The training manual shall contain instructions and information in easily understood terms and illustrated wherever possible. Which of the following objects do not have to be explained in detail in the manual according to present regulations?
Donning of lifejackets and immersion suits.
Donning of fire protection clothing.
If circumstances permit, how should low expansion foam be applied to oil burning near a bulkhead of the engine room?
The applicator should be used in a sweeping motion to spread the foam over the surface.
The foam should be aimed at about 45° upwards so that it can drop onto the fire.
The foam should be applied to the centre of the fire.
The foam should be aimed at the bulkhead behind the fire and allowed to spread out slowly over the fire.
Halons are decomposed into toxic products when they are applied at temperatures near:
The wearer of a lifejacket can jump into the water without injury and without damaging the jacket from a height of at least:
May an engine room be only protected by a fixed low expansion foam fire-extinguishing system?
It depends on the type of vessel.
Yes, if the “engine room” is considered as a machinery space of category A.
What types of fire extinguishers shall be used in the engine room?
Fire extinguishers filled with fresh water only.
Fire extinguishers equipped for powder or CO2 only.
Fire extinguishers of the handy-size types only.
Any fire extinguishers with a weight of less than 100 lbs.
Information about your ship’s security arrangements and procedures is stored electronically. Which of these measures will help safeguard it from potential threats?
Work history verification.
The fire control plan on board is called the safety plan and shall be posted onboard. In port, a copy of this plan shall in addition be available from somewhere else. Where must this copy be available?
Handed over to the surveyors.
In the engine control room.
What is the priority for the ship’s management team when fire breaks out?
The ship’s management team must organise the fire teams and then the teams have to rescue missing personnel.
The ship’s management team and the crew must evacuate the ship.
The ship’s management team must call the nearest fire brigade and police station.
The ship’s management team must fight the fire and then call the fire teams.
Which of these series of sizes corresponds to the international standard for nozzles?
Which of the following detailed explanations should be mentioned in the Training Manual?
How to use navigational equipment for survival crafts.
How to use escape routes and other escape methods.
How to recover survival craft and rescue boats including stowage and securing.
How to use surface to air visual signals to be used by survivors.
The most effective way to combat the threat of drug smuggling is to:
Organize crew into pairs and conduct weekly searches of the ship.
Combining routine, but irregular searches of the ship with spontaneous targeted searches.
Perform spontaneous targeted searches using teams of two or more personnel from the same department.
Perform routine, but irregular searches using teams of two or more personnel from the same department.
Could a lift be considered as an escape route from the engine room?
It depends on the distance of the escape route.
Yes, if it is constructed with class A materials.
Which of these weapons are widely available and commonly used by criminals and terrorists to further their aims?
What is flashpoint of an oil or liquefied gas?
The flashpoint for an oil or liquefied gas is the temperature at which it is possible to ignite the vapour above the liquid.
The flashpoint is the temperature needed to have a oil or liquefied gas pumpable.
The flashpoint is the temperature the oil or liquefied gas need for self ignition.
The flashpoint is the mixture of oxygen and hydrocarbons needed to have an oil or liquefied gas to burn.
Generally the fixed sprinkler fire extinguishing system will be:
High pressure water system.
Which information should be included in your search plan?
Known hiding spots to be searched.
Areas to be searched and personnel to be involved in the search.
Personnel to be involved in the search.
What is the inherent danger in welding/cutting in piping containing freon?
Development of nitrous gases.
Depletion of the ozone layer.
Depletion of oxygen in the air.
Development of explosive gases.
A contractor is hired to install new navigation equipment onboard your ship while it’s berthed. For a period of time he’s left unsupervised and photographs schematics of the ship that he finds rolled up and stored in the corner of a nearby office. Later, from home, he hacks into the network and prints off information about the ship’s security procedures. Which of these information security measures would have prevented his unauthorized access?
Protective markings, reference checks, and passwords.
Secure area, passwords, a firewall and protective markings.
Firewall, protective markings, vetting and a secure network.
Secure area, passwords, a firewall and a secure network.
You have abandoned ship in a liferaft. In most cases, which of the following actions should you generally take?
Organise a lookout system. Join up with other survival craft if possible. Stream the sea anchor.
Join up with any other survival craft and stream the sea anchor.
Organise a lookout system.
Start paddling in the direction of the nearest land.
Where is the International Shore Connection to be stored?
Easy accessible by the gangway.
Together with the cargohoses.
How much water per person is provided in a liferaft equipped with a desalting apparatus?
The pyrotechnic used to transmit visual signals to other vessels, boats or aircrafts are of the following type:
All of the below mentioned.
