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?
Your answer is correct:
10 minutes.
2
The grabline of a lifebuoy has a length of:
Your answer is correct:
4 times the outer diameter of the lifebuoy.
3
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Your answer is correct:
Space protected by foam.
4
During abandon ship exercise, what life-saving equipment must be demonstrated?
Your answer is correct:
Wearing and fastening of lifejackets and associated equipment.
5
A lifejacket has sufficient buoyancy and stability to lift the mouth of an unconscious person at a minimum of:
Your answer is correct:
120 mm above the water (in calm water).
6
In order to achieve a greater effectiveness when using a permanent system of extinction with gases (for example CO2), we must:
Your answer is correct:
Activate the alarm, evacuate the area and seal the place, then activate the extinction system.
7
When mustered to an abandon ship drill, what is the first thing you do when entering the muster station?
Your answer is correct:
Put on a life jacket.
8
A class “D” fire involves what type of material?
Your answer is correct:
Metals.
9
One of the risks of using CO2 is the low temperatures that it reaches when it vaporises; this temperature is approximately:
Your answer is correct:
-79 °C.
10
After smoking, cigarettes should be disposed off as follows:
Your answer is correct:
Disposed of in an ashtray, ensuring that it is extinguished.
11
How do the extinguishing agents act?
Your answer is correct:
By cooling, smothering, combustible suppression, inhibition.
12
During a bomb search, which of the following is an important principle to follow?
Your answer is correct:
Do not touch any suspicious packages.
13
An immersion suit which has its own buoyancy is fitted with:
Your answer is correct:
A light plus a whistle.
14
The steps of the embarkation ladder must be proportioned as it follows:
Your answer is correct:
Length = 480 mm, breadth = 115 mm, depth = 25 mm.
15
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?
Your answer is correct:
Nominated officers search.
16
Hand flares and buoyant smoke signals can continue to burn or emit smoke after having been immersed for a period of 10 s.
Your answer is correct:
Right, if the immersion depth is smaller than 100 mm.
17
Which of following are security duties?
Your answer is correct:
All alternatives.
18
An optical fire detector head is activated by:
Your answer is correct:
The visible smoke that is a result of combustion.
19
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Your answer is correct:
Foam monitor gun.
20
An immersion suit will not sustain burning or continue melting after being totally enveloped in a fire for a period of:
Correct answer:
2 sec.
Your Answer:
20 sec.
21
What is the main advantage of a positive pressure breathing apparatus?
Your answer is correct:
If the face mask has a leak toxic fumes/smoke would still not enter the mask.
22
What alarm signal must be sounded by the alarm bells in case of fire?
Correct answer:
The signal which is stated in the muster list.
Your Answer:
A continuous signal.
23
Who is responsible for the development of the Ship Security Plan?
Your answer is correct:
The Company Security Officer.
24
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:
Your answer is correct:
1,5 °C per hour after the first 0,5 h immersion in calm water at a temperature of 5 °C.
25
What is the minimum capacity required of the emergency fire pump?
Your answer is correct:
Not less than 40 % of total capacity of main pumps, but in any case not less than 25 m3/h.
26
Which of these weapons are widely available and commonly used by criminals and terrorists to further their aims?
Your answer is correct:
Gun.
27
The International Maritime Bureau Piracy Reporting Centre attributes the increased numbers of hijackings to:
Your answer is correct:
The greater involvement in piracy of well-organized and armed crime networks.
28
From the list below, which is among the recommended actions for a vessel to take, on entering an area known for pirate activity?
Your answer is correct:
To transit with maximum safe speed.
29
Which of the following items must be included in each fire drill?
Your answer is correct:
All the items mentioned.
30
Which one of the listed fire-extinguishing medium is to be preferred to fight a fire in an electric installation (for example the main switchboard)?
Your answer is correct:
Powder.
31
Proteinic foams have the feature of being?
Correct answer:
Of low expansion, viscous and solid, easily contaminated by hydrocarbons.
Your Answer:
Of high expansion, not easily contaminated by hydrocarbons.
32
According to SOLAS, every persons assigned to crew the rescue boat or assigned to the marine evacuation system party shall be provided with:
Correct answer:
An immersion suit or an anti-exposure suit.
Your Answer:
An thermal protective aid and a lifejacket.
33
When handling drugs:
Your answer is correct:
Wear skin protection and a facemark.
34
The minimum number of lifebuoys required on passenger ships depends on:
Your answer is correct:
The length of the ship.
35
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Your answer is correct:
Survival craft distress pyrotechnic signals.
36
Which one of the following is a limitation on the use of chemical powders?
Your answer is correct:
All the below mentioned alternatives.
37
May an engine room be only protected by a fixed low expansion foam fire-extinguishing system?
Your answer is correct:
No.
38
What are the main components of the atmospherical air?
How is the activation of any detector or manually operated call point of fixed fire-detection and fire-alarm systems to be indicated? (SOLAS II-2/13.1.4).
Correct answer:
By visual and audible signal at the control panel and indicating units.
Your Answer:
By all the indication methods listed.
41
Which of the following duties shall be included in the “muster list” as being assigned to members of the crew?
Your answer is correct:
Preparation and launching of the survival craft.
