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Home Online tests CES Container 2nd-Off / 3rd-Off Test for seamans about Deck department, Operational level, Container Vessel (CES v6.0)
Online testing: Test for seamans about Deck department, Operational level, Container Vessel (CES v6.0)
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DSC uses for automatic identification the MMSI. The identification 002442000 is assigned to:
A coast-station or coast guard-station.
A vessel.
A group of vessels.
A type of vessels.
Which one of the listed requirements regarding the stowage of rescue boats corresponds to present SOLAS regulations. Rescue boats shall be stowed:
So neither the rescue boat nor its launching arrangements will interfere with any survival craft at any other launching station.
In a state of readiness for launching in not more than 2 minutes.
Attached to launching appliances.
Wherever space is available.
What colour flare is used to signal a safe landing place for small boats?
Green.
White.
Blue.
Yellow.
What is “UNDER KEEL CLEARANCE”, in the figure?
Under Keel Clearance is indicated by C, in the figure.
Under Keel Clearance is indicated by A, in the figure.
Under Keel Clearance is indicated by B, in the figure.
Under Keel Clearance is indicated by D, in the figure.
What radar device assists in the detection and location of a survival craft?
SART beacon.
AIS beacon.
EPIRB beacon.
I don’t know.
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.
When steel reinforcing rods are loaded in open-top containers, claims against the vessel would most likely arise due to:
Cargo staining by rust, hydraulic oil or grease.
Physical damages to the cargo.
Cargo being loaded less than the full height of the container.
Container damages.
As officer on the mooring deck, when would you report to the bridge that an attending tug is “clear”?
When the towline is recovered and the tug is clear of the vessel hull.
When the tug is at least 100 metres from the vessel.
When the towline is taken off a set of mooring bits on deck.
When the towline is made fast and the tug is ready for towing.
Distress MF communications should normally be operated:
In J3E mode – on simplex basis.
In J3E mode – on duplex basis.
In G3E mode – on duplex basis.
In G3E mode – on simplex basis.
Vessels communicating directly with each other by VHF, work:
Always simplex.
Always duplex.
Always semi-duplex.
Dependent on the set on board, either simplex or duplex.
Bulk liquid cargoes carried in flexi-tank containers are considered dangerous:
When the associated material safety data sheet shows a constituent(s) listed in the IMDG Code.
When the shipper instructs that the container be carried on-deck only.
When declared as a non-hazardous chemical.
When declared as bulk liquid foodstuff.
What features of the vessel hull, equipment and cargo causes error on a vessel’s standard magnetic compass?
Permanent and induced magnetism found in steel or iron on-board.
Deviation and Variation.
The change in the position of the magnetic pole causing annual changes in the variation.
The continual changes of courses made by the vessel.
If your vessel is fitted with wires on self-stowing “split drum” winches, the advantage of having these split drum winches is:
All the listed alternatives.
Increased brake holding capacity due to the ability to keep the paid out wire in a single layer on the drum.
Less chance of the wire being jammed in the reel.
No crushing of the wire.
In the diagram, the amount of water under the keel is indicated by the letter “C”. Which bridge instrument would measure this value?
Arpa Radar.
Echo Sounder.
ECDIS.
Draught Indicator.
Which option best completes the following statement? An operator using ECDIS will notice an out of position navigation buoy because:
The radar return and ENC buoy symbol will not coincide.
There will be a flashing alarm on ECDIS showing which one is out.
It is coloured orange on an ECDIS display.
A local port authority would send an automatic signal to ECDIS.
Abdominal Thrust is the name on a technique which involves applying a series of thrusts to the upper abdomen in an attempt to force air out of a choking casualty’s lungs. How to perform this technique?
Stand behind the casualty. Clench your fist with the thumb inwards in the center of upper abdomen. Grasp your fist with your other hand and pull quickly inwards.
Remove the obstruction and restore normal breathing.
Lay casualty on a hard surface, e. g. deck, and press firmly and rapidly on the middle of the lower half of the breast bone.
Let the casualty grab a list and hang up right down for a period of minimum 5 minutes.
What letter is represented by this flag and what is it’s meaning when displayed by a vessel in port?
P – All persons should report on board as the vessel is about to proceed to sea.
P – I require a pilot.
W – All persons should report onboard as the vessel is about to proceed to sea.
S – I am operating astern propulsion.
Can anything be done on a vessel with forward speed, to reduce the change in heading caused by a right hand fixed pitch propeller being put astern?
The rudder should be put hard to starboard to reduce the water flow to the left side of the propeller.
No, the rudder should be kept amidships when going astern and there is little that can be done to reduce the swing to starboard.
The rudder can be cycled from side to side.
Yes, the rudder can be put to port.
What is the function of double stacking cones?
To link adjacent container stacks together particulary those in line with buttresses.
To link out-of-gauge container stacks together.
