The temperature control system of the main engine crankshaft bearings indicates high temperature. What would be the correct way to open and check the crankcase?
Stop the engine immediately and keep the lube oil pump running for at least 20 minutes before opening the crankcase.
Stop the engine immediately, stop the lube oil pump, and inspect the crankcase after 5 minute.
Stop the engine and open crankcase down immediately for inspection.
Reduce the RPM to a minimum and open the crankcase doors carefully.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
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.
What are the three diameters of fire hoses most commonly found on ships?
Which activity will have the greatest fire-fighting effect in case of a fire?
Extinguishing attempt is started immediately.
All fire-fighting teams are organized as soon as possible.
All possible fire-fighting equipment is brought to the scene.
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 kind of fuel will originate a class A fire?
A solid (cardboard or wood…).
A liquid (gasoline or petrol…).
A gas, not under pressure.
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.
A lifejacket should be provided with:
On ships built after February 1992 all lifejackets should be fitted with a light.
An immersion suit which has its own buoyancy is fitted with:
A light plus a whistle plus a knife.
Which of the following actions will most effectively prevent fire in a cabin?
Ensuring that all persons avoid smoking in bed.
Request people to refrain from smoking.
Install fire detecting devices.
How much food per person is supplied in a lifeboat?
None – only barley sugar sweets supplied.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Portable fire extinguisher.
Wheeled fire extinguisher.
The wearer of a lifejacket can jump into the water without injury and without damaging the jacket from a height of at least:
How many hand held distress flares are carried in each lifeboat?
What maximum suction head can be expected from a fire pump?
Any height, provided the pump has enough power.
How many buoyant smoke signals are carried in each liferaft with SOLAS A pack?
Having a CO2 alarm during normal working hours, what immediate action should be taken?
Get out of the engine room as soon as possible.
Get into the control room.
Which type of equipment can be used to detect explosives?
What type of nozzles for fire hoses can be provided aboard ships?
Dual purpose (jet/spray) type incorporating a shutoff.
Spray type only, incorporating a shutoff.
Jet type only, incorporating a shutoff.
All of the above types can be provided.
The most effective way to combat the threat of drug smuggling is to:
Combining routine, but irregular searches of the ship with spontaneous targeted searches.
Perform routine, but irregular searches using teams of two or more personnel from the same department.
Organize crew into pairs and conduct weekly searches of the ship.
Perform spontaneous targeted searches using teams of two or more personnel from the same department.
As a general rule, what is the minimum flash point of an oil used as a liquid fuel on board?
Which of the following measures should be applied when hot work is to be undertaken in a harbour?
To have a hot-work permit.
To maintain a permanent fire watch of at least four persons.
All the answers are good.
To use only intrinsically safe equipment in the area where hot-work is performed.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
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.
If you detect a fire on board the ship, dependent on the situation, which of the following actions is the first to be taken?
Try to kill the fire immediately by use of fire-extinguishers or other adequate appliances.
Call the officer on duty.
Check all nearby compartments for survivors.
You are on board a cargo ship. The ship is heavily listing to starboard, making impossible the launching of the survival craft stowed on this side. Lifeboats and liferafts are equally distributed on each side of the vessel. What should be the total number of persons that can be accommodated in the remaining survival craft stowed on the port side? (*) N is the total number of persons that vessel is permitted to carry:
At least 200 % N (lifeboat capacity: 100 % N; liferaft capacity: 100 % N) (*).
At least 100 % N (lifeboat capacity: 50 % N; liferaft capacity: 50 % N) (*).
At least 150 % N (lifeboat capacity: 100 % N; liferaft capacity: 50 % N) (*).
At least 150 % N (lifeboat capacity: 50 % N; liferaft capacity: 100 % N) (*).
You are carrying out a search in a smoke filled compartment wearing a breathing apparatus. At what stage should you start to make your way out of the compartment?
Regularly check your pressure gauge and note how much air you used to reach your work area. Start to return when you have this amount left plus a reasonable reserve.
15 minutes after starting to use the set as this leaves you with 5 minutes air left.
Wait until the breathing apparatus warning whistle sounds.
Wait for the appropriate signal on your safety line as the personnel outside will be keeping a track of the time you have spent inside.
May an engine room be only protected by a fixed low expansion foam fire-extinguishing system?
Yes, if the “engine room” is considered as a machinery space of category A.
It depends on the type of vessel.
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.
Which of the following is allowed as a fire-extinguishing medium for fixed gas fire-extinguishing systems aboard ships?
All of the above gas are allowed.
Hand flares and buoyant smoke signals can continue to burn or emit smoke after having been immersed for a period of 10 s.
Right, if the immersion depth is smaller than 100 mm.
Right, if the immersion depth is more than 1 m.
In which one of the following an oil, the flash point of which only needs to be over 43 °C, may be used?
Which one of the following items has to be included in an abandon ship drill according to SOLAS regulations?
Checking that life-jackets are correctly donned.
Starting and operating radio life-saving appliances.
Launching and recovery of a survival craft.
Manoeuvring the lifeboat in the water.
What is the meaning of this symbol?
Survival craft pyrotechnic distress signals.
How many “thermal protective aids” are required to be carried on passenger vessels with open lifeboats?
One for each person on board who is not provided with an immersion suit.
They are not required, providing the boat has a canvas canopy which can be rigged in cold weather.
Each lifeboat should carry the same number of thermal protective aids as the number of persons it is designed to carry.
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.
According to their physical state, extinguishing agents may be classified in to:
Solid, proteinic and gases.
Synthetic, proteinic, gases and liquid.
You are the officer of the watch at the bridge of a cargo ship. In the middle of the night, an alarm sounds on the control panel of the fire detection system. It indicates that a detector is activated in the crew’s accommodation. What is the first action you would take?
Sound the fire alarm signal and send the seaman on watch down to inspect and report the situation.
Acquit the alarm and wait till it sounds again before taking any other action.
Run to the scene as fast as possible and start fighting the fire by all available means.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Start air filling of the davit launched liferaft.
Start ventilation of the lifeboat.
Start ventilation of the rescue boat.
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.
What class of fire involves gas?
How much water per person is provided in a liferaft equipped with a desalting apparatus?
We must clean the spots of oil on hot surfaces because:
All the answers are correct.
When fully loaded, a lifeboat should have a sufficient strength to withstand a drop into the water from a height of:
Not less than 3,0 metres.
Not less than 1,5 metres.
Not less than 0,5 metres.
Not less than one third of the distance from the stowage position of the lifeboat to the waterline in the lightest seagoing condition.
The first step in completing an SSA is to:
Create a list of potential motives for security incidents against your ship.
Identify the key shipboard operations, systems, areas and personnel that are critical to protect.
Develop an onboard security survey checklist.
List the existing security measures.
Where is the International Shore Connection to be stored?
Easy accessible by the gangway.
Together with the cargohoses.
Which of air and water is the fluid that transfers the greatest amount of heat during the same time, given that the fluid is not flowing along the immersed body?
Both are transferring equally.
Air if the temperature of the fluid is 10 °C; water if temperature of the fluid is < 10 °C.
A Ship Security Assessment is integral to the creating of your ship’s security plan:
What is the meaning of this symbol?
The Declaration of Security:
Addresses the security requirements shared between ships or between a port facility and a ship.
Details a ship’s security measures.
States the reporting procedures to government contact points.
Identifies the security responsibilities of shipboard personnel.
Which of the following items shall be included in an “abandon ship”-drill?
Checking that passengers and crew are suitably dressed and lifejackets correctly donned.
Checking the distress signal rockets and other distress signals.
Checking that all crew and passenger moral is high.
Checking the lifeboat provisions and supplies.
As regards the launching and recovery arrangements for rescue boats which is required among the following:
Means shall be available to prevent any discharge of water on to survival craft during abandonment.
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.
Each lifeboat shall be provided with separate appliances which is capable of launching and recovering the lifeboat.
Which of these procedures should crew follow when conducting a bomb search?
Stand quietly in various spots around the space, listening for unusual sounds like the tick tock of a clock mechanism.
Wait in the area they’ve finished searching until they’re contacted for a status update.
Conduct random or spot checks of logical threat areas.
Search the perimeter of the space up to a height of 5 feet.
Is it necessary to be certified to be a lifeboat-commander?
Yes, you must attend to a course held by certified personnel, and provide evidence of having maintained the required standards of competence every 5 years.
Yes, you must attend a one week course at a approved course center.
No, the only thing you need is one hour instruction from a deck officer.
Which one of the following items has to be included in an abandon ship drill according to SOLAS regulations?
Checking that life-jackets are correctly donned.
Manoeuvring the lifeboat in the water.
Starting and operating radio life-saving appliances.
Launching and recovery of a survival craft.
As far as human factor is concerned, which of the following actions should be considered as an efficient one?
To train the fire brigade.
To equip them with better communication systems.
To establish inner rules to perform work of a special risk.
Every inflatable liferaft, inflatable lifejacket and hydrostatic release units shall be serviced:
Generally speaking, what is the value commonly recognised as the maximum concentration of CO allowed in the breathing air of a breathing apparatus?
What is the minimum capacity of the portable tank of a portable foam applicator?
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 Chief Engineer and witness.
Monthly, with signature of person carrying out test.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Davit launched rescue boat.
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 fitted with the manufacturers name and logo.
All prescribed life-saving appliances shall have marking in red colour.
All prescribed life-saving appliances shall be of such a colour that they are in contrast to the surrounding colour.
How is the painter released from the lifeboat, once the boat is waterborne and ready to leave?
Remove the toggle which will release the painter.
Cut it with the axe provided.
Cut it with the knife contained in the equipment locker.
The painter will automatically part by the weak link when the boat goes astern to clear the ship.
How often shall crew members participate in fire drills?
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.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Wheeled fire extinguisher.
Portable fire extinguisher.
On board passenger ships an abandon ship drill must be performed:
How many buoyant smoke signals are carried in each lifeboat?
Sanitary-, ballast-, bilge- or general service pumps may be accepted as fire pumps provided:
They are not normally used for pumping oil.
They are fitted with automatic start connected to the fire alarm.
None of these pumps may be accepted as fire pump.
They have a capacity of at least 20 m3/h.
Which of these conventions is The International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code a part of?
The Anti Terrorist International Agreement.
A person wearing lifejacket or immersion suit, shall be able to turn from a face-down to a face-up position in not more than:
What alarm signal must be sounded by the alarm bells in case of fire?
The signal which is stated in the muster list.
One long blast followed by seven short blasts.
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.
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.
What is the minimum number of portable fire extinguishers that must be carried on ships of 1 000 GRT and above?
For how long and at what speed is a fully loaded lifeboat designed to operate in calm weather?
Apart from red, what other colour is frequently used for a dry powder extinguisher?
Proteinic foams have the feature of being?
Of low expansion, viscous and solid, easily contaminated by hydrocarbons.
Of high expansion, made of tense-active compounds.
Of low expansion, not easily contaminated by hydrocarbons.
Of high expansion, not easily contaminated by hydrocarbons.
In case of a fire in engine rooms, cargo holds or other confined spaces, what has to be done before the central gas extinguishing system is used?
Make sure that the compartment has been evacuated.
Disconnect all non-emergency circuits from the main switchboard.
If any, open all bottom ventilation inlets and outlets to the compartment.