Test online for Deck department, Management level, Oil Tanker (CES v6.0)
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The steps of the embarkation ladder used must be spaced apart by a distance of:
Your answer is correct:
Equally spaced and not less than 300 mm or more than 380 mm.2
What are the duties of an effective bridge look out?
Correct answer:
Keeping a constant observation around the ship.Your Answer:
All of the alternatives specified.3
Notification logging procedures (OPA-90):
Your answer is correct:
Every report or message must be logged including time and date.4
In area A1 the function “Transmission of ship to shore distress alerts” is mainly based on:
Your answer is correct:
The use of VHF DSC.5
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?
Correct answer:
Made fast on a line through the centre lead astern.Your Answer:
Made fast on a line through the centre lead ahead.6
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.7
The recommended guideline for avoiding the risk of electrostatic potential in a mist produced by using oil and water during Crude Oil Washing operations is that:
Your answer is correct:
Before washing begins, any tank that is to be used as a source of oil for Crude Oil Washing should be partly discharged to remove any water that has settled out during the voyage. The discharge of a layer of at least 1 metres necessary for this purpose.8
The mandatory color of a hand flare is:
Your answer is correct:
Red.9
Where would you find the document relating to the “Condition of Freeboard Assignment” onboard?
Your answer is correct:
With the Loadline Certificate.10
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.11
MARPOL – Annex V. Disposal of garbage. Your vessel is in the Red Sea (Special Area) and the Chief Cook is requesting to have some food waste burned in the incinerator. Due to problems with incinerator, you decide to have the waste ground in the Grinder (Lump size max. 25 mm) and disposed off into the sea. Is this prohibited, if not, how far from nearest land is this legal?
Your answer is correct:
12 miles.12
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.13
Within the Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control System, an “overboard discharge control” is defined as:
Your answer is correct:
A device which automatically initiates the sequence to stop the overboard discharge of the effluent in alarm conditions and prevents the discharge throughout the period the alarm prevails.14
What action should be taken by the Officer of the Watch in the event of fire being reported to the bridge during the 00:00 to 04:00 watch?
Your answer is correct:
Sound the Fire Alarm.15
By a “geographical area call” in the DSC-system is meant:
Correct answer:
A DSC-message for all vessels within a certain area marked by a reference position, given in the DSC-message and the degrees are given in southerly and easterly direction.Your Answer:
A DSC-message for all vessels within a certain area from a position in the DSC-message, and the degrees are given in northerly and westerly direction.16
“Door to door” shipment is covered under:
Your answer is correct:
A Through Bill of Lading.17
What kind of safety equipment must be worn during anchoring?
Correct answer:
All of the mentioned equipment.Your Answer:
Safety helmet, safety shoes.18
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.19
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.20
The “dew point” of a liquid chemical is often quoted in the documentation relating to its loading and carriage. 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.21
If for some reason a vessel does not comply with a Classification Society’s requirements, what can a surveyor issue to the vessel enabling it to sail to the next port or for a period of time?
Your answer is correct:
A Condition of Class.22
When loading a static accumulator oil, to minimise the risk of explosion through electrostatic charge in a tank it must be ensured that:
Your answer is correct:
No metallic devices, such as those used for gauging and sampling, should be introduced into the tank during loading and for 30 minutes after completion of loading.23
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.24
A vessel berths at two different jetties under the influence of a 1 knot beam current. At the first jetty the ship has an underkeel clearance of 5 times the draught and at the second the underkeel clearance is only 0,5 times the draught. If the current exerted a force of 50 tonnes on the ship at the first jetty, what would be the approximate force exerted at the second if the draught is the same?
Your answer is correct:
150 tonnes.25
Chemical tankers of 20 000 tonnes DWT or above, with a keel laid on or after 1st July 1986, when carrying flammable products with a flashpoint not exceeding 60 °C, such as those listed in chapters 17 and 18 of the International Bulk Chemical Code, are exempt from the requirement to be fitted with and use an inert gas plant provided certain conditions are met. Which of the following is a summary of those conditions?
