If circumstances permit, how should low expansion foam be applied to oil burning near a bulkhead of the engine room?
The foam should be aimed at the bulkhead behind the fire and allowed to spread out slowly over the fire.
The foam should be aimed at about 45° upwards so that it can drop onto the fire.
The applicator should be used in a sweeping motion to spread the foam over the surface.
The foam should be applied to the centre of the fire.
When the fire alarm signal is sounded every member of the ship’s crew shall immediately proceed to their assigned fire station. Which one of the following signals is used as fire alarm signal on board cargo ships?
Intermittent signals on the ship’s alarm bells.
Three short blasts followed by three long blasts, then followed by three short blasts on the ship’s whistle and alarm bells.
One long blast on the ship’s whistle and alarm bells followed by seven short blasts.
Seven short blasts followed by one long blast on the ship’s whistle and alarm bells.
When fighting fire, why shall you never pour water into hot fat?
The water will explode into steam causing hot fat to be thrown far away thus possibly causing severe burns of fire.
The water will turn into steam and cause the fat to explode.
The fat will not be edible any more.
The fat will stiffen immediately and need reheating.
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:
Not allow the clothes to be hung anywhere in the unmanned machinery spaces.
Allow the clothes to be hung over rail next to the warm FO service tanks.
Allow the clothes to be hung over a rail provided there is no electrical equipment directly below.
Allow the clothes to be hung over a rail anywhere.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
International shore connection.
Remote controlled fire pumps.
In addition to personal equipment a complete set of fireman’s outfit also comprises a breathing apparatus and a fireproof lifeline. How many complete sets of fireman’s outfit is to be carried by all ships?
Two sets or more depending on the type and the size of the vessel.
At least one set or more depending on the type and the size of the vessel.
At least three sets or more depending on the type and the size of the vessel.
At least four sets or more depending on the type and the size of the vessel.
Monoammonium phosphate used as a dry powder can be effective on which of the following type of fire?
Solid, liquids, and gases.
Solid, liquid, gases and metals.
In case of a fire inside the Acetylene-line in the ac/ox gas welding equipment, what action is deemed necessary?
Close the valves on both the Acetylene and the Oxygen bottles.
Close valves on Acetylene bottle(s).
Close Acetylene valve in the workshop.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Davit launched rescue boat.
Where do you find minimum drill requirements?
In the SOLAS convention and its annex.
In classification society rules.
In manager’s instructions.
The correct order of actions to be taken in a fire emergency, should be:
Evaluation of the situation, rescue and life-saving, confinement of fire, extinction, then feed back on the emergency.
Evaluation of the situation, confinement of fire, rescue and life-saving, extinction.
Extinction, confinement of fire, feed back on the emergency, rescue and life-saving, then evaluation of the situation.
Extinction, evaluation of the situation, confinement of fire, rescue and life-saving.
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?
In which way shall a survivor be hauled out of the sea?
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Muster station to liferaft.
How many buoyant smoke signals are carried in each lifeboat?
Which of the following prevention actions offers the guarantee of an efficient intervention in an emergency?
The installation of protective measures.
Planning of the emergency.
How would you know how many people a lifeboat is supposed to hold?
The number of persons should be clearly stated on the outside of the boats bow.
Fill the boat up until no more space is left.
No fixed number as it depends on the people’s size.
Ask one of the deck officers.
What is the working principle of the detectors of a common fixed sprinkler fire-extinguish system?
They are fixed-temperature detectors.
They are flame detectors.
They are rate-of-rise detectors.
They are smoke detectors.
As per SOLAS regulations, the general emergency alarm system must be tested:
An immersion suit is:
Not allowing undue ingress of water after a jump from a height of not less than 4,5 m into the water.
Totally waterproof whatever may be the condition of immersion.
Not allowing undue ingress of water after a jump from a height of not less than 18 m into the water.
Not allowing undue ingress of water after a jump from a height of not less than 8,5 m into the water.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Portable fire extinguisher.
Wheeled fire extinguisher.
Which of the following detailed explanations should be mentioned in the Training Manual?
How to recover survival craft and rescue boats including stowage and securing.
How to use escape routes and other escape methods.
How to use navigational equipment for survival crafts.
How to use surface to air visual signals to be used by survivors.
Besides certain other factors, a BOILOVER takes place:
When the container also contains water.
When the product is a combustible liquid.
If the tank has a floating roof.
When the container is nearly full.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Locker with protective clothing.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Rescue boat with waterproof canopy.
What class of fire is a smouldering fire of wood, paper and other carbonaceous materials?
An evacuation-slide must be capable:
Of being deployed by one person.
