difference in speed between the two vessels.
What is initial stability?
It is the stability status of the ship, when first delivered to owners from the shipyard.
It is the vessel’s GM, after completion of loading.
It is the stability of the vessel in her initial position, and is expressed by metacentric height.
It is the vessel’s GM, before commencement of loading.
What kind of steam is feeding the astern turbine fitted on the same rotor as the LP turbine?
Reduced superheated steam via a pressure reducer.
Regenerated steam via resuperheater.
Steam from the main steam manifold via manoeuvring stand.
Exhaust steam from the high pressure turbine.
Turbo alternators perform which of the following tasks?
Supplying electricity on a motorship.
Supplying electricity on steamships when the main boiler is shut down.
Supplying electricity on steamships when the main boiler is operating.
Supplying electricity from diesel engines.
You are underway on a power driven vessel in open water, when you see another power driven vessel approximately five miles straight ahead on an opposite course. What action do you take?
Try and call him on the VHF to decide on what action to take.
Make a bold alternation to starboard and pass on his port side.
Make a bold alteration to port and pass on his starboard side.
Stand on with caution as he will alter course.
What is the effect on draft caused by a vessel heeling or listing?
There is no change in draft regardless of the extent of the list.
The draft is reduced by the amount the high side rises above the upright position.
The draft is increased by the difference between the high side draft and the low side draft.
The draft is increased by the difference in the heeled draft measured by a straight line in tangent with the keel, and the draft before heeling.
If the fresh water generator is producing water with salinity of 5 ppm and is changed to produce water of 2 ppm, this is mainly achieved by:
Throttling sea water feed supply to the evaporator.
Decreasing sea water cooling to the condenser.
Slowing down production by opening the vacuum breaker valve.
Decreasing production by lowering fresh water supply from main engine.
What is the main advantage of plate heat exchangers?
More efficient and take up less space.
Requires less maintenance.
What is a “Rescue Sub-Centre” (RSC)?
A national search and rescue centre subordinate to an international search and rescue co-ordinating centre.
A unit subordinate to a rescue co-ordinating centre.
A centre for underwater search and rescue operation.
A centre established to assist the main national rescue centre.
What is the minimum allowable value for GM?
To get the best possible efficiency from refrigerator evaporators, the superheat should be regulated to:
An alarm signal consisting of seven short blasts followed by one prolonged blast is sounded by the ship’s whistle and alarm bells. What are you to do?
Go to (or remain in) your cabin and await further orders.
Report on the bridge (Deck crew) or engine room (Engine crew) for further orders.
Go to your lifeboat station.
If mouth-to-mouth (M-T-M) ventilation by itself is unsuccessful and the casualty’s heart stops or has stopped beating, you must perform external chest compression (ECC) in conjunction with M-T-M. What is the complete rate when performing ECC?
Complete 25 compressions at the rate of 75 compressions per minute.
Complete 10 compressions at the rate of 40 compressions per minute.
Complete 15 compressions at the rate of 80 compressions per minute.
Complete 20 compressions at the rate of 60 compressions per minute.
What does permeability mean?
To make a compartment water tight.
The process of making a compartment non-porus.
The relationship between the volume of a compartment and the volume available for water if bilged.
The flooding of the engine room compartment.
You are berthed with a steady offshore beam wind of 30 knots. This wind suddenly increases to 60 knots. When this happens, the force driving the vessel off-berth will be:
What is the result of a high metacentric height?
The vessel will roll violently.
The vessel will roll slowly or be unstable.
The vessel’s tween deck height is too high.
The vessel will have a great bending moment.
What kind of safety protection is to be weared during a mooring operation?
Safety shoes and boiler suit.
No particular protection necessary.
Helmet, safety shoes, gloves and protecting cloths.
The Disc type oil separator can usually separate water from oil when processing oils between which density ranges?
What are “cross curves” of stability used for onboard a ship?
Giving the capacity of various holds or tanks.
Similar to a set of Bonjean curves.
Obtaining statical stability curves at known displacements.
Showing tank calibration values.
How would you increase the KG of a ship, loaded with a timber cargo, that has become unstable?
By completely emptying all partly filled double bottom tanks.
By filling all wing ballast tanks.
By filing the small divided double bottom tanks on the lower side, while jettisoning the deck cargo from the higher side.
By jettisoning the entire deck cargo of timber.
After obtaining permission from the duty deck officer, under what conditions would the process of soot blowing the boiler tubes be most beneficial?
When the boiler is firing on high rate.
When the boiler is standing idle.
When the boiler is firing on medium rate.
When the boiler is firing on low rate.
What is the BM for a box-shaped vessel in terms of breadth and draught?
Breadth cubed / 12 × draught.
Breadth squared / 12 × draught.
The indications of a faulty refrigeration compressor valve are:
Gradual or sudden decrease in capacity.
Low head pressure, high suction pressure.
What is the absolutely main purpose of fighting a fire onboard?
Which position is the best to stop bleeding from the nose?
Sitting with your head down, holding the nose tightly.
Sitting on a chair, leaning forward with two fingers pressing the nose together.
Laying on the back, holding a wet cold towel on top of the nose.
Laying on the back, leaning the head as much as possible.
On a steamship at sea, electricity is supplied by:
What is the purpose of the sea water pump item No 13?