42
What is the maximum allowed suction head for fire pumps? (SOLAS II-2/4.3.3.2.5).
Your answer is correct:
4,5 metres.
43
Which of the following are frequent causes of fires in accommodation?
Your answer is correct:
1 – Smoking in bed, 2 – Covering of electric fires with blankets, 3 – overloading electric plugs.
44
How many Radar Transponder (SART) are required to be carried onboard a ship for use in survival crafts?
Correct answer:
One on each side of the ship.
Your Answer:
2, one of which being capable of floating free if the ship sinks.
45
What is the minimum number of immersion suits that are required to be provided for each open lifeboat under SOLAS rules?
Your answer is correct:
3.
46
Which one of the listed requirements regarding abandon ship drills corresponds to present SOLAS regulation?
Your answer is correct:
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.
47
Which of the following requirements regarding life-buoys correspond to present regulations? (SOLAS III/7.1).
Your answer is correct:
Not less than half the total number of lifebuoys shall be provided with self-igniting lights.
48
The best way to identify an IED is to:
Your answer is correct:
Recognize its components.
49
What are the tricing pendants made for?
Your answer is correct:
They automatically prevent any gap between the ship side and the lifeboat at the first stage of its launching.
50
On all UMS operated vessels and also on most other vessels the engine room is equipped with fire detectors. What requirements of testing and checking of the detectors are to be observed?
Your answer is correct:
All the mentioned alternatives.
51
Who is responsible for completing the DoS on behalf of the ship?
Your answer is correct:
Ship Security Officer.
52
What is the minimum length of the buoyant lifeline that is fitted to a lifebuoy which is stowed at a distance of 10 metres above the waterline (light condition)?
Your answer is correct:
30 metres.
53
Which of these types of information is considered sensitive?
Your answer is correct:
Voyage itinerary and departure and arrival times.
54
Which of the following is a combustion reaction?
Your answer is correct:
All the answers are good.
55
Which one of the listed requirements regarding lifeboat equipment correspond to present regulations? The normal equipment of every lifeboat shall include:
Your answer is correct:
A survival manual.
56
What is the greatest interest of the “help” position?
Your answer is correct:
It lessens the survivor’s heat escape.
57
Which one of the following items has to be included in an abandon ship drill according to SOLAS regulations?
Your answer is correct:
Checking that life-jackets are correctly donned.
58
The necessary elements to create fire are:
Your answer is correct:
Combustible, oxygen, heat and chain reaction.
59
On a dark night with a clear atmosphere, the outside manually controlled lamp of a liferaft is visible at minimum at a distance of:
Your answer is correct:
2 mile.
60
Which of these actions should crew take if a suspicious object that may be a bomb is located during a search?
Your answer is correct:
Confirm with their search partner that the object found is suspicious.
61
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:
Your answer is correct:
Cooling, smothering and dispersion.
62
Having a CO2 alarm during normal working hours, what immediate action should be taken?
Your answer is correct:
Get out of the engine room as soon as possible.
63
Is it compulsory for a cargo ship to be divided into main vertical zones?
Correct answer:
No it is not.
Your Answer:
Yes, it is.
64
Could a lift be considered as an escape route from the engine room?
Your answer is correct:
No.
65
Where is the International Shore Connection to be stored?
Correct answer:
Easy accessible by the gangway.
Your Answer:
In the accommodation.
66
When reasonable and practicable, how often shall rescue boats be launched with their assigned crew aboard and manoeuvred in the water?
Your answer is correct:
Every month.
67
If you detect a fire on board the ship, dependent on the situation, which of the following actions is the first to be taken?
Your answer is correct:
Raise the fire alarm.
68
You have abandoned ship in a liferaft. In most cases, which of the following actions should you generally take?
Your answer is correct:
Organise a lookout system. Join up with other survival craft if possible. Stream the sea anchor.
69
Which statement about the use of profiling onboard a ship is true?
Correct answer:
A random selection process must be established.
Your Answer:
Only visitors can be profiled.
70
During helicopter evacuation of an injured man, what course should the ship steer?
Your answer is correct:
As instructed by the helicopter pilot.
71
What is the factor that makes the difference between a deflagrating and a detonating explosion?
Your answer is correct:
The speed of the shock wave created by the initial combustion.
72
We must clean the spots of oil on hot surfaces because:
Your answer is correct:
All the answers are correct.
73
How much water per person is provided in a liferaft equipped with a desalting apparatus?
Your answer is correct:
1 litre.
74
How would you know how many people a lifeboat is supposed to hold?
Your answer is correct:
The number of persons should be clearly stated on the outside of the boats bow.
75
Generally speaking, what is the value commonly recognised as the maximum concentration of oil vapours allowed in the breathing air of a breathing apparatus?
Your answer is correct:
5 mg/m3.
76
In a liquid fire the surface of which is about 100 m2:
Your answer is correct:
Flames are usually higher than the diameter of the fire.
77
The best way to prevent stowaways from boarding your ship is to:
Your answer is correct:
Seal spaces that are not in use while in port, and perform a search of the ship before leaving.
78
When is a visitor onboard required to present an ID?
Your answer is correct:
On SECURITY Level 1, 2 & 3.
79
You can reduce the need for security guards in certain areas by installing: