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Online testing: Test for seamans about Controlling Operation of the Ship and Care for Persons On Board (CES v6.0)
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For a search to be effective it must be:
Organized haphazardly.
Inclusive of all personnel.
Conducted by personnel with limited knowledge of the ship’s layout.
Centrally controlled.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
D-class fire door self closing.
A-class fire door self closing.
C-class fire door self closing.
B-class fire door self closing.
The thermal insulation provided to the wearer of an anti-exposure suit is sufficient to ensure that the wearer’s body core temperature does not fall at a rate of more than:
1 °C per hour after the first 2 h immersion in calm water at temperature of 5 °C.
1,5 °C per hour after the first 0,5 h immersion in calm water at a temperature of 5 °C.
0,5 °C per hour after the first 1,5 h immersion in calm water at temperature of 5 °C.
1,5 °C per hour after the first 2,5 h immersion in calm water at temperature of 5 °C.
One of the categories of information that must be included in your SSP is:
Security arrangements.
Weaknesses in security measures.
Threat scenarios.
Ship security survey.
When reasonable and practicable, how often shall rescue boats be launched with their assigned crew aboard and manoeuvred in the water?
Every 6 months.
Every week.
Every 2 weeks.
Every month.
A lifejacket has sufficient buoyancy and stability to lift the mouth of an unconscious person at a minimum of:
120 mm above the water (in calm water).
180 mm above the water (in calm water).
160 mm above the water (in calm water).
40 mm above the water (in calm water).
Before extinction of an electric fire we need:
To put out the fire without taking any special measures.
To know the voltage and wear rubber gloves.
To disconnect the power source.
To confine the area involved in the fire.
What is the meaning of this symbol?
Line-throwing appliance.
Radar transponder.
Rocket parachute flares.
Survival craft pyrotechnic distress signals.
Apart from red, what other colour is frequently used for a dry powder extinguisher?
Blue.
Green.
Yellow.
Black.
What is the purpose of the Ship Security Plan?
Detail the duties of shipboard personnel assigned security responsibilities.
Outline the organizational structure for the ship.
Protect your ship from risks posed by security threats or incidents.
Outline specific measures for your ship to move from security level 1 to 2 and from 2 to 3.
What is the signal actuated by a fire detection system?
An audible and visual signal consisting in 7 short signals followed by a long one.
A visual signal at the control panel.
An audible signal at the control panel.
A visual and audible alarm signal at the control panel.
If you have to carry out hot work close to a smoke detector in the engine room, what precautions should be taken?
Notify deck officer in charge that a fire alarm may occur.
Disconnect the smoke detector.
No special precautions except for having a watch man and a fire extinguisher available.
Notify Master, Deck officer and Engineer in charge. The loop for this special sensor to be switched off and take normal precautions for hot work.
The operating mode of a pyrotechnic signal depends essentially on:
Instructions or diagrams printed on its casing by the manufacturer.
The fact that the user is on board a liferaft, a lifeboat or ship.
The weather conditions of the moment.
A definite standard process.
A lifebuoy is constructed to withstand a drop into the water from a height of:
10 m.
4 m.
30 m.
18 m.
To maintain a fire, three conditions need to be met: Oxygen, combustible material and sufficient temperature for combustion. What subject must be removed to extinguish the fire?
Heat, Oxygen and combustible material.
Combustible material.
Either of the mentioned alternatives.
Oxygen.
What type of bomb search should you conduct to avoid panic when the credibility of the threat is in doubt and you don’t want to disrupt ship business?
Crew search.
Known hiding spot search.
External search team.
Nominated officers search.
An optical fire detector head is activated by:
Invisible hot gases.
The visible smoke that is a result of combustion.
The flames that are a result of combustion.
The radiation of the heat given off by flames.
You are carrying out a search in a smoke filled compartment wearing a breathing apparatus. At what stage should you start to make your way out of the compartment?
15 minutes after starting to use the set as this leaves you with 5 minutes air left.