To drive the air ejector of the evaporator.
To supply sea water to the condenser.
To supply water to be evaporated.
What is item No. 9 shown in the diagram, fitted between evaporator and condenser of the fresh water generator?
When you join a new ship, how are you informed about safety rules, alarm instructions and your own duties in case of an emergency?
By muster lists exhibited in conspicuous places.
By oral instructions by the captain.
By folder distributed to each crew member.
By alarm instructions in all crew cabins.
What is the purpose of hunting hear when referring to a hydraulic steering system?
Limits the speed of the rudder movement.
Provides feedback to the pump control.
To control hydraulic motor swash plate movement.
To transmit hydraulic pressure.
The two main types of refrigeration system evaporators are called?
Modern high pressure boilers produce which of the following?
Fresh water for drinking.
How will the ship behave if you have a black out in the situation sketched below?
The wind will not affect your ship whatsoever.
She will continue on course and the speed will slowly drop.
She will turn to starboard and the speed will slowly drop.
She will turn to port and the speed will drop gradually.
On the air compressor crankcase, there is a small valve that let’s off pressure. What should be done if oil is present with air?
Check the clearance in the bearing.
Overhaul the compressor unit.
Lower the sump oil level.
You are to release the towing wire with forerunner. You have 3 men with you to do the work. How do you do it in a safe way?
With manpower. Two men picking up slack and one man lifts off the eye and let go simultaneously.
Use the winch. Forerunner and wire stopper to pick up the slack and stop the wire. One man operating each. Make the forerunner fast on the bit, releasing the eye of wire and the stopper, lower the wire easy by forerunner.
After heaving on the wire by a forerunner, cut the forerunner and so let the wire free.
When cross-flooding arrangements to correct unsymmetrical flooding and excessive heel angles in damaged condition are installed in passenger ship’s, what is the maximum time allowed for equalization?
Which one of the listed fire extinguishing medium is most effective against an open oil fire?
What is part No. 3?
Turbine drive gear train.
Turbine electromagnetic clutch.
The ship’s training manual must contain instructions and information on the life saving appliances carried onboard. Which of these duties must be included?
Correct use of oars and sails for survival craft.
Correct donning of protective clothing.
Correct method of revival of casualties.
Correct launching, boarding and clearing of survival craft and rescue craft.
Which of these requirements regarding the launching and recovery arrangements for rescue boats corresponds to the SOLAS regulations?
The release mechanism shall be of an automatic type approved by the flag state administration.
Launching shall be possible with a headway speed of up to 5 knots in heavy weather.
Rapid recovery shall be possible with the boat’s full complement of persons and equipment.
Unconscious casualties who are breathing and whose hearts are beating should be placed in the recovery position. Why is this position so important?
The recovery position makes it easy to maintain any kind of bleeding.
The position ensures that an open airway is maintained.
Because it keeps the heart beating.
The position prevents the patient from falling asleep.
Self-igniting lights on lifebuoys must either burn continuously or flash at a specified rate for a period of at least:
Unconscious casualties who are brething and whose hearts are beating should be placed in the recovery position. What is the recovery position?
What is the centre of pressure?
It is the point where the total thrust of pressure could be considered to act.
It is the pressure at the centre of flotation.
It is the pressure in the centre of a specific tank.
It is the part that is least likely to give way to external pressure.
What is the formula to calculate the volume of displacement?
L by 1/2B by draft by freeboard.
How many hand flares should each lifeboat normally carry?
Which of the following is true when comparing plate type with shell and tube type heat exchangers?
Physically smaller for the same capacity.
The capacity can easily be changed.
Better sealing between liquids in shell and tube.
Which alarm and shut-down device is fitted on the thrust bearing assembly?
The axial clearance alarm.
The steam pressure reducing alarm.
The low lub oil flow alarm.
In a distress situation, how many times or for how long should the emergency alarm signal be sounded?
Until all crew members and passengers have reported to their respect muster stations.
Until the signal “risk is over” or the order abandon ship is given.
The ship’s training manual must contain instructions and information on the life-saving appliances carried onboard. Which of these duties must be included?
Correct donning of life jackets.
Correct use of oars and sails for survival craft.
Correct donning of protective clothing.
Correct use of communication equipment.
How often shall each member of the crew participate in an abandon ship drill?
In case of a fire inside the acetylene-line in the AC/OX gas welding equipment, what action is deemed necessary?
Close valves on acetylene bottle(s).
Close acetylene valve in the workshop.
Close the valves on both acetylene and the oxygen bottles.
What can be used to reduce the effect of the state of sea-waves?
Name the two (2) different lubrication oil circuits of a steam turbine:
The thrust bearing and shaft circuit/the front and governor circuit.
The reduction gear oil/the turbine shaft bearing oil.
The bearing and gear oil circuit/the governor oil circuit.
The front bearing circuit/the rear bearing circuit.
In a refrigeration system, a fluid that serves only as a heat carrier is called the:
What is a pro-metacenter?
This expresses KM as moving away off the centreline at large angles of heel.
It is the ability of a vessel to return to an upright position.
It is the term used to indicate a vessel has a more than adequate GM.
It is just another name for metacentric height.
What is the required salinity of the fresh water produced as drinking water onboard?