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The best way to identify an IED is to:
Recognize its components.
Measure the size of the object.
Which one of the following items has to be included in an abandon ship drill according to SOLAS regulations?
Checking that life-jackets are correctly donned.
Starting and operating radio life-saving appliances.
Launching and recovery of a survival craft.
Manoeuvring the lifeboat in the water.
On board passenger ships an abandon ship drill must be performed:
When passenger ships are engaged on international voyages (except for short ones) musters of the passengers must be performed within:
24 hours after their embarkation.
1 week after their embarkation.
48 hours after their embarkation.
Immediately after their embarkation.
What is the term used to identify the division that stops the flames until the end of the first half hour in a standard test of fire exposition, taking into account that the average temperature of the non-exposed face doesn’t rise more than 139 °C above the initial temperature, and also that the temperature at any place does not rise more than 140 °C above the initial temperature in the interval of 15 minutes?
Which of the following areas may be possible restricted areas? Review all answers.
Which of these statements about profiling is correct?
Verify that answers to questions match up with what’s already known about the person being questioned.
Check the ID of all visitors and some crew prior to boarding.
Pay less attention to body language and behaviour and more attention to answers to questions.
Use only open-ended questions.
In order to extinguish a flammable liquid of the same kind as alcohol, we can use:
Mention some important thoughts for what you have to do when you recognise that fire break out onboard:
Report to bridge or duty officer, actuate the fire alarm, call the persons around the fire and join the fire squad.
Commence fighting the fire, call the persons around the fire and join the fire squad.
Report to bridge or duty officer, actuate the fire alarm, organise and commence fighting the fire.
Go to the lifeboat start the motor then call the duty officer and commence fight the fire.
Where do you find minimum drill requirements?
In the SOLAS convention and its annex.
In classification society rules.
In manager’s instructions.
A Ship Security Assessment is integral to the creating of your ship’s security plan:
How many buoyant smoke signals are carried in each liferaft with SOLAS A pack?
How often must the Emergency Steering Gear be tested, and how is this information recorded in the OLB?
Every 3 months. Details of test with signatures of Master and witness.
Fortnightly, with signature of Chief Engineer and witness.
Monthly, with signature of Chief Engineer and witness.
Monthly, with signature of person carrying out test.
An immersion suit which has its own buoyancy is fitted with:
A light plus a whistle plus a knife.
Who is responsible for issuing an ISPS certificate?
What is the minimum capacity of the portable tank of a portable foam applicator?
Which of these are indicators that an individual may be a drug smuggler?
The individual wears bulky or out of season clothing.
The individual spends his or her free time hanging out with others.
The individual makes small local purchases.
The individual is disinterested in the ship’s cargo.
Poster or signs shall be provided on or in the vicinity of survival craft and their launching controls. Which one of the following requirements has to be included?
Give relevant instructions and warnings.
Give information on survival craft capacity.
Give an overview of location of all lifesaving appliances.
Give information on survival craft speed and seaworthiness.
The mandatory color of a hand flare is:
In a liquid fire the surface of which is about 100 m2:
Flames are usually higher than the diameter of the fire.
The radiated heat can spread to exposures placed 200 m away.
The radiated heat is lower than the conducted heat.
The radiated heat can spread to exposures placed 100 m away.
Which type of equipment can be used to detect explosives?
The International Maritime Bureau Piracy Reporting Centre attributes the increased numbers of hijackings to:
The greater involvement in piracy of well-organized and armed crime networks.
Easy access to military weapons.
Higher crime rates around the world.
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.
Which of the following prevention actions offers the guarantee of an efficient intervention in an emergency?
The installation of protective measures.
Planning of the emergency.
In case of diesel driven fire pumps, for how long shall the fuel tank capacity allow the pump to be run at full capacity? (SOLAS-II-2/4.3.3.2.3).
Is it compulsory for a cargo ship to be divided into main vertical zones?
Yes, it is, but they need not be bounded by class “A-60” bulkheads.
It depends on the gross tonnage of the vessel.
When reasonable and practicable, how often shall rescue boats be launched with their assigned crew aboard and manoeuvred in the water?
On a dark night with a clear atmosphere, the outside manually controlled lamp of a liferaft is visible at minimum at a distance of:
Where can you find what your duties are during a lifeboat drill?
Stated at the embarkation station.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Manually operated call point.
What is a polar (liquid)?
A liquid that mixes with water.
A liquid that conducts electricity.
A liquid that doesn’t mix with water.
A liquid that emits flammable vapour.
The duty engineer of a UMS ship is approached by a member of the ship’s staff, seeking permission to hang wet working clothes in the engine room to dry. He should:
Not allow the clothes to be hung anywhere in the unmanned machinery spaces.
Allow the clothes to be hung over rail next to the warm FO service tanks.
Allow the clothes to be hung over a rail provided there is no electrical equipment directly below.
Allow the clothes to be hung over a rail anywhere.
