Test online for Deck department, Management level, Oil Tanker (CES v6.0)
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The test consisted of 80 random questions.
Total questions on this topic: 301
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1
On a ship involved in a collision, what should happen immediately after the accident has taken place?
Your answer is correct:
Crew should follow an emergency procedure.2
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.3
You are witness to a collision between two other ships close to your vessel. What immediate action should you take?
Your answer is correct:
Nothing, just standby and wait to see if any assistance is required.4
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.5
The Explosimeter is an instrument to measure:
Your answer is correct:
The composition of hydrocarbon gas/air mixtures in a tank atmosphere.6
Notification logging procedures (OPA-90):
Your answer is correct:
Every report or message must be logged including time and date.7
You are on a sailing vessel, underway in open water. This vessel is sighted on the starboard bow, on a steady bearing and the distance is closing. By the International Regulations for the Preventing Collisions at Sea, what action will you follow?
Your answer is correct:
By Rule 18, a power-driven vessel underway shall keep out of the way of a sailing vessel. I will maintain my course and speed, but will continue to monitor situation to ensure the other vessel takes avoiding action.8
A tanker in ballast, having recently left the discharge port is involved in a collision. The two vessels are still interlocked after the collision and a survey of the ships gives all crew members are safe and the damage is focussed to the vicinity of the impact. What should be the greatest concern at this time?
Your answer is correct:
The ships moving together in the swell/seaway will cause a spark and consequently an explosion.9
The diagram shows the direction that a rope runs during a mooring operation and a possible place where it may break. Where would be considered the safest position to stand?
Your answer is correct:
Outside the blue coloured zone.10
Which mooring lines are shown in this picture?
Your answer is correct:
The forward head lines are visible in this picture.11
When a vessel arrives at a port to pick up a pilot and enter harbour, there should be someone required to stand by the anchor forward. How should the anchor be prepared and ready?
Your answer is correct:
The brake securely applied, all cement/covering into the chain locker and securing arrangements from windlass removed. The guillotine can remain for removal when ready.12
What is 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?
Your answer is correct:
Not less than 760 mm.13
On a conventional rudder, how much lift force remains if the rudder-angle is decreased to 20 degrees, from an initial 35 degrees?
Your answer is correct:
About 80 %.14
Via Inmarsat-C a message is sent to an Inmarsat-C mailbox with a positive delivery notification (PDN). The ground station will:
Your answer is correct:
Send a PDN, if the message has arrived in the mailbox.15
Regular “updating” of a ships position in an Inmarsat-C installation is necessary:
Your answer is correct:
To have the correct position in case of accidents.16
MARPOL – Annex IV. Prevention of Pollution by Sewage from ships. What do you understand by the word “Sewage”?
Your answer is correct:
Drainage/waste from toilets/urinals.17
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.18
What are the three diameters of fire hoses most commonly found on ships?
Your answer is correct:
25, 45 or 70 mm.19
The scantling draft of an oil tanker fitted with segregated ballast tanks is:
Correct answer:
The draught for which the structural strength of the ship has been designed.Your Answer:
The draught on which the fundamental design parameters are based.20
The oil product particularly associated with the danger of contracting leukaemia through exposure to its vapours is:
Your answer is correct:
Benzene.21
The display of the DSC-controller on board is showing the following lines: TX call: Selectiveto: 02114200; Category: RoutineUSB:telephony; DSC Tx 2 189,5 kHz save>send
Correct answer:
F1B.Your Answer:
J3E.22
How would you alert others onboard if you saw a person falling overboard?
Your answer is correct:
If I saw a person falling overboard I would shout repeatedly, “Man overboard”.23
What is the MARPOL definition of a “high-viscosity substance”?