Your answer is correct:
The cargo tank does not exceed 3 000 cubic metres capacity/each tank washing machine nozzle does not exceed 17,5 cubic metres per hour delivery rate/the total wash water input to the tank from all tank washing machines does not exceed 110 cubic metres per hour.26
Which one of the following items has to be included in an abandon ship drill according to SOLAS regulations?
Correct answer:
Checking that life-jackets are correctly donned.Your Answer:
Launching and recovery of a survival craft.27
The operating mode of a pyrotechnic signal depends essentially on:
Your answer is correct:
Instructions or diagrams printed on its casing by the manufacturer.28
This device can detect a package of drugs inside a large delivery of ship’s stores. What is it?
Your answer is correct:
Pallet scanner.29
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.30
The IBC Code prescribes certain design conditions for a cargo heating or cooling system fitted to a chemical tanker. What does it require in respect of pressure within such a system, for any condition other than when it is empty?
Correct answer:
That a higher pressure can be maintained within the system than the maximum pressure head that could be exerted by the contents of the cargo tank on that system.Your Answer:
That an automatic alarm is fitted to alert the operator when the pressure within the system drops to within 0,2 bar of the pressure measured at the lowest located cargo pressure sensor within the tank.31
At present the MF/HF transmitter often has an automatic aerial turning unit. Should this fail:
Correct answer:
It’s always possible to put the turning unit in a fixed position, so the MF distress frequencies can still be used.Your Answer:
The transmitter will automatically keep operating on the MF and HF frequencies.32
According to SOLAS, the mechanical ventilation system of the cargo pump room shall be capable of making:
Your answer is correct:
At least 20 air changes per hour.33
An inflatable lifejacket will inflate:
Your answer is correct:
Either automatically on immersion or by a single manual motion or by mouth.34
What is the period of validity of the Safety Management Certificate?
Your answer is correct:
5 years.35
What can be used to reduce the effect of the state of sea-waves?
Your answer is correct:
Vegetable/Fish Oil.36
Why should Ground Stabilised True Motion display mode be avoided when using the ARPA for anti-collision purposes?
Your answer is correct:
The collision regulations are based on ship courses through the water.37
Which statement best describes what happens to the vessel symbol on an ECDIS set in North-up, true motion mode?
Correct answer:
Vessel symbol moves across the screen.Your Answer:
Vessel is stopped on the screen, land moves relative.38
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.39
Which VHF channel should be used for intership navigation safety communications?
Your answer is correct:
Ch. 13.40
What is understood by the term “take the helm”?
Your answer is correct:
Take over the steering of the ship.41
When discussing their chemistry of petroleum cargoes, if “Alkanes” are saturated hydrocarbons, what are unsaturated hydrocarbons?
Your answer is correct:
Alkenes.42
In US waters “Oil Pollution Act of 1990” was activated in August 1993. What is the main issue for the introduction of the act?
Your answer is correct:
To prevent oil spills in US waters.43
That stage of the discharging operation on an oil tanker when the last remaining contents of a tank or line are being pumped out is called:
Your answer is correct:
Stripping.44
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.45
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.46
Which personnel must undergo familiarization training on board?
Your answer is correct:
Everyone.47
Oil tankers of 70 000 tons and above, delivered after 31 December 1979 shall be:
Your answer is correct:
Provided with at least 2 slop tanks.48
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.49
Some centrifugal cargo pumps on oil tankers are designed with an automatic stripping system, which allows the cargo tank to fully discharge its contents. By what principle does such a stripping system operate?
Correct answer:
On the basis that, if cargo vapour can be stopped from entering the cargo pump suction inlet, the flow will continue without cavitation.Your Answer:
By automatically reducing the rate at which oil cargo enters the cargo pump, such that any vapour lifted along with the liquid does not cause a loss of suction.50
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?
Correct answer:
Nominated officers search.Your Answer:
Crew search.51
How many thermal protective aids are carried in each liferaft?
Your answer is correct:
10 % of the number of persons the liferaft is designed to carry, or two, whichever is more.52
For how long is the health certificate valid for a seafarer in foreign trade?