To lock adjacent container stacks together.
To lock containers horizontally.
If a search and rescue aircraft flies over your vessel as shown in the three sketches, what does this mean?
The aircraft wants your vessel to proceed in the direction shown in the bottom image.
The assistance of your vessel is no longer required.
The casualty is sighted and will require medical assistance.
The aircraft is short on fuel and is returning to base but request your vessel to continue searching.
The limitations of a Cargo Securing Manual of a container vessel may include the fact that:
They are drafted whilst the ship is still under construction and need to be checked against the ship’s “as completed” condition in order to be fully reliable.
Some Cargo Securing Manuals cover a full range of sister ships.
Cargo securing arrangements in the manuals may be unsuitable for heavy weather conditions.
They are not always approved by a classification society.
Which among the following list is particularly required for a totally enclosed lifeboat?
Windows on both sides can be closed watertight and opened for ventilation.
Self-bailing arrangements.
Handrails inside for persons moving to their seats.
Hatches positioned so as to allow launching and recovery operations to be performed without any occupant having to leave the enclosure.
In the diagram, which letter is indicating the “bitts” which would probably be used by the mooring the ship?
The bits for the Forward Spring is indicated by B, in the figure.
The bits for the Forward Spring is indicated by C, in the figure.
The bits for the Forward Spring is indicated by A, in the figure.
The bits for the Forward Spring is indicated by D, in the figure.
What do you do after receiving a VHF DSC DISTRESS call?
You set watch on VHF channel 16.
You send immediately a DSC DISTRESS RELAY call.
You send immediately a DSC DISTRESS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT call.
You set watch on channel 13.
What device can be used by a tug to get a line aboard a disabled vessel in bad weather, when it is dangerous for the tug to get too close?
A rocket line.
A missile line.
A heaving line.
A cannon line.
You are starting to get low on water in the lifeboat. What should you do?
Collect rain water.
Mix sea water with 50 % fresh water.
Drink urine.
Use sea water.
You are on board a ship which is not specially fitted for navigation in cold regions. At what ambient temperature should the engine of the lifeboat start within less than 2 minutes?
Until -15 °C.
Until -3 °C.
Until 0 °C.
Until -5 °C.
What is the disadvantage of using chemicals on an oil-spill on the water?
The chemicals make it difficult to remove the oil from the water.
It is difficult to apply the chemicals if the oil drifts away from the ship’s side.
It is difficult to apply chemicals if there is any wind.
The water gets a white colour, which makes it easy to detect the oil-spill.
You wish to send a DSC-message because of a m. o. b. situation and assistance by other ships is required. You have to choose the category:
Distress.
Urgency.
Individual.
Safety.
Hand flares and buoyant smoke signals can continue to burn or emit smoke after having been immersed for a period of 10 s.
Right, if the immersion depth is smaller than 100 mm.
Right, if the immersion depth is more than 1 m.
Right.
Wrong.
What is the anticipated rolling period of a ship with a large initial Transverse Metacentric Height (GM) and would there be any associated dangers to consider?
Short sharp period of roll associated with breaking lashings and shifting cargo.
Short period of roll, but a very stable ship and no associated dangers.
Long period of roll with free surface effects at a maximum.
Long slow roll and no particular hazards.
What does the word “pirates” mean?
Pirates are persons who attempt to board and take over a ship at sea.
Pirates are special cargo lashings on container ships.
Pirates are official people who bord the ship while in port.
Pirates are another word for helmsmen.
A rocket parachute flare reaches an altitude of:
Not less than 180 m.
Not less than 450 m.
Not less than 300 m.
Not less than 40 m.
What do you do after receiving a VHF DSC DISTRESS call?
You set watch on VHF channel 16.
You set watch on channel 13.
You send immediatly a DSC DISTRESS RELAY call.
You send immediatly a DSC DISTRESS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT call.
A vessel has a right-handed fixed pitch propeller, what should happen to its heading, if the propeller was put full astern?
The bow should swing to starboard.
The bow will remain steady.
The bow should swing to port.
The vessel will slow down.
The proper operation of an Inmarsat-C terminal can be tested by:
Doing a “link test”.
Sending a message to MF DSC.
Doing a “recommissioning test”.
Requesting a “self test”.
What do the letters “TPC” stand for?
Tonnes per Centimetre.
Tonnes per Centimetre Immersion.
Tipping Centre.
Trim per Centimetre.
What is the normal term used for the regular training of how to launch the lifeboat?
Lifeboat drill.
Lifeboat launching.
Lifeboat exercise.
Lifeboat practice.
In the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force, what is the Beaufort number associated with the wind force known as a “Gale”? This should not be confused with a “Near Gale” or “Strong Gale”?
Eight (8).
Nine (9).
Seven (7).
Ten (10).