Correct answer:
A noxious liquid substance in category “X” or “Y” with a viscosity equal to or greater than 50 mPa·s at the unloading temperature.Your Answer:
A noxious liquid substance in category “Y” with a viscosity equal to or greater than 100 mPa·s at 37,8 °C.24
When in-service testing a hose used for cargo transfer on an oil tanker (and for which the elongation of the hose assembly when new was greater than 2,5 %), the maximum permitted elongation before the hose must be withdrawn from service should be:
Correct answer:
Not more than 1,5 times the temporary elongation measured when the hose assembly was new, as documented in the manufacturer’s certificate.Your Answer:
Not more than 1,5 times the temporary elongation measured at the previous in-service test, as documented in the ship’s annual test record.25
The operating mode of a pyrotechnic signal depends essentially on:
Your answer is correct:
Instructions or diagrams printed on its casing by the manufacturer.26
When you are on watch during a stay in port, what should you always ensure is ready at the head of the gangway?
Your answer is correct:
Life buoy with line.27
If W = Displacement, L = length, B = Breadth, D = depth of vessel, Cb = Block Coefficient, Cw = Coefficient of Waterplane, RD = Relative Density, then:
Your answer is correct:
W = L×B×D×Cb/RD.28
During helicopter evacuation of an injured man, what course should the ship steer?
Your answer is correct:
As instructed by the helicopter pilot.29
Master of every ship must provide:
Your answer is correct:
A link between the shipboard training officer and the company training officer ashore.30
What is the disadvantage of using chemicals on an oil-spill on the water?
Your answer is correct:
The chemicals make it difficult to remove the oil from the water.31
What is usually the effect on G when the ship is damaged with water ingress?
Your answer is correct:
It lowers.32
A “Pellistor” is:
Your answer is correct:
It is a sensor that can be used in a combustible gas indicators to detect and measure flammable gas concentration as a percentage of its lower flammable limit.33
A vessel has been in involved in a collision. Which procedure should happen immediately?
Your answer is correct:
There is assessment of the damage stability.34
After disconnecting the telex connection via a LES, the time period is stated based on:
Your answer is correct:
The time in minutes, or parts of it, when the landline was used.35
What do you understand by the term “Risk Assessment”, and how would this be carried out on board?
Your answer is correct:
Identify the hazards, quantify the risks, put control measures in place, monitor the work activity and review.36
When an inhibitor is added to an oil cargo, the items mentioned on the accompanying certificate include:
Your answer is correct:
Inhibitor name; amount added; date added; period of efficiency; precautions if voyage length exceeds that period; eventual temperature limitation.37
What is the period of validity of the Safety Management Certificate?
Your answer is correct:
5 years.38
Which statement best describes what happens to the vessel symbol on an ECDIS set in North-up, true motion mode?
Your answer is correct:
Vessel symbol moves across the screen.39
The calibration of the ODME is carried with the use of:
Your answer is correct:
Fresh water.40
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.41
With a davit launched lifeboat, what weight is required by SOLAS regulations to be used for the 5 yearly test of the davit and brake system?
Your answer is correct:
1,1 times the total weight of the lifeboat when loaded with its full complement of persons and equipment.42
What is the result of an “unusually large metacentric height”?
Your answer is correct:
The vessel will roll violentrly.43
… 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.44
Which of these conventions is The International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code a part of?
Your answer is correct:
SOLAS.45
Inmarsat Telex Service code “31” can be used:
Your answer is correct:
To ask for maritime inquiries.46
What is the probable cause of an error in the position shown on a GPS receiver set into “2D” fixing?
Your answer is correct:
Incorrect height of the antenna set into the receiver.47
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.48
Which VHF channel should be used for intership navigation safety communications?
Correct answer:
Ch. 13.Your Answer:
Ch. 16.49
If a DSC distress alert is received on board your ship, what is the first action that should be taken?
Your answer is correct:
Listen for a distress message on the appropriate radio frequency for five minutes.50
Which option best describes how an operator establishes what an isolated danger symbol represents, when seen on the chart display of an ECDIS?
Your answer is correct:
Interrogate it and ask for a pick or information report.51
In open water, you see a collision between two other ships. What immediate action should you take?
Your answer is correct:
Nothing, proceed on passage unless they are in distress.52
What is the main hazard associated with entry into an enclosed space?
Your answer is correct:
The atmosphere inside may contain insufficient oxygen to support life, or toxic vapours, or both.53
Which VHF channel should be used for intership navigation safety communications?
Your answer is correct:
Ch. 13.54
On the figure there are four (4) possible definitions of the term “BREADTH” given. Which one is the correct one?