What method shall be used when hauling survivors out of the sea (state of survivors is critical)?
What is the minimum number of immersion suits that are required to be provided for each open lifeboat under SOLAS rules?
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Which one of the listed requirements regarding life-saving appliances corresponds to present regulations?
All prescribed life-saving appliances shall be made of non-combustible or fire retardant material.
All prescribed life-saving appliances shall be of such a colour that they are in contrast to the surrounding colour.
All prescribed life-saving appliances shall have marking in red colour.
All prescribed life-saving appliances shall be fitted with the manufacturers name and logo.
Every inflatable liferaft, inflatable lifejacket and hydrostatic release units shall be serviced:
Which of the following information shall be specified by the muster list?
The muster list has been prepared and approved by the administration before the ship proceeds to sea.
Action to be taken by crew and passengers.
The specific duties assigned to passengers that are in charge of a group of others.
The abandon ship signal consisting of two long blasts.
What is a polar (liquid)?
A liquid that doesn’t mix with water.
A liquid that conducts electricity.
A liquid that mixes with water.
A liquid that emits flammable vapour.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Lifebuoy with hand flare.
Lifebuoy with light and smoke.
The main buoyancy chamber of an inflatable liferaft must be divided into:
2 compartments separated by a non-return valve.
3 compartments separated by a non-return valve.
As regards the launching and recovery arrangements for rescue boats which is required among the following:
Launching and recovery arrangements shall be such that they can be operated at all times from the bridge.
Different type of launching and recovery arrangements shall be used for similar survival craft on board the ship.
Means shall be available to prevent any discharge of water on to survival craft during abandonment.
Each lifeboat shall be provided with separate appliances which is capable of launching and recovering the lifeboat.
Which of the following areas may be possible restricted areas? Review all answers.
The steps of the embarkation ladder must be proportioned as it follows:
Length = 480 mm, breadth = 115 mm, depth = 25 mm.
Length = 380 mm, breadth = 145 mm, depth = 20 mm.
Length = 580 mm, breadth = 165 mm, depth = 30 mm.
Length = 280 mm, breadth = 85 mm, depth = 10 mm.
Which of the survival craft listed below is equipped with a buoyant line, not less than 50 m in length, of sufficient strength to tow a liferaft?
What is the purpose of the Ship Security Plan?
Detail the duties of shipboard personnel assigned security responsibilities.
Outline the organizational structure for the ship.
Protect your ship from risks posed by security threats or incidents.
Outline specific measures for your ship to move from security level 1 to 2 and from 2 to 3.
The duty engineer of a UMS ship is approached by a member of the ship’s staff, seeking permission to hang wet working clothes in the engine room to dry. He should:
Allow the clothes to be hung over a rail provided there is no electrical equipment directly below.
Allow the clothes to be hung over rail next to the warm FO service tanks.
Allow the clothes to be hung over a rail anywhere.
Not allow the clothes to be hung anywhere in the unmanned machinery spaces.
Is it compulsory for a cargo ship to be divided into main vertical zones?
It depends on the gross tonnage of the vessel.
Yes, it is, but they need not be bounded by class “A-60” bulkheads.
What is the working principle of the detectors of a common fixed sprinkler fire-extinguish system?
They are fixed-temperature detectors.
They are smoke detectors.
They are flame detectors.
They are rate-of-rise detectors.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Survival craft distress pyrotechnic signals.
Where would we find information regarding fire extinguishers, fire doors, remote release buttons, fire equipment etc. onboard a ship?
In the master’s log book.
Which of the following are frequent causes of fires in accommodation?
1 – Smoking in bed, 2 – Covering of electric fires with blankets, 3 – overloading electric plugs.
Covering of electric fires with blankets.
Overloading electric plugs.
Who is responsible for the regular security inspections of the ship?
The Port Facility Security Officer.
The Classification Society.
The Company Security Officer.
The Ship Security Officer.
The operating mode of a pyrotechnic signal depends essentially on:
Instructions or diagrams printed on its casing by the manufacturer.
The fact that the user is on board a liferaft, a lifeboat or ship.
The weather conditions of the moment.
A definite standard process.
Which of the following duties shall be included in the “muster list” as being assigned to members of the crew?
Preparation and launching of the survival craft.
Preparation of manoeuvres intended to ease launching of the survival craft.
Preparation of immersion suits for the ship’s passengers.
Operation of the vessel’s propulsion system.
Before extinction of an electric fire we need:
To put out the fire without taking any special measures.
To know the voltage and wear rubber gloves.
To disconnect the power source.