Under the IMDG Code, a new “Marine Pollutant” label contains images of:
A dead tree and dead fish.
Dead fish and dead sea birds.
The letters “PP”.
The letter “P”.
If the order is given to a mooring deck to “make fast”, what would happen?
Make fast means to apply a lashing to a coiled mooring rope.
Mooring ropes are transferred from a winch drum to the bitts.
Make fast means to set very quickly.
Mooring ropes are transferred from a storage drum to a winch to start heaving.
Under ISM, what is a “non-conformity”?
An observed situation where objective evidence indicates the non-fulfilment of a specified requirement.
Official log book entries not being completed correctly.
The wearing of non-standard Personal protective equipment.
A safety officer not being nominated for the vessel.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Muster station.
Muster station for unaccompanied minors (UM).
Muster station for families only.
Gathering place for embarkation formalities.
A MMSI number consist of:
9 digits.
6 digits.
10 digits.
4 digits.
What is meant by the term “Single up” when a vessel is preparing to leave the jetty to which it was moored?
This term used when there is only one single rope left out between the ship and the jetty, when leaving the berth.
This term used to describe the process of letting go most of the moorings lines and just leaving sufficient lines to stay safely alongside.
This term used when only one single tug is used to assist the ship in leaving the berth.
I don’t know.
What is the purpose of the ODME (Oil Discharge Monitoring Equipment) printer?
To prove that oil has been pumped overboard according to regulations.
To prove that the ODME system has been used.
To prove fault conditions in the ODME.
None of the mentioned.
The operating mode of a pyrotechnic signal depends essentially on:
Instructions or diagrams printed on its casing by the manufacturer.
A definite standard process.
The fact that the user is on board a liferaft, a lifeboat or ship.
The weather conditions of the moment.
Under ISM, what is a “non-conformity”?
An observed situation where objective evidence indicates the non-fulfilment of a specified requirements.
The wearing of non-standard Personal protective equipment.
Official log book entries not being completed correctly.
A safety officer not being nominated for the vessel.
Which of the following answers would most appropriately describe shell plating damage to the vessel?
My vessel has sustained damage to shell plating below the waterline in way of No. 3 cargo hold, starboard side.
My vessel has sustained damage to shell plating in way of No. 3 cargo hold.
My vessel has sustained damage to shell plating below the waterline.
My vessel has sustained damage to shell plating above the waterline.
On a container vessel, flexitanks are used for:
The carriage of non-hazardous liquids, in bulk.
The carriage of hazardous liquids, in bulk.
The carriage of liquid cargoes of a particular specific gravity.
The carriage of liquid cargoes that do not have a Proper Shipping Name.
The greatest limitation of the fixed pressure water-spraying fire-extinguishing systems is a danger of:
Stability reduction on ships with single deck.
Overflowing.
Stability reduction on ships with several decks.
All answers are correct.
What would be understood by the message “A yacht has capsized in heavy seas”?
The message means the yacht has been overturned in heavy seas.
The message means the vessel is taking in water.
The message means the vessel is experiencing heavy seas and may need assistance.
The message means the yacht has lost its Captain in heavy seas.
Which of the following spaces may be protected by a fixed carbon dioxide (CO2) fire-extinguishing system?
Machinery spaces of category A.
Cargo tanks of tankers.
All the spaces mentioned.
Special category spaces of passenger ships.
What is the correct setting of the “Anti sea clutter” control on the radar?
A few sea returns remaining on the screen.
All of the suggested answers.
A removal of all the sea returns down to about a mile from own ship.
No sea returns left on the screen which may confuse with small target echoes near the ship.
Testing a SART is permitted:
Only at sea, outside territorial waters.
Only in a port or harbour.
Only in the workshop.
At sea, outside territorial waters, and in port or harbour.
The log-in of an Inmarsat-C installation is important:
To inform the NSC that one is available for messages offered.
To inform the LES, that one is available for messages offered.
To keep watch on Sat-C for safety messages.
To inform the addressee, that one is available for messages offered.
Which equipment will detect a signal from a SART transponder?
X-band radar.
S-band radar.
None of the above.
Radio Direction Finder.
Why could dirty and oily areas of the deck be dangerous?
They may cause people to slip over and hurt themselves.
They show the ship is not efficient.
They are areas which should be cleaned up.
They do not look good to the customers.
“Parametric Rollin” on a container ship results in:
The sudden unexpected occurrence of large rolling angles in beam seas.
The gradual build up of rolling angle in a head sea.
The unexpected roll to a large angle of heel due to a beam sea.
A large unstable roll motion suddenly occurring in head or stern seas.
What is the minimum working pressure of the international shore connection?
1 N/mm2.
0,1 N/mm2.
0,4 N/mm2.
1 N/mm2.
HEL-H is the abbreviation of a heavy helicopter radius of action for rescue purposes. What do you think the radius and evacuating capacity of the helicopter is?
