Test for seamans about Deck department, Management level, Chemical Tanker (CES v6.0)
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The test consisted of 80 random questions.
Total questions on this topic: 196
Total questions on this topic: 196
Your result: 98%
Right answers:
1
During an audit, adherence to the company cargo handling procedures can best be demonstrated:
Your answer is correct:
By being able to provide comprehensive and verifiable documentary records of cargo operations.2
Where would you find the document relating to the “Condition of Freeboard Assignment” onboard?
Your answer is correct:
With the Loadline Certificate.3
Which one of the given requirements regarding survival craft muster and embarkation arrangements corresponds to the present SOLAS regulations?
Your answer is correct:
Muster and embarkation stations shall be readily accessible from accommodation and work areas.4
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.5
Master of every ship must provide:
Your answer is correct:
A link between the shipboard training officer and the company training officer ashore.6
To maintain good relationship among the crew on board a vessel, one must be:
Your answer is correct:
Understanding, Co-operative, and have respect from both sides.7
What immediate action should be taken if a ship unexpectedly runs aground and stops?
Your answer is correct:
Stop engine(s).8
How can an ARPA best assist the bridge team to steer a suitable course to make good the entrance to a channel?
Your answer is correct:
Alter course so that own-ships ground stabilised true vector passes through the entrance to the channel.9
You have just joined a chemical tanker. Where would you find a description of the ship’s cargo handling equipment, details on the ship’s cargo unloading procedures and tank stripping and details on procedures relating to the cleaning of cargo tanks, the discharge of residues, ballasting and deballasting?
Your answer is correct:
The Annex II Procedures and Arrangements Manual.10
Ballast introduced into a cargo tank on a chemical tanker which has been washed to such an extent that the ballast contains less than 1 ppm of the substance previously carried may be discharged into the sea without regard to the discharge rate, ship’s speed and discharge outlet location, but under certain conditions, which require:
Your answer is correct:
That the vessel is not less than 12 miles from the nearest land and is in water that is not less than 25 metres deep.11
Your vessel is involved in a collision with another vessel. What should you as Master tell the Master on the other vessel?
Your answer is correct:
Name of vessel; IMO number; Port of registry; Port of destination of your vessel.12
“Passivation” is a restorative process periodically applied to stainless steel tanks on a chemical tanker. What effect does this process have on the steel surface?
Your answer is correct:
It restores and reforms the passive Chromium Hydroxide surface layer.13
What is the correct setting of the “Anti Sea Clutter” control on the radar?
Your answer is correct:
A few sea returns remaining on the screen.14
The Training Manual shall contain instructions and information on the life-saving appliances and the best method of survival. The training manual shall contain detailed explanations of crew duties in relation to emergency situations. Which of the following tasks or duties shall be included in the manual according to present regulations?
Your answer is correct:
The use of the ship’s line throwing apparatus.15
At least, how often shall life boats be launched with their assigned operating crew aboard and manoeuvred in the water according to SOLAS?
Your answer is correct:
Every 3 months.16
A satellite receives the transmissions of the 406 MHz Cospas-Sarsat EPIRB. The transmissions of the EPIRB will be:
Your answer is correct:
Always passed on to a LUT.17
A tug is connected to the bow of a vessel. Will the force exerted by it be the same at any ahead speed?
Your answer is correct:
No, on the bow the tug uses power to run with the vessel, which reduces the available power on the towline.18
A tank which contained a category “X” product must undergo a prewash before leaving port in compliance with MARPOL. The resulting residues shall be discharged to a reception facility until the concentration of the substance in the effluent, as indicated by analysis of samples of the effluent taken by the authorized surveyor reaches a certain level. What is that level?
Your answer is correct:
0,1 % by weight.19
For security purposes, the IMDG Code should be read in conjunction with the:
Your answer is correct:
Chapter XI-2 of SOLAS and Part A of the ISPS Code.20
A conventional tanker has most of its tanks slack during the discharging of oil cargo, it is not of any great consequence; however, if an OBO has most of its holds slack during discharging (or loading) of oil cargo this will:
Your answer is correct:
Likely cause a sudden or violent list due to the very large free surface in the broad beamed holds?21
Which personnel must undergo familiarization training on board?
Your answer is correct:
Everyone.22
“…a ship… …intended to transport products with appreciably severe environmental and safety hazards which require significant preventative measures to preclude escape of such cargo. Usually the ship is of double-hull construction, with a variety of tank sizes/capacities”. What is this the definition of?
Your answer is correct:
A type II chemical tanker, as per the IBC Code.23
Which Convention first placed on the shipowner an obligation to exercise due diligence to make a ship seaworthy, requiring him “before and at the beginning of a voyage … to … make the ship seaworthy … and … make the holds…and all other parts of the vessel in which goods are carried, fit and safe for their reception, carriage and preservation”?
