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Where can specific information be found regarding the action to take in the event of an oil spill while discharging at a US port?
Your answer is correct:
Vessel Response Plan.2
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.3
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.4
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.5
Which word will precede a routine message?
Your answer is correct:
No specific word will precede a routine message.6
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.7
The ODME printouts for tank cleaning operations must be retained on board for a minimum period:
Your answer is correct:
Of 3 years.8
For how long is the health certificate valid for a seafarer in foreign trade?
Your answer is correct:
1 year.9
As per MARPOL, the formula for calculating the minimum draft amidships for crude tankers in ballast condition is:
Your answer is correct:
2,0 + 0,02 L.10
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.11
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.12
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.13
What allowances should be applied to an echo sounder reading, to compare the depth of water with the depth shown on a chart?
Correct answer:
Position of trasducer below the water surface and the height of tide.Your Answer:
A correction that should be applied to the charted depth value shown on the chart.14
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.15
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.16
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Your answer is correct:
Secondary means of escape.17
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.18
At what calendar interval must lifting appliances on board a vessel be suitably tested by a competent person?
Your answer is correct:
5 years.19
A vessel is equipped for all sea areas. In the middle of the Indian Ocean the EGC-receiver appears out of order. Is it still possible to receive MSI-messages?
Your answer is correct:
Yes, with the MF/HF-radio telex.20
During helicopter evacuation of an injured man, what course should the ship steer?
Your answer is correct:
As instructed by the helicopter pilot.21
The rotating jet water outlets on tank cleaning machines used on board oil tankers is called:
Your answer is correct:
Nozzles.22
What statutory certificate is carried onboard to indicate that a tanker is in compliance with Annex 1 of the MARPOL convention?
Your answer is correct:
The International Oil Pollution Prevention (IOPP) Certificate.23
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.24
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.25
What type of search pattern is recommended in the IAMSAR Manual as most effective when the location of the search object is known within relatively close limits?
Correct answer:
Expanding Square Search.Your Answer:
Track Line Search.26
As per the IMDG Code, an “article” is referred to as:
Your answer is correct:
A device that contains a dangerous substance or mixture of substances.27
Every inflatable liferaft, inflatable lifejacket and hydrostatic release units shall be serviced:
Your answer is correct:
Every 12 months.28
The calibration of the ODME is carried with the use of:
Your answer is correct:
Fresh water.29
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:
Your answer is correct:
Not more than 1,5 times the temporary elongation measured when the hose assembly was new, as documented in the manufacturer’s certificate.30
You must not attempt to move a casualty carelessly, if you suspect patient with:
Your answer is correct:
Fractured spine.31
The scantling draft of an oil tanker fitted with segregated ballast tanks is:
Your answer is correct:
The draught for which the structural strength of the ship has been designed.32
What is usually the effect on G when the ship is damaged with water ingress?
Correct answer:
It lowers.Your Answer:
It rises.33
The emergency fire pump is in accordance with good seamanship and precautionary routines run and tested weekly. Routine checks and maintenance are normally carried out by dedicated personnel. To ensure safe and appropriate operation of the pump, would you consider it beneficial that the same dedicated personnel operate the pump in emergencies?
Your answer is correct:
In case of accidents, it is important that a wide range of personnel must be permitted and trained to operate the pump.34
The calibration of the ODME is carried with the use of:
Your answer is correct:
Fresh water.35
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.36
The aerial system of an Inmarsat-C terminal consist of:
Your answer is correct:
An omni-directional aerial.37
Which mooring lines are shown in this picture?
Your answer is correct:
The forward head lines are visible in this picture.38
What is to be considered when deciding the position of the accommodation on an oil tanker?
Your answer is correct:
A single failure of deck or bulkhead shall not allow fumes into the accommodation spaces.39
How many annexes do we find in MARPOL and what is the content of Annex 1?
Your answer is correct:
We find 6 annexes in MARPOL and Annex 1 is the regulations for the prevention of pollution by oil.40
Which of these statements about drug smuggling is true?
Your answer is correct:
The risks to ships are not restricted to specific areas or trading routes.41
When must personal protective equipment be worn?