For a search to be effective it must be:
Inclusive of all personnel.
Conducted by personnel with limited knowledge of the ship’s layout.
Water is the extinguishing agent which is the most widely employed and its action as an extinguishing agent is due to a combination of the following phenomena:
Cooling, smothering and dispersion.
Smothering and inhibition.
Smothering and dispersion.
Cooling, inhibition and dispersion.
Part way through a profiling interview with a supplier, the package the individual is carrying arouses your suspicion. What do you do?
Discreetly inform someone of your suspicious so he or she can get assistance.
Call for help on the radio.
Take the package and open it.
Confront the individual and demand that he open the package.
Which one of the listed requirements regarding abandon ship drills corresponds to present SOLAS regulation?
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.
All lifeboats shall be lowered during drills.
On ships on short international voyages, each lifeboat shall be launched and manoeuvred in the water at least every 6 months.
Drills shall be conducted when the ship is in a harbour.
After smoking, cigarettes should be disposed off as follows:
Disposed of in an ashtray, ensuring that it is extinguished.
Dropped over the side only if you are certain they are extinguished.
Dropped over the lee side only so that it cannot blow back on board.
Dropped into a waste bin.
Which of these statements about drug smuggling is true?
The risks to ships are not restricted to specific areas or trading routes.
Drugs are difficult to conceal onboard a ship.
The preventative measures you incorporate into your ship’s security plan should be exhaustive, regardless of the level of threat identified by your ship’s security assessment.
Drug smuggling is only a problem in certain ports, so only ships sailing in those ports need to implement preventative measures.
The necessary elements to create fire are:
Combustible, oxygen, heat and chain reaction.
Combustible, oxygen, flames and chain reaction.
Combustible, air, flames and gas.
Which of the following measures should be applied when hot work is to be undertaken in a harbour?
To have a hot-work permit.
To maintain a permanent fire watch of at least four persons.
All the answers are good.
To use only intrinsically safe equipment in the area where hot-work is performed.
Which statement about the use of profiling onboard a ship is true?
A random selection process must be established.
Detection equipment can be used in place of profiling.
Profilers need at least half an hour to gather the information they need.
Only visitors can be profiled.
A 6-men inflatable liferaft shall be carried as far forward as is reasonable and practicable. Where is the best stowing position?
In a locker in forecastle.
Aft of the forecastle secured with wire, turnbuckle and slip hook.
All forward on the forecastle and secured with the use of a hydrostatic release device.
The extinguishing agent which can be applied on any fires of class A, B or C is:
What is the minimum number of “international shore connections” that should be provided on vessels of 500 gross tonnage and upwards?
0. Such connections only have to be provided on vessels over 1 000 gross tonnage.
As regards the launching and recovery arrangements for rescue boats which is required among the following:
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.
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.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Combustible, oxygen, heat and chain reaction.
Combustible, oxygen, flames and chain reaction.
Combustible, air, flames and gas.
Generally the fixed sprinkler fire extinguishing system will be:
High pressure water system.
Which of the following duties shall be included in the “muster list” as being assigned to members of the crew?
Preparation and launching of the survival craft.
Preparation of immersion suits for the ship’s passengers.
Preparation of manoeuvres intended to ease launching of the survival craft.
Operation of the vessel’s propulsion system.
A person wearing lifejacket or immersion suit, shall be able to turn from a face-down to a face-up position in not more than:
Give the meaning of this symbol:
Lifebuoy with light and smoke.
Lifebuoy with line and smoke.
Which of these procedures should crew follow when conducting a bomb search?
Stand quietly in various spots around the space, listening for unusual sounds like the tick tock of a clock mechanism.
Wait in the area they’ve finished searching until they’re contacted for a status update.
Conduct random or spot checks of logical threat areas.
Search the perimeter of the space up to a height of 5 feet.
The best way to prevent stowaways from boarding your ship is to:
Seal spaces that are not in use while in port, and perform a search of the ship before leaving.
Conduct a Nominated Officers search.
Conduct routine, but irregular searches of the ship.
Search the ship when you arrive at port and again just after leaving.
Which of following are security duties?
Checking ID of visitors onboard.
Monitoring of restricted areas.
Calibration of security equipment.
Which one of the listed requirements regarding the stowage of rescue boats corresponds to present SOLAS regulations. Rescue boats shall be stowed:
So that neither the rescue boat nor its launching arrangements will interfere with any survival craft at any other launching station.
Attached to launching appliances.
Wherever space is available.
In a state of readiness for launching in not more than 2 minutes.
Which two persons check the Declaration of Security?
The Port Facility Security Officer and the Ship Security Officer.
The local Police Officer and Ship Security Officer.
The Company Security Officer.
The local Coast Guard Officer.
What is the minimum number of immersion suits that are required to be provided for each open lifeboat under SOLAS rules?
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?
Which of these statements about drug smugglers modes of operating is true?
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.
Individual enterpreneurs usually smuggle large quantities of drugs.