To confine the area involved in the fire.
One of the categories of information that must be included in your SSP is:
Weaknesses in security measures.
One of the risks of using CO2 is the low temperatures that it reaches when it vaporises; this temperature is approximately:
In which ways is heat transmitted?
Conduction, convection and radiation.
Delay, conduction, radiation.
Radiation and gasification.
Gasification, conduction and convection.
Under way to go discharging port temperature tests indicate fire in a hold loaded with coal. What is the first action to be taken?
Call for assistance from other ships or rescue vessels.
Close all air ventilators and other openings to the hold in question.
Fill the hold with water.
Open the hatches and cover the top of the cargo by foam.
Assign men to search men and women to search women unless a device such as a metal detector is used:
Which of the following is a combustion reaction?
All the answers are good.
The weak link of a float-free arrangement for liferafts must break under a strain of:
In which one of the following an oil, the flash point of which only needs to be over 43 °C, may be used?
When a fire breaks out in the engine room, who is in charge of the fire-fighting operations?
The first person to arrive at the scene.
Poster or signs shall be provided on or in the vicinity of survival craft and their launching controls. Which one of the following requirements has to be included?
Give relevant instructions and warnings.
Give information on survival craft speed and seaworthiness.
Give information on survival craft capacity.
Give an overview of location of all lifesaving appliances.
What will you bring in a lifeboat if the ship is abandoned?
As much biscuit and canned food as possible.
All pets that will most likely not be able to enter the boat by themselves.
All valuables like money, jewelry etc.
Warm clothes, blankets and lifevests.
Where in accommodation spaces shall smoke detectors be located? (SOLAS II-2/13.2.2).
In all crew and passenger cabins.
In messrooms, public lounges and other public rooms.
In stairways, corridors and escape routes.
Near ventilation ducts throughout the accommodation spaces.
What is a Continuous Synopsis Record?
A record of all security incidents.
A plan including all security measures onboard.
A plan for continuous maintenance of security equipment.
A record of the vessels history.
Which one of the listed fire-extinguishing medium is most effective against an open oil fire?
Which of these are indications that a parcel is suspicious?
The parcel smells like chocolate.
The parcel is wrapped in clean, brown paper and is addressed to a crewmember from his wife.
The parcel is addressed to no one in particular, arrives unexpectedly and seems heavy for its size.
The parcel came from Joe in the safety department and arrived quicker than expected.
Which of the following items shall be included in an “abandon ship”-drill?
Checking the lifeboat provisions and supplies.
Checking the distress signal rockets and other distress signals.
Checking that all crew and passenger moral is high.
Checking that passengers and crew are suitably dressed and lifejackets correctly donned.
When reasonable and practicable, how often shall rescue boats be launched with their assigned crew aboard and manoeuvred in the water?
Who is responsible for issuing an ISPS certificate?
On-board training in the use of davit-launched liferafts (including inflation and lowering whenever practicable) must take place:
When mustered to an abandon ship drill, what is the first thing you do when entering the muster station?
Wait for the order to put on your life jacket.
In general, what is the best extinguishing agent to put out a class A fire?
What is the meaning of this symbol?
How many hand held distress flares are carried in each liferaft with SOLAS B pack?
Which of following items shall be included in an abandon ship drill?
Checking the distress signal rockets and other distress signals.
Checking the lifeboat provisions and supplies.
Instruction in the use of radio life-saving appliances.
Checking passenger’s immersion suits.
Which Security Levels requires the highest security alert?
You can reduce the need for security guards in certain areas by installing:
A person wearing a thermal protective aid shall be able:
To climb up and down a vertical ladder.
To swim a short distance through the water and board a survival craft.
To wear a lifejacket inside.
To jump into the water from a height of 4,5 m.
Which one of the listed requirements regarding lifeboat equipment correspond to present regulations? The normal equipment of every lifeboat shall include:
Helicopter rescue equipment.
Sea charts and navigation equipment.
The DoS addresses the responsibility for the security of the water around the ship and the verification of increased threat levels:
What is the purpose of the Ship Security Plan?
Outline specific measures for your ship to move from security level 1 to 2 and from 2 to 3.
Protect your ship from risks posed by security threats or incidents.
Outline the organizational structure for the ship.
Detail the duties of shipboard personnel assigned security responsibilities.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
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?
In case of accidents, it is important that a wide range of personnel must be permitted and trained to operate the pump.
Only senior deck officers should operate the emergency pump.
To ensure safe operation of the emergency pump, only dedicated personnel must be permitted to operate the pump.
Only senior engineers should operate the emergency pump.