Correct answer:
1 year.Your Answer:
2 years.53
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?
Correct answer:
The “process sector” and the “reactivation sector”.Your Answer:
The “active sector” and the “dormant sector”.54
While navigating using a paper chart marked WGS84 the OOW plots the ships position by four different methods and they all give slightly different positions. Which of the following would be considered the most accurate.
Correct answer:
Radar ranges from two radar destinctive headlands.Your Answer:
GPS set on WGS84 datum.55
When tank cleaning hoses are tested for electrical continuity, they must display a reading of:
Your answer is correct:
Not greater than 6 ohms per metre length.56
The prescribed test of EPIRB, SART and portable VHF radio set must be entered in:
Your answer is correct:
Ship’s radio log.57
A class “D” fire involves what type of material?
Your answer is correct:
Metals.58
How many rocket parachute flares are carried in each liferaft with SOLAS B pack?
Correct answer:
2.Your Answer:
6.59
Which of the following requirements to ships stability for normal operation corresponds to present regulations? (NSCL 4/12.2).
Your answer is correct:
The ship is loaded in such a manner that adequate stability is achieved in all loading condition.60
How is a EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon) activated?
Your answer is correct:
Most EPIRBs are automatically activated when they enter the water.61
If all indications are that a cargo has been received without damages, irregularities or short shipment and the phrase “apparent good order and condition” is entered on the Bill of Lading, then this Bill is this said to be:
Correct answer:
A clean Bill of Lading.Your Answer:
A Bill of Lading completed for shipment.62
The word RADIO is spelled conform the international phonetic alphabet:
Correct answer:
Romeo, Alfa, Delta, India, Oscar.Your Answer:
Radio, Alfa, Delta, India, Oscar.63
During the survey of Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) equipment, which document must be available to the surveyor to demonstrate compliance with SOLAS?
Correct answer:
A report giving the result of the Conformance Test, issued by the Classification Society on behalf of the Flag State Authority.Your Answer:
A Statement of Installation and Testing by the Approved Service Provider in compliance with SOLAS V/26-4.64
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.65
How should you, as helmsman, give feedback to the OOW (officer on watch) that his orders are understood?
Your answer is correct:
By repeating the order.66
On area A3 the function “Reception of shore to ship distress alerts” is mainly based on:
Correct answer:
The use of HF DSC and Inmarsat-C SAFETYNET.Your Answer:
The use of VHF DSC and NAVTEX.67
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.68
Most minor oilspills are caused by:
Your answer is correct:
Human error.69
Which of these conventions is The International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code a part of?
Your answer is correct:
SOLAS.70
During the anchoring procedure, what would the 2nd Officer understand by the following request from the bridge, “How is the chain”?
Your answer is correct:
The bridge would like to know the direction of the anchor cable from the hawse pipe.71
Which is the “STARBOARD BOW”, in the figure?
Your answer is correct:
The Starboard bow is indicated by A, in the figure.72
When a message is sent by the Inmarsat-C installation to an Internet e-mail address, the land charge is:
Correct answer:
Independent of the destination.Your Answer:
Dependent on the “chargeband”.73
What is the meaning of this symbol?
Your answer is correct:
Lifeboat.74
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.75
The time indication 121310z means in maritime radio communication:
Your answer is correct:
12th day, 13:10 hours UTC.76
What is most important for crew members when preparing for emergencies?
Correct answer:
That people are well trained.Your Answer:
That people know where to muster.77
DG placards shall be located on a freight container:
Correct answer:
One on each end and one on each side.Your Answer:
One on each side (only).78
An oil tanker with a defective Oil Discharge Monitoring Equipment may be allowed by a Port State Authority to trade for:
Your answer is correct:
One ballast voyage before proceeding to a repair port.79
On an oil tanker, are there any restrictions as to the maximum amount of treated water that originates from cargo spaces that has passed through a bilge water separator that can be discharged?
Your answer is correct:
Maximum is 30 litre pr nautical mile and total is 1/30 000 part of full cargo on the ballast voyage.80