Your answer is correct:
The Hague-Visby Rules.24
What is false regarding the function “Transmission and reception of on scene communications”.
Your answer is correct:
On area A4 this function is based on the use of HF R/T.25
For how long is the health certificate valid for a seafarer in foreign trade?
Your answer is correct:
One year.26
Under what convention is the master to ensure that a ship is seaworthy and in a fit state to safely carry a shipper’s cargo?
Your answer is correct:
The Hague-Visby Rules.27
To maintain good relationship among the crew on board a vessel, one must be:
Your answer is correct:
Understanding, Co-operative, and have respect from both sides.28
When should a crew member joining a ship for the first time be given some training and instructions in the use of the ship’s fire-fighting appliances?
Your answer is correct:
As soon as possible but not later than 2 weeks after he joins the ship.29
Your vessel is involved in a collision with another vessel. What should you as Master tell the Master on the other vessel?
Your answer is correct:
Name; Port of registry; Port of destination of your vessel.30
DG placards shall be located on a freight container:
Your answer is correct:
One on each end and one on each side.31
What type of dynamic forces may cause indent in plating on forecastle deck and main deck in way of pillars inside forecastle?
Your answer is correct:
Pressure forces caused by green water on deck.32
If the shipper wishes to ensure that a vessel or her operators will not be held responsible for any damage that may arise from the carrier issuing a clean Bill of Lading, even though the Mate’s receipt is marked as “unclean”, such a document is called the:
Your answer is correct:
A Letter of Indemnity.33
Your chemical tanker is fitted with sumbersible deepwell cargo pumps. When stripping a tank, if excessive air is allowed to be drawn into the suction line, which of the following may occur?
Your answer is correct:
The pump will “race” and there will be a loss of suction.34
“Passivation” is a restorative process periodically applied to stainless steel tanks on a chemical tanker. What effect does this process have on the steel surface?
Your answer is correct:
It restores and reforms the passive Chromium Hydroxide surface layer.35
Under what convention is the master to ensure that a ship is seaworthy and in a fit state to safely carry a shipper’s cargo?
Your answer is correct:
The Hague-Visby Rules.36
When loading oil in oil tankers, why are you only allowed to load maximum 98 % of the tank capacity?
Your answer is correct:
Due to temperature expansion.37
It is the Master’s responsibility to ensure that:
Your answer is correct:
Concerned personnel carry out the onboard training programme effectively.38
The mandatory color of a hand flare is:
Your answer is correct:
Red.39
On area A1 the function “Transmission and reception of on scene communications” is mainly based on:
Your answer is correct:
The use of VHF R/T.40
Which one of the listed requirements regarding service and maintenance of life-saving appliances correspond to present regulations?
Your answer is correct:
Instructions for onboard maintenance of life-saving appliances in accordance with the regulations shall be provided.41
A large tanker is proceeding slowly up a narrow channel, using its own engines and assisted by the use of one tug. Where should the tug be connected to assist the ship in maintaining its course in the centre of the channel?
Your answer is correct:
Made fast on a line through the centre lead astern.42
What type of Bill of Lading covers “door to door” shipment?
Your answer is correct:
A Through Bill of Lading.43
A distress alert has accidentally been sent with the Inmarsat-C installation. One should now:
Your answer is correct:
Make contact with an RCC.44
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Your answer is correct:
Rocket parachute flares.45
At what calendar interval must lifting appliances on board a vessel be suitably tested by a competent person?
Your answer is correct:
5 years.46
A SART is used by a vessel in distress. This SART is seen on the screen of a:
Your answer is correct:
3 Cm radar.47
If your chemical tanker is equipped with high velocity venting valves, at what minimum height above the weather deck or catwalk should they be installed?
Correct answer:
6 metres.Your Answer:
3 metres.48
To inform ship of coast-stations messages, coast stations give a fixed times:
Your answer is correct:
A traffic list with the call-sign of the ships involved in alphabetical numerical sequence.49
When a vessel violates the oil pollution laws, who may be held responsible?
Your answer is correct:
Any one involved in the operation.50
Substances, materials and articles shall be stowed as indicated in the Dangerous Goods List of the IMDG Code, in accordance with a series of stowage categories. How are those categories designated?
Your answer is correct:
5 categories, labelled A-E.51
You are on a 10 000 ton chemical tanker that in addition to fixed foam monitors, is equipped with portable foam applicators. One of the applicators is lost. When ordering a new one you would order one with:
Your answer is correct:
A throughput of at least 400 litres a minute and a “throw” of 15 metres?52
The position that is determined by built in GPS-receiver in an Inmarsat-EPIRB has an accuracy of about:
Your answer is correct:
200 metres.53
On area A2 the function “Transmission and reception of on scene communications” is mainly based on:
Your answer is correct:
The use of MF and/or VHF R/T.54
What is the purpose of the “SQUELCH” on a VHF transmitter/receiver?