Regularly check your pressure gauge and note how much air you used to reach your work area. Start to return when you have this amount left plus a reasonable reserve.
Wait until the breathing apparatus warning whistle sounds.
Wait for the appropriate signal on your safety line as the personnel outside will be keeping a track of the time you have spent inside.
Which of the following detailed explanations should be mentioned in the Training Manual?
How to use navigational equipment for survival crafts.
How to use escape routes and other escape methods.
How to recover survival craft and rescue boats including stowage and securing.
How to use surface to air visual signals to be used by survivors.
You are the officer of the watch at the bridge of a cargo ship. In the middle of the night, an alarm sounds on the control panel of the fire detection system. It indicates that a detector is activated in the crew’s accommodation. What is the first action you would take?
Sound the fire alarm signal and send the seaman on watch down to inspect and report the situation.
Run to the scene as fast as possible and start fighting the fire by all available means.
Acquit the alarm and wait till it sounds again before taking any other action.
Call the Captain.
How many buoyant smoke signals are carried in each liferaft with SOLAS B pack?
1.
6.
4.
Nil.
Which of these are indicators that an individual may be a drug smuggler?
The individual makes small local purchases.
The individual is disinterested in the ship’s cargo.
The individual wears bulky or out of season clothing.
The individual spends his or her free time hanging out with others.
An immersion suit which has its own buoyancy is fitted with:
A light plus a whistle plus a knife.
A whistle.
A light.
A light plus a whistle.
During a bomb search, which of the following is an important principle to follow?
Throw any suspicious items overboard.
Know exactly what a bomb looks like.
Try to reach behind bulkheads to find a bomb.
Do not touch any suspicious packages.
An inflatable liferaft accommodation 6 persons is fitted with:
1 entrance fitted with a boarding ladder.
1 entrance fitted with semi-rigid boarding ramp.
2 entrances each being fitted with a boarding ladder.
2 entrances among which one is fitted with a semi-rigid boarding ramp.
If conditions permit, which is the best way to board a liferaft which is floating close to the ship?
Wearing a lifejacket, jump into the water close to the raft and then swim to it.
Jump onto the raft itself.
Use a rope ladder close to the raft to climb down and board.
Jump into the water close to the raft, without a lifejacket, as this will make it easier to swim and board the liferaft.
The effectiveness of foam is based on:
Dilution.
Inhibition.
Smothering and dispersion.
Smothering and cooling.
A hand flare must have a burning period of at least:
10 min.
5 min.
1 min.
30 sec.
How much water per person is provided in a liferaft equipped with a desalting apparatus?
1 litre.
15 litres.
2,5 litres.
5 litres.
What is the working principle of the detectors of a common fixed sprinkler fire-extinguish system?
They are fixed-temperature detectors.
They are smoke detectors.
They are flame detectors.
They are rate-of-rise detectors.
How often are “abandon ship” drills required to be held on cargo vessels according to SOLAS?
Once every week.
Once every 6 months.
Once every year.
Once every month.
According to their physical state, extinguishing agents may be classified in to:
Solid, proteinic and gases.
Solid, liquid and gases.
Proteinic and synthetic.
Synthetic, proteinic, gases and liquid.
The most effective way to combat the threat of drug smuggling is to:
Organize crew into pairs and conduct weekly searches of the ship.
Combining routine, but irregular searches of the ship with spontaneous targeted searches.
Perform spontaneous targeted searches using teams of two or more personnel from the same department.
Perform routine, but irregular searches using teams of two or more personnel from the same department.
Eavesdropping and phone taps are examples of which threat to information security?
Sabotage.
Subversion.
Espionage.
Terrorism.
Which of the listed requirements regarding service and maintenance of life-saving appliances correspond to present regulations?
At least one member of the crew shallhold a repairman certificate for life-saving equipment.
Maintenance and repair of all life-saving equipments shall be carried out by the certified ship staff only.