Of being deployed by one person or remotely controlled from the bridge.
Of being deployed by two person or remotely controlled from the bridge.
Of being deployed by two persons.
Who is responsible for ensuring that your ship’s security plan meets the requirements of the ISPS Code?
Company Security Officer.
Recognized Security Organization.
Flag State Administration.
When reasonable and practicable, how often shall rescue boats be launched with their assigned crew aboard and manoeuvred in the water?
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 term used to identify the division that stops the flames until the end of the first half hour in a standard test of fire exposition, taking into account that the average temperature of the non-exposed face doesn’t rise more than 139 °C above the initial temperature, and also that the temperature at any place does not rise more than 140 °C above the initial temperature in the interval of 15 minutes?
Which part of the fresh water quantity provided for each person the liferaft is permitted to accommodate may be replaced by a de-salting apparatus?
0,5 l if the de-salting apparatus is capable of producing this quantity in 2 day.
0,5 l if the de-salting apparatus is capable of producing this quantity in 1 day.
0,25 l if the de-salting apparatus is capable of producing this quantity in 2 day.
0,25 l if the de-salting apparatus is capable of producing this quantity in 1 day.
If a fire starts in the fuel tanks of a vessel, the fire will be:
How often must the Emergency Steering Gear be tested, and how is this information recorded in the OLB?
Every 3 months. Details of test with signatures of Master and witness.
Fortnightly, with signature of Chief Engineer and witness.
Monthly with signature of person carrying out test.
Monthly, with signature of Chief Engineer and witness.
How many hand held distress flares are carried in each liferaft with SOLAS B pack?
What is the meaning of this symbol?
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
B-class fire door self closing.
A-class fire door self closing.
D-class fire door self closing.
C-class fire door self closing.
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.
Organise a lookout system.
Join up with any other survival craft and stream the sea anchor.
Start paddling in the direction of the nearest land.
The breaking strength of the painter in a liferaft permitted to accommodate 6 persons is at least:
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 fire protection clothing.
Donning of lifejackets and immersion suits.
The presence of smoke represents one of the greatest dangers in the fire fighting. Why?
It reduces the visibility, provokes panic, is irritating and may be toxic.
It refrains the equipment from setting out the fire, and is irritating.
It hinders communications, causes, burns, and provoke panics.
It only reduces visibility and is very hot.
The fire point is:
The minimum temperature at which a combustible gives off vapours that may burn in contact with oxygen in air, and at which combustion persists once the source of ignition has been removed.
The maximum pressure that will be reached when a given combustible burns into an enclosed space.
The minimum temperature at which a combustible gives off vapours that may burn when they are in contact with oxygen in air, when there is a presence of activation energy; but with no capacity of maintaining combustion.
A process of chemical decomposition by oxidation-reduction at unusually high temperature, in areas with slight ventilation.
The muster list must be prepared:
At any moment before the ship proceeds to sea.
At least 2 hours after the ship has proceeded to sea.
At least 2 hours before the ship proceeds to sea.
At least 1 hour before the ship proceeds to sea.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Lifebuoy with light and smoke.
Lifebuoy with hand flare.
What are the main components of the atmospherical air?
O2: 21 %, N2: 78 %, H2O: traces CO2: traces, Rare gases: traces.
O2: 21 %, N2: 72 %, H2O: 5 %, CO2: 2 %, Rare gases: traces.
O2: 75 %, N2: 10 %, H2O: 5 %, CO2: 5 %, Rare gases: traces.
O2: 50 %, N2: 50 %, H2O: traces, CO2: traces, Rare gases: traces.
What is the absolutely main purpose with fighting a fire on board?
Which of following items shall be included in an abandon ship drill?
During test and/or maintenance work of the CO2 system affecting the release system, precautions to ensure that the gas is not released into the engine room due to a mistake are to be ensured. What precautions should be taken?
The main supply line to be blanked off prior to the work.
Arrange a watchman in the CO2 central.
No special precautions necessary.
Check the main valve for a potential leakage.
The weak link of a float-free arrangement for liferafts must break under a strain of:
The halogenated hydrocarbons (halon), are hydrocarbons in which the molecules have one (or more) atom(s) of hydrogen replaced by another atom (or atoms) of:
Nitrogen and/or fluorine.
The DoS addresses the responsibility for the security of the water around the ship and the verification of increased threat levels:
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.
You are starting to get low on water in the lifeboat. What should you do?
Mix sea water with 50 % fresh water.
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.
A definite standard process.
The weather conditions of the moment.
We must clean the spots of oil on hot surfaces because:
All the answers are correct.