Your answer is correct:
Reduce the “noise” in the background.55
How often shall crew members participate in fire drills?
Your answer is correct:
Once every month.56
What is the minimum number of channels required for the portable two-way VHF’s for survival craft?
Your answer is correct:
Channels 6, 13 & 16.57
According to the IAMSAR Manual, what is the expected survival time for a person in water of 4-10 °C, without special protective clothing?
Your answer is correct:
Less than 3 hours.58
The minimum permissible distance measured horizontally between the ship’s shell plating and the outer side bulkhead of the first cargo compartment on a type II chemical tanker is:
Your answer is correct:
Not less than 760 mm.59
Not counting actual capacity or structural and cargo specific limitations, the IBC Code states that for a single tank on a type 3 chemical tanker:
Your answer is correct:
There is no filling restriction for a type 3 chemical tanker.60
Ballast introduced into a cargo tank on a chemical tanker which has been washed to such an extent that the ballast contains less than 1 ppm of the substance previously carried may be discharged into the sea without regard to the discharge rate, ship’s speed and discharge outlet location, but under certain conditions. What are those conditions?
Your answer is correct:
That the vessel is not less than 12 miles from the nearest land and is in water that is not less than 25 metres deep.61
Who are responsible for safe working conditions onboard?
Your answer is correct:
Master, Chief Engineer & Chief Officer.62
A cargo pumproom or other enclosed space which contains cargo handling equipment on a chemical tanker shall be fitted with a mechanical ventilation system, capable of being controlled from outside the space. What is the minimum number of atmosphere changes per hour, based on the total volume of the space, that such a system must deliver?
Your answer is correct:
Not less than 30 charges per hour.63
Which of the following is a definition of “dew point”?
Your answer is correct:
The temperature at which a gas is saturated with respect to a condensable component, as in operational terms is seen at the point when air is saturated with moisture.64
In a typical shipboard de-humidifier plant as may be found on a modern chemical tanker, operating on a “rotating bed” principle, what names are given to the two parts of the rotating bed?
Your answer is correct:
The “process sector” and the “reactivation sector”.65
You are to carry a cargo of Phenol across the North Atlantic in winter time. What precaution will you take with the double bottom tank located under the cargo tank containing the Phenol?
Your answer is correct:
It should be empty, to avoid cold water contacted the structure around the product because Phenol has a relatively high melting point.66
What are the three volumes of the IAMSAR Manual?
Your answer is correct:
I – Organization and Management II – Mission Co-ordination III – Mobile Facilities.67
Which of the following groups of chemical cargoes is particularly susceptible to polymerisation, especially through exposure to heat?
Your answer is correct:
Monomers.68
When using an ENC chart to passage planning, why should a scale at or near its compilation scale always be used?
Your answer is correct:
The chart detail is correct for its usage band.69
What significant change to the requirements for the carriage of Vegetable Oils in tankers was introduced by the amendments to MARPOL and the IBC Code on 1st January 2007?
Your answer is correct:
They must now be carried in double-hull tankers.70
By the term “Stand by” the operator of a coast-station means that one should:
Your answer is correct:
Wait until the coast-station calls again.71
The portable walkie talkies required to be carried by GMDSS regulations should have which channels as a minimum?
Your answer is correct:
Channels 6, 13 & 16.72
By what formula is the displacement calculated? W = Displacement; L = length; B = Breadth; D = depth of vessel; Cb = Block Coefficient; Cw = Coefficient of waterplane; RD = relative density.
Correct answer:
W = L×B×d×RD.Your Answer:
W = L×B×d×RD/Cb.73
A DSC distress alert single frequency call attempt is awaiting acknowledgement:
Your answer is correct:
Automatically repeated after 3 and a half to 4 and a half minutes.74
To what pressure will a new length of cargo hose be tested by a manufacturer prior to its supply to a vessel for service onboard a chemical tanker?
Your answer is correct:
Not less than one and a half times its nominal bursting pressure, but not more than four-fifths of its specified maximum working pressure.75
During the survey of Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) equipment, which document must be available to the surveyor to demonstrate compliance with SOLAS?
Your answer is correct:
A report giving the result of the Conformance Test issued by an Application Service Provider on behalf of an Administration.76
With what system is a NAVTEX-message transmitted?
Your answer is correct:
FEC.77
Which personnel must undergo familiarization training on board?
Your answer is correct:
Everyone.78
Referring to the SOLAS convention, how often should a crew member on a cargo ship participate in one abandon ship drill and one fire drill?
Your answer is correct:
Monthly.79
Inmarsat Telex Service code “33” can be used:
Your answer is correct:
When technical problems are experienced with the Inmarsat-terminal.80