Maintenance and repair of all the life-saving equipments will be carried out ashore in work shop only.
Instructions for onboard maintenance of life-saving appliances in accordance with the regulations shall be provided.
Which of these statements about drug smugglers modes of operating is true?
An organized conspiracy usually smuggles a small amount of drugs.
Individual enterpreneurs usually smuggle large quantities of drugs.
Drugs smuggled by an organized conspiracy are usually concealed in a primary ship system such as the engine room or in a tank, void or compartment.
Drugs hidden by individual enterpreneurs are usually difficult to detect.
A person wearing a thermal protective aid shall be able:
To climb up and down a vertical ladder.
To swim a short distance through the water and board a survival craft.
To wear a lifejacket inside.
To jump into the water from a height of 4,5 m.
The mandatory color of a hand flare is:
Red.
White.
Yellow.
Green.
What are the tricing pendants made for?
They automatically prevent any gap between the ship side and the lifeboat at the first stage of its launching.
They prevent people from falling down if the lifeboat falls down.
They prevent the lifeboat from falling down if one or both davit breaks.
They prevent the lifeboat from falling down if the falls break.
If you detect a fire on board the ship, dependent on the situation, which of the following actions is the first to be taken?
Check all nearby compartments for survivors.
Try to kill the fire immediately by use of fire-extinguishers or other adequate appliances.
Call the officer on duty.
Raise the fire alarm.
You can reduce the need for security guards in certain areas by installing:
Vapour detectors.
Metal detectors.
Anti-intruder devices.
Water cannons.
What is the meaning of this symbol?
Lifeboat.
Rescue boat.
Davit-launched liferaft.
Liferaft.
Where do you find minimum drill requirements?
In classification society rules.
In the SOLAS convention and its annex.
In manager’s instructions.
In owner’s instructions.
In case a fire alarm is sounded from the bridge, what action would you take as Engineer on Duty?
Start the fire pump.
Report to the muster station.
Stop the engines.
Contact the bridge by telephone and ask for instructions.
Who is responsible for the regular security inspections of the ship?
The Port Facility Security Officer.
The Classification Society.
The Company Security Officer.
The Ship Security Officer.
Where shall manually operated call points in fixed fire-detection and alarm systems be located in accommodation spaces? (SOLAS II-2/13.2.1).
At exits and in corridors.
In stairways and escape routes.
In all crew and passenger cabins.
In messrooms, public lounges and other public rooms.
The main buoyancy chamber of an inflatable liferaft must be divided into:
2 compartments.
3 compartments.
2 compartments separated by a non-return valve.
3 compartments separated by a non-return valve.
Which of the following are frequent causes of fires in accommodation?
1 – Smoking in bed, 2 – Covering of electric fires with blankets, 3 – overloading electric plugs.
Covering of electric fires with blankets.
Overloading electric plugs.
Smoking in bed.
What is the only reliable way of checking that the CO2 cartridge in a dry powder extinguisher is full?
Weigh the extinguisher and check that it complies with the weight marked on it.
Remove the cartridge and weigh it to check that it has the full weight stamped on it.
All of the alternatives are reliable methods.
Check if the seal on the extinguisher release handle is intact.
Which of these actions should you take it your ship is successfully boarded by armed pirates?
Assure your captors that you’re not planning an attack to overthrow them.
Fight back.
Keep quiet and ignore any questions you’re asked.
Scream in fear and refuse to cooperate.
When a fire breaks out in the engine room, who is in charge of the fire-fighting operations?
The first person to arrive at the scene.
The Chief Engineer.
The engineer on duty.
The Captain.
What class of fire involves gas?
Class A fire.
Class C fire.
Class B fire.
Class D fire.
The smoke detector (fire indicator) indicates a fire in a cargo hold loaded with general cargo; this is immediately followed by a heavy smell of fire. What action should be taken first?
Close the ventilation system and other openings to the hold in order to choke the fire.
Use the ship’s central gas-extinguishing system to put out the fire.