An organized conspiracy usually smuggles a small amount of drugs.
Drugs hidden by individual enterpreneurs are usually difficult to detect.
What is the minimum capacity required of the emergency fire pump?
Not less than 40 % of total capacity of main pumps, but in any case not less than 25 m3/h.
Not less than 20 % of total capacity of main pumps, but in any case not less than 250 m3/h.
Not less than 40 % of total capacity of main pumps, but in any case not less than 250 m3/h.
Not less than 20 % of total capacity of main pumps, but in any case not less than 25 m3/h.
Where on board would you find out which fire sections are enclosed by “A” or “B” bulkheads and decks?
On the fire control plans.
On the general arrangement plan.
All the mentioned alternatives.
Which of these statements about drug smuggling is true?
The risks to ships are not restricted to specific areas or trading routes.
Drugs are difficult to conceal onboard a ship.
Drug smuggling is only a problem in certain ports, so only ships sailing in those ports need to implement preventative measures.
The purpose of profiling is to:
Get beneath the outer shell of an individual to obtain a more complete picture.
Make judgements about people based on heir appearance.
Categorize people on their nationality and ethnicity.
Identify different personality types.
What are the conditions that influence the efforts for organising the fire-fighting?
Where the fire breaks out, how many fire teams are available, the strength of the fire, the ships mobility, what is burning and communication.
Where the fire breaks out, how many fire teams are available, what is burning, distance to the fire station.
Where the fire breaks out, the ships mobility, distance to the fire station and the size of the fire brigade.
Distance to the fire station and the size of the fire brigade, what is burning, possibility to get water.
Besides certain other factors, a BOILOVER takes place:
When the container also contains water.
When the product is a combustible liquid.
If the tank has a floating roof.
When the container is nearly full.
During test and/or maintenance work of the CO2 system affecting the release system, precautions to ensure that the gas is not released into the engine room due to a mistake are to be ensured. What precautions should be taken?
The main supply line to be blanked off prior to the work.
Arrange a watchman in the CO2 central.
No special precautions necessary.
Check the main valve for a potential leakage.
How often shall crew members participate in fire drills?
Which of the following may cause a fire in the accommodation spaces?
All the mentioned alternatives.
Overloading electric plugs.
Covering electric heaters with blankets.
In which of these circumstances can your ship request a DoS?
Your ship is conducting activities with a port or ship that is not required to implement an approved security plan.
Your ship is operating at a lower security level than the ship or port it is interfacing with.
Your ship has added a new port to its list of ports of call.
There is a heightened security risk for your ship and a port facility.
A safety valve is sufficient to prevent a BLEVE.
Wrong, if the valve is wrongly set.
Wrong, it depends on the product.
A detector that is activated by a rise of temperature is:
In order to achieve a greater effectiveness when using a permanent system of extinction with gases (for example CO2), we must:
Activate the alarm, evacuate the area and seal the place, then activate the extinction system.
Activate the extinction system before we activate the alarm.
Check the valves, seal the area and activate the extinction system.
Only activate the alarm, then the extinction system.
A lifejacket is so constructed that a person can correctly don it within a period of:
Oily rags and metal turnings:
Are a fire hazard because they are liable to spontaneous combustion.
Are not a fire hazard at all.
Are not a fire hazard unless ignited.
Are a fire hazard because they generate their own oxygen when ignited and are therefore difficult to extinguish.
When passenger ships are engaged on international voyages (except for short ones) musters of the passengers must be performed within:
24 hours after their embarkation.
Immediately after their embarkation.
48 hours after their embarkation.
1 week after their embarkation.
You are on board a cargo ship. The ship is heavily listing to starboard, making impossible the launching of the survival craft stowed on this side. Lifeboats and liferafts are equally distributed on each side of the vessel. What should be the total number of persons that can be accommodated in the remaining survival craft stowed on the port side? (*) N is the total number of persons that vessel is permitted to carry:
At least 200 % N (lifeboat capacity: 100 % N; liferaft capacity: 100 % N) (*).
At least 100 % N (lifeboat capacity: 50 % N; liferaft capacity: 50 % N) (*).
At least 150 % N (lifeboat capacity: 100 % N; liferaft capacity: 50 % N) (*).
At least 150 % N (lifeboat capacity: 50 % N; liferaft capacity: 100 % N) (*).
Halons are decomposed into toxic products when they are applied at temperatures near:
Which of air and water is the fluid that transfers the greatest amount of heat during the same time, given that the fluid is not flowing along the immersed body?
Both are transferring equally.
Air if the temperature of the fluid is 10 °C; water if temperature of the fluid is < 10 °C.
As a general rule, what is the minimum flash point of an oil used as a liquid fuel on board?
The analyses of the smoke produced by a fire, may give an interpretation of that fire. Which are the factors we should take into account?
Opacity, amount and colour.
There is no possible interpretation of a fire according to the smoke.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Area protected by sprinkler.