Your answer is correct:
At all times when identified as a control method with risk assessment.42
Which of these conventions is The International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code a part of?
Your answer is correct:
SOLAS.43
What would be the correct understanding of the term “a ship is directionally unstable”?
Your answer is correct:
The ship requires continual application of the rudder to maintain a steady course.44
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.45
Which of the following groups of chemical cargoes is particularly susceptible to polymerisation, especially through exposure to heat?
Your answer is correct:
Monomers.46
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 prevail.47
Which of the following two digits codes is used to obtain maritime assistance?
Your answer is correct:
39.48
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.49
Where would you find the document relating to the “Condition of Freeboard Assignment” onboard?
Your answer is correct:
With the Loadline Certificate.50
What indicates “MIDSHIPS” in the figure?
Your answer is correct:
Midships is indicated by B, in the figure.51
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.52
According to Rule 35 of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions what sound signal is made by a vessel not under command when in or near an area of restricted visibility?
Your answer is correct:
One prolonged blast, followed by two short blasts, at intervals of not more than two minutes.53
Who is responsible for maintaining the vessel’s structural strength?
Your answer is correct:
The Master.54
The main fire-fighting medium to be used on the cargo area of an oil tanker is:
Your answer is correct:
Foam.55
When describing the characteristics of oil cargoes or oil/water slops, a “mercaptan” is:
Your answer is correct:
A colourless, odorous gas, with a smell similar to rotting cabbage and which is generated naturally by the degredation of natural organisms, as may be found where water has remained under oil for a long time.56
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?
Your answer is correct:
On the basis that, if cargo vapour can be stopped from entering the cargo pump suction inlet, the flow will continue without cavitation.57
The word RADIO is spelled conform the international phonetic alphabet:
Your answer is correct:
Romeo, Alfa, Delta, India, Oscar.58
When handing over the con of a vessel to a pilot, should the Master insist in discussing the passage plan with the pilot while he is there to use his local knowledge and advice on the navigation of the ship?
Your answer is correct:
A passage plan should be discussed between the Master and pilot, when under pilotage in the same way as discussed with the bridge team when deep sea.59
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.60
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.61
Onboard training should be organised in such a way that:
Your answer is correct:
It is an integral part of the overall training plan.62
How many square metres does the IAMSAR Volume 3 manual suggest may be calmed by releasing 200 litres of lubricating oil slowly through a rubber hose with the outlet maintained just above the surface while the ship proceeds at slow speed?
Your answer is correct:
Approx 5 000 square metres.63
What are the three diameters of fire hoses most commonly found on ships?
Your answer is correct:
25, 45 or 70 mm.64
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.65
What is the correct understanding of the term “Bottlescrew”?
Your answer is correct:
A bottlescrew is a metal threaded sleeve which adjusts the length and tension on rigging or stays.66
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.67
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”.68
During cargo or bunker operations, oil response equipment is to be:
Your answer is correct:
Ready for immediate use.69
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.70
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.71
What is the inherent danger in welding/cutting in piping containing freon?
Your answer is correct:
Development of nitrous gases.72
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.73
What general background colour is used on warning signs that indicate emergency or first-aid features, or indicate a safe condition?
Your answer is correct:
Green.74
According to ISGOTT, flue gas that is produced by the burning of a fuel oil that has a high sulphur content will typically contain which of the following amounts of sulphur dioxide?
Your answer is correct:
2 000 ppm.75
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.76
The purpose of expansion couplings to be fitted on the longitudinal pipelines of oil tankers is:
Your answer is correct:
To allow the pipelines to follow the ships flexing movement when pitching.77
A Cargo Ship Equipment Certificate will be issued for:
Your answer is correct:
5 years with control every 12 months.78
The correct method to dispose of any oily/water mixture in the manifold drip-tray is to:
Your answer is correct:
Transfer it to the sloptank and later discharge it to a reception facility.79
As per the IMDG Code, an “article” is referred to as:
Your answer is correct:
A device that contains a dangerous substance or mixture of substances.80