Inspect the scene before deciding the method to be used for fire-fighting.
Start the fire pumps, open the hatches and start fighting the fire with fire hoses.
What is the minimum number of lifebuoys carried by a cargo vessel of more than 200 metres in length?
18.
12.
20.
14.
Hydrocarbon gas encountered in oil tankers cannot burn in an atmosphere containing less than approximately what percentage of oxygen (by volume)?
11 %.
17 %.
15 %.
13 %.
One of the risks of using CO2 is the low temperatures that it reaches when it vaporises; this temperature is approximately:
-5 °C.
0 °C.
-79 °C.
-109 °C.
If drugs or suspected drugs are found onboard your ship, follow the five C’s: Confirm, Clear, Cordon, Control and:
Cheer.
Chuck.
Change.
Check.
If drugs are discovered onboard your ship:
Ensure the witness to the discovery signs your incident report.
Disembark crew and passengers as quickly as possible at the next port of call so the authorities can conduct their investigation.
Notify the authorities after you arrive at the next port of call.
Write a report a few days after the event and describe everything that occurred.
Which of these procedures should crew follow when conducting a bomb search?
Wait in the area they’ve finished searching until they’re contacted for a status update.
Search the perimeter of the space up to a height of 5 feet.
Stand quietly in various spots around the space, listening for unusual sounds like the tick tock of a clock mechanism.
Conduct random or spot checks of logical threat areas.
Which one of the listed requirements regarding abandon ship drills corresponds to present SOLAS regulation?
Drills shall be conducted when the ship is in a harbour.
Each lifeboat shall be launched, and manoeuvred in the water with its assigned crew at least once every 3 months during an abandon ship drill.
On ships on short international voyages, each lifeboat shall be launched and manoeuvred in the water at least every 6 months.
All lifeboats shall be lowered during drills.
As regards the launching and recovery arrangements for rescue boats which is required among the following:
Launching and recovery arrangements shall be such that they can be operated at all times from the bridge.
Different type of launching and recovery arrangements shall be used for similar survival craft on board the ship.
Means shall be available to prevent any discharge of water on to survival craft during abandonment.
Each lifeboat shall be provided with separate appliances which is capable of launching and recovering the lifeboat.
What maximum suction head can be expected from a fire pump?
Approximately 5 metres.
Approximately 10 metres.
Any height, provided the pump has enough power.
Approximately 1 metre.
Proteinic foams have the feature of being?
Of high expansion, not easily contaminated by hydrocarbons.
Of low expansion, not easily contaminated by hydrocarbons.
Of high expansion, made of tense-active compounds.
Of low expansion, viscous and solid, easily contaminated by hydrocarbons.
What method shall be used when hauling survivors out of the sea (state of survivors is critical)?
Using heaving line.
Using nets.
Using lifebuoy.
Using painter.
A contractor is hired to install new navigation equipment onboard your ship while it’s berthed. For a period of time he’s left unsupervised and photographs schematics of the ship that he finds rolled up and stored in the corner of a nearby office. Later, from home, he hacks into the network and prints off information about the ship’s security procedures. Which of these information security measures would have prevented his unauthorized access?
Protective markings, reference checks, and passwords.
Secure area, passwords, a firewall and protective markings.
Firewall, protective markings, vetting and a secure network.
Secure area, passwords, a firewall and a secure network.
During helicopter evacuation of an injured man, what course should the ship steer?
With the wind fine on the bow opposite to the helicopter operating area.
Directly into the wind.
As instructed by the helicopter pilot.
With the wind astern so that the effect of the wind is reduced as much as possible.
For how long should the self contained air support system on a totally enclosed lifeboat having its engine running be capable of providing safe and breathable air?
10 minutes.
20 minutes.
30 minutes.
5 minutes.
How much lifeboat capacity should be provided on a conventional cargo ship of more than 85 metres in length?
150 % of the ship’s complement on each side.
50 % of the ship’s complement on each side.