Mention some important thoughts for what you have to do when you recognise that fire break out onboard:
Report to bridge or duty officer, actuate the fire alarm, call the persons around the fire and join the fire squad.
Commence fighting the fire, call the persons around the fire and join the fire squad.
Report to bridge or duty officer, actuate the fire alarm, organise and commence fighting the fire.
Go to the lifeboat start the motor then call the duty officer and commence fight the fire.
What is the only reliable way of checking that the CO2 cartridge in a dry powder extinguisher is full?
Remove the cartridge and weigh it to check that it has the full weight stamped on it.
All of the alternatives are reliable methods.
Check if the seal on the extinguisher release handle is intact.
Weigh the extinguisher and check that it complies with the weight marked on it.
In order to extinguish a flammable liquid of the same kind as alcohol, we can use:
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Which of these statements about drug smuggling is true?
The risks to ships are not restricted to specific areas or trading routes.
Drugs are difficult to conceal onboard a ship.
Drug smuggling is only a problem in certain ports, so only ships sailing in those ports need to implement preventative measures.
What is a contingency plan for ships?
Plan for safety preparedness.
Plan for maintenance and repair.
Loading plan for general cargo.
Who is responsible for the regular security inspections of the ship?
The Ship Security Officer.
The Classification Society.
The Port Facility Security Officer.
The Company Security Officer.
The analyses of the smoke produced by a fire, may give an interpretation of that fire. Which are the factors we should take into account?
Opacity, amount and colour.
There is no possible interpretation of a fire according to the smoke.
The analyses of the smoke produced by a fire, may give an interpretation of that fire. Which are the factors we should take into account?
Opacity, amount and colour.
There is no possible interpretation of a fire according to the smoke.
The grabline of a lifebuoy has a length of:
4 times the outer diameter of the lifebuoy.
2 times the outer diameter of the lifebuoy.
3 times the outer diameter of the lifebuoy.
5 times the outer diameter of the lifebuoy.
What is the general emergency alarm signal as specified in SOLAS?
Seven or more short blasts followed by one long blast.
Three short blasts followed by three long blasts then three short ones.
One long blast followed by seven short blasts or more.
According to their physical state, extinguishing agents may be classified in to:
Solid, proteinic and gases.
Synthetic, proteinic, gases and liquid.
What is the maximum allowed suction head for fire pumps? (SOLAS II-2/4.3.3.2.5).
Which of these are indicators that an individual may be a drug smuggler?
The individual wears bulky or out of season clothing.
The individual spends his or her free time hanging out with others.
The individual makes small local purchases.
The individual is disinterested in the ship’s cargo.
How is the activation of any detector or manually operated call point of fixed fire-detection and fire-alarm systems to be indicated? (SOLAS II-2/13.1.4).
By visual and audible signal at the control panel and indicating units.
By all the indication methods listed.
By alarm signals at the bridge and engine room control panels.
By sounding the ship’s fire alarm signal in crew accommodation and service spaces.
The engine room is equipped with regular fire hoses and nozzles. What is important to observe when using water as an extinguisant in the engine room?
All the mentioned alternatives.
Water has a clear limitation in figting an oil fire.
To reduce the negative effect of water in an engine room, the spraying function to be used. The spray function will also give the personnel operating the fire hose good shelter against heat.
Water may short circuit electrical installation and may be a threat to the personnel operating the firehose as well as to electrical equipment itself.
Which of the following items must be included in each fire drill?
Reporting to stations and preparing for the duties described in the muster list.
Starting a fire pump using at least two required jets of water to show that the system is in proper working order.
Checking fireman’s outfits and other personal rescue equipment.
To maintain a fire, three conditions need to be met: Oxygen, combustible material and sufficient temperature for combustion. What subject must be removed to extinguish the fire?
Either of the mentioned alternatives.
Heat, Oxygen and combustible material.
What is the first thing you are doing when having a lifeboat drill?
When at sea, you discover that the bilges in the engine room have a large quantity of oil residues floating around. What action should you take?
Notify Chief Engineer, find cause of leakage, remedy the leakage and then immediately start to clean the bilges.
Apply foam to the bilges to minimise the risk of fire.
Open the overboard valve and immediately start the bilge pump in order to draw these residues away from the bilges.
Who is responsible for ensuring your ship completes a security assessment?
Company Security Officer.
Flag State Administration.
Recognized Security Organization.
What class of fire involves liquids?
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?
The use of the ship’s line throwing apparatus.
The use of surface to air visual signals to be used by survivors.
The use of escape routes and other escape methods.
The use of navigational equipment for survival crafts.
How often are “abandon ship” drills required to be held on cargo vessels according to SOLAS?