Your answer is correct:
Breadth is given by B on the figure.55
The receipt of a distress alert is to be pronounced as followed:
Correct answer:
Mayday (1x), call-sign of ship in distress (3x) / this is / own call-sign (3x) / received mayday.Your Answer:
Mayday (1x) / this is / own call-sign (3x) received mayday.56
A DSC-message of the “safety” category is received from another vessel on VHF channel 70. Conforming to the GMDSS rules, for the continuation of the safety traffic, you must change to VHF-channel:
Your answer is correct:
16.57
Which of the following two digits codes is used to obtain medical advice?
Your answer is correct:
32.58
You are to load a number of chemical cargoes in Rotterdam in December, for eventual discharge in Australia, after the ship has called at Singapore and Malaysia. None of the cargoes on board at any stage of the voyage require heating. None of the tanks to be discharged in Singapore and Malysia will require hot washing after discharge. What will need to be considered when determining the filling limits of the tanks containing the Australian cargoes?
Your answer is correct:
The maximum anticipated temperature that the cargoes will reach bearing in mind ambient air and sea temperatures to be encountered on passage, so that any expansion does not result in overflow.59
“Door to door” shipment is covered under:
Your answer is correct:
A Through Bill of Lading.60
Part way through a profiling interview with a supplier, the package the individual is carrying arouses your suspicion. What do you do?
Your answer is correct:
Discreetly inform someone of your suspicions so he or she can get assistance.61
What is the purpose of girders in the tank?
Your answer is correct:
They support the stiffeners and also take up some of the sea forces.62
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 & 16.63
Under most circumstances, how will communication be carried out between a ship and a SAR helicopter?
Correct answer:
On VHF Ch. 16.Your Answer:
On 121,5 MHz.64
If the relief for the bridge lookout does not appear at the end of the watch, when required, what should be the actions of the existing lookout?
Your answer is correct:
He should inform the Officer of the Watch and wait for instructions.65
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.66
If one requires medical advice by means of an Inmarsat-C terminal one should use the following address:
Your answer is correct:
32.67
In which ways is heat transmitted?
Your answer is correct:
Conduction, convection and radiation.68
As far as possible, all engines in lifeboats and rescue boats should be run:
Correct answer:
For a total period of not less than 5 minutes every month.Your Answer:
For a total period of not less than 10 minutes every week.69
As a result of being in collision with your vessel, the other vessel involved is on fire. What are your responsibilities?
Your answer is correct:
The other vessel is in distress and if possible I will render assistance.70
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.
Your answer is correct:
W = L · B · d · RD.71
Prior to discharging cargo from an oil tanker, “line displacement” is usually conducted to:
Your answer is correct:
Verify the pipeline contents with previous grade have been replaced.72
A class “D” fire involves what type of material?
Your answer is correct:
Metals.73
Master of every ship must provide:
Your answer is correct:
A link between the shipboard training officer and the company training officer ashore.74
Which is the “STARBOARD BOW”, in the figure?
Your answer is correct:
The Starboard bow is indicated by A, in the figure.75
In the diagram, which arrow is pointing at the position known as the “Bridge”?
Your answer is correct:
The Bridge is indicated by A, in the figure.76
Which of the following is a definition of a petroleum product which is “non-flammble”?
Your answer is correct:
Petroleum having a flash point of 60 °C or above, as determined by the closed cup method of test.77
The bridge wheelman has not reported for duty and there is a suspected “Man Overboard” situation on your vessel. The ship has been searched and there is one seaman missing? The vessel turns round and retraces the course back, calling for assistance from other vessels in the vicinity. What should be the focal point for any search pattern to be established?
Your answer is correct:
Determine when the seaman was last sighted concentrate the search round the course line between the last sighting and present position, taking into account any prevailing current.78
The compensation payment by the charterer that is due when a vessel is unable to load/discharge her cargo within the allowed and contracted time is referred to as:
Your answer is correct:
Demurrage.79
Measuring the ullage at a cargo tank would mean:
Your answer is correct:
Measuring the distance from the surface of the cargo to the ullage reference point.80