125 % of the ship’s complement on each side.
100 % of the ship’s complement on each side.
The grabline of a lifebuoy has a length of:
2 times the outer diameter of the lifebuoy.
3 times the outer diameter of the lifebuoy.
5 times the outer diameter of the lifebuoy.
4 times the outer diameter of the lifebuoy.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Hose box.
Sprinkler horn.
Fire alarm panel.
CO2 battery.
Halons are decomposed into toxic products when they are applied at temperatures near:
500 °C.
350 °C.
1 000 °C.
100 °C.
The method of extinction by smothering is based on this basis:
The fire is extinguished by eliminating the heat so as to obtain a temperature at which the fuel doesn’t give off enough vapour.
The fire is extinguished by avoiding the contact between the fuel vapours and the hot surface.
The fire is extinguished by interrupting the chain reaction, as it stops the transmission of heat by means of the action of chemical agents.
The fire extinguished by avoiding the contact between the fuel vapours and the oxygen.
Which of the following items must be included in each fire drill?
Starting a fire pump using at least two required jets of water to show that the system is in proper working order.
All the items mentioned.
Reporting to stations and preparing for the duties described in the muster list.
Checking fireman’s outfits and other personal rescue equipment.
Which part of the fresh water quantity provided for each person the liferaft is permitted to accommodate may be replaced by a de-salting apparatus?
0,5 l if the de-salting apparatus is capable of producing this quantity in 1 day.
0,25 l if the de-salting apparatus is capable of producing this quantity in 1 day.
0,25 l if the de-salting apparatus is capable of producing this quantity in 2 day.
0,5 l if the de-salting apparatus is capable of producing this quantity in 2 day.
Generally speaking, what is the value commonly recognised as the maximum concentration of oil vapours allowed in the breathing air of a breathing apparatus?
10 mg/m3.
50 mg/m3.
5 mg/m3.
500 mg/m3.
For how long and at what speed is a fully loaded lifeboat designed to operate in calm weather?
4 knots for 48 hours.
10 knots for 24 hours.
3 knots for 24 hours.
6 knots for 24 hours.
Which of the following is allowed as a fire-extinguishing medium for fixed gas fire-extinguishing systems aboard ships?
Carbon monoxide.
Carbon dioxide.
Carbon disulphide.
All of the above gas are allowed.
Which of following items shall be included in an abandon ship drill?
Checking the distress signal rockets and other distress signals.
Checking the lifeboat provisions and supplies.
Instruction in the use of radio life-saving appliances.
Checking passenger’s immersion suits.
In case of a fire in engine rooms, cargo holds or other confined spaces, what has to be done before the central gas extinguishing system is used?
If any, open all bottom ventilation inlets and outlets to the compartment.
Stop all engines.
Disconnect all non-emergency circuits from the main switchboard.
Make sure that the compartment has been evacuated.
What is the first thing you are doing when having a lifeboat drill?
Swing out the davit.
Put on the life jacket.
Enter the lifeboat.
Wait for order.
The current test includes Seagull CES questions on the topic of «Controlling Operation of the Ship and Care for Persons On Board». The 3rd officer's duties include ensuring that all safety equipment is in proper working condition and conducting regular safety drills. They are also responsible for maintaining the vessel’s safety management system and ensuring compliance with all relevant safety regulations. Additionally, the 3rd officer may be involved in implementing the vessel’s security plan and ensuring adherence to relevant security protocols. They are responsible for keeping a lookout on the bridge and maintaining the vessel's course and speed as directed by the Officer of the Watch (OOW). They also assist the OOW with regular navigational checks and maintain communication with other vessels and shore-based authorities.
- Version: 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0.0.
- Test type: STCW.
- Duty: Officer.
- Level: Controlling the operation of the ship.
- Areas: Fire Fighting Basic, Fire Fighting Advanced, Security Awareness, SSO – Ship Security Officer, Survival Basic, Survival Advanced.
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