200 nm and capacity for evacuating more than 15 persons.
100 nm and capacity for evacuating more than 10 persons.
500 nm and capacity for evacuating more than 25 persons.
150 nm and capacity for evacuating more than 12 persons.
How can the error of the Gyro compass be determined?
By taking a transit bearing with the gyro compass of two prominent fixed shore objects and comparing it with the bearing of the same objects on the chart.
By using any of the methods in the suggested answers.
By comparing the course readout on the GPS with the gyro course steered.
I don’t know.
When forces on a container stow are being calculated, the motion that is not accounted for is:
Surging.
Rolling.
Pitching.
Heaving.
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?
30 minutes.
10 minutes.
5 minutes.
20 minutes.
What do you understand by “Bitter end”?
Bitter end means: the end link of an anchor cable that is secured within the chain locker.
Bitter end means: a foul taste at the end of a meal.
Bitter end means: the toggled end of a lifeboat painter.
Bitter end means: to the very last moment.
What is the depth of an iceberg below the surface of the sea?
The draught of an iceberg varies with the type of berg and its age.
The draught of an iceberg is normally about 3/4 of its total depth.
The draught of an iceberg is about the same as the visible part of the iceberg above the water.
The depth of an iceberg below the surface is always about one sixth of its total depth.
What is (are) the basic component(s) of a Fire detection system?
All the alternatives mentioned.
The power supply.
The control unit.
The detector heads.
Where do we find information about the ships fire preparedness?
Information about the ships fire preparedness is found in the muster list.
Information about the ships fire preparedness is found at the fire station.
Information about the ships fire preparedness is found in the company QA manual.
Information about the ships fire preparedness is found in the deck log book.
It is considered essential that container ships should have a large ballast capacity and high powered ballast pumps, because:
These are required for trimming the ships and offsetting longitudinal bending moments.
These are required to load ballast during discharge.
These are necessary to keep the vessel upright during the loaded passage.
These are essential to retain the vessel within the International loadline requirements.
DSC uses for automatic identification the MMSI. The identification 002442000 is assigned to:
A coast-station or coast guard-station.
A group of vessels.
A type of vessels.
A vessel.
When may a call for radio medical advice be preceded by the urgency-signal?
In urgent cases.
Always.
When you have a doctor on board.
Never.
One can check the functioning of the SART by:
Activating the SART and checking the effect on the radar screen.
Removing it from the holder and turning the SART upside down.
Activating it by extracting the antenna.
Lowering SART in to the sea.
What sound signal can be made when nearing a bend in a river, with the view around the bend obscured by an intervening obstruction?
Two prolonged blasts.
Two short blasts.
One prolonged blast.
One short blast.
What facility exists under the ISM Code for the provision of individual control measures for specific work-related tasks?
The Permit to Work system.
The definition of supervisory responsibilities.
The due diligence clause.
The documentation of individual job descriptions.
What material should boiler suits be made of?
Cotton.
Wool.
Nylon.
Asbestos.
Via Inmarsat-C a message is sent to an Inmarsat-C mailbox with a positive delivery notification (PDN). The ground station will:
Send a PDN, as soon as the message is collected from the mailbox.
Send no PDN’s with messages intended for the mailbox.
Send a PDN, if the message has arrived in the mailbox.
Not send any PDN for this message.
What name is given to the point that sketches out the turning circle of a vessel?
Hydrodynamic Pivot Point.
Centre of Flotation.
Turn Centre Point.
Weight Pivot Point.
What is the daytime signal to be shown when the vessel is at anchor?
Two black balls where they can best be seen.
A black diamond forward where it can best be seen.
A black ball forward where it can best be seen.
The national flag flying from the fore most.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Rocket parachute flares.
Survival craft distress pyrotechnic signals.
Line throwing appliance.
Parachute landing area.
It is not possible to install double stacking cones on container ships which has:
Loaded out-of-gauge containers.
Restrictions in the cargo securing manual.
Loaded a homogenous container load.
Limitations in ship design.
The «Deck Operational Container Vessel» subject provides both theoretical and practical knowledge on safely working with electrical equipment. Mastery of this information is a key indicator of an employee's competence in a relevant role on a vessel. Container vessels are essential to global trade, enabling the transport of goods across the world’s oceans and playing a vital role in connecting economies and facilitating international commerce.
As an officer on a container vessel, your responsibilities include navigation, piloting, cargo planning and management, equipment maintenance, safety oversight, and emergency response. You are tasked with ensuring the safe and efficient operation of the vessel, supervising cargo operations, maintaining navigational equipment, and promoting the overall safety and security of the ship and its crew.
- Version: 5.0. 5.1, 6.0.0.
- Test type: STCW.
- Department: Deck.
- Level: Operational.
- Vessel type: Container Vessel.
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