What is the main advantage of plate heat exchangers?
More efficient and take up less space.
Requires less maintenance.
If mouth-to-mouth (M-T-M) ventilation by itself is unsuccessful and the casualty’s heart stops or has stopped beating, you must perform external chest compression (ECC) in conjunction with M-T-M. What is the complete rate when performing ECC?
Complete 25 compressions at the rate of 75 compressions per minute.
Complete 10 compressions at the rate of 40 compressions per minute.
Complete 15 compressions at the rate of 80 compressions per minute.
Complete 20 compressions at the rate of 60 compressions per minute.
Where can you find out if you belong to the forward mooring gang or the aft mooring gang?
Posted on the notice board onboard.
Alarm instruction onboard.
Being distributed for each port.
Deck crew forward and engine crew aft.
Water hammer is a short lasting pressure peak traveling along the pipe. How can it be avoided in a cooling water system?
Operate valves gradually.
Start pump with closed valves.
Start the system with open valves and empty pipes.
What activity will have the greatest fire fighting effect in case of a fire?
All fire fighting teams are organized as soon as possible.
Extinguishing attempt is started immediately.
All possible fire fighting equipment is brought to the scene.
What formula do you use to determine the GM from an inclining experiment?
GM = KM by d by 1/2 length of plumbline divided by W by length of plumbline.
There is no formula. You simply measure the deflection of the plumbline with a tape measure.
GM = w by distance by length of plumbline divided by W by deflection of the plumbline.
GM = w by length of plumbline divided by W by deflection of the plumbline.
What is a “Rescue Unit” (RU)?
A unit ready for search and rescue operations at sea any time of the day.
A unit specializing in search and rescue operations at sea.
A unit composed of trained personnel suitability equipped for expeditious search and rescue.
A permanently manned rescue vessel.
On a steamship at sea, electricity is supplied by:
What are “cross curves” of stability used for onboard a ship?
Giving the capacity of various holds or tanks.
Similar to a set of Bonjean curves.
Obtaining statical stability curves at known displacements.
Showing tank calibration values.
What is the “wave period”?
It is the time in minutes between successive wave crests, passing a fixed point.
It is the time in seconds between successive wave crests or troughs, passing a fixed point.
It is the time interval between the highest waves in a sequence of waves.
It is the comparison of the height of successive waves.
The watertight integrity of a vessel must be intact, when:
Can be relaxed in inshore waters.
Can be relaxed during spells of fine weather.
What part in this diagram is the low pressure turbine?
The condenser in a steam plant is where:
Steam is turned back into water.
Water is turned into steam.
Low pressure steam is produced.
The ship’s training manual must contain instructions and information on the life-saving appliances carried onboard. Which of these duties must be included?
Correct donning of life jackets.
Correct use of oars and sails for survival craft.
Correct donning of protective clothing.
Correct use of communication equipment.
The ship’s training manual must contain instructions and information on the life-saving appliances carried onboard. Which of these duties must also be included?
Correct method of release of survival craft from launching appliances.
Correct method for use of the on-board communication system.
Correct donning of fire protective clothing.
Correct use of oars in survival craft.
What are “hydrostatic curves” used for in ship calculations?
For hydrostatic pressures on bulkheads.
Obtaining the shape of the body sections.
For pressure at various depths in oil fuel bunkers.
Mainly for trim calculations for predicting end draughts.
What is the critical time in a dry docking operation?
After the ship has taken to the blocks, and shores are being put in place.
When they start to empty the dry dock.
Just before the ship takes the blocks at the stern.
As the ship enters the dock gates, to ensure she is not moving too fast.
What is the reason for too rising cooling water temperature at outlet of individual cylinders?
Compression pressure too low.
Cooling water spaces insufficiently vented.
Fuel pressure of fuel booster pump too high.
Which of the following is a rotary compressor?
Diesel engine charge air compressor.
Emergency air compressor.
What is the result of a high metacentric height?
The vessel will roll violently.
The vessel will roll slowly or be unstable.
The vessel’s tween deck height is too high.
The vessel will have a great bending moment.
What is item No. 9 shown in the diagram, fitted between evaporator and condenser of the fresh water generator?
How can you minimize the squat effect?
Maintain your course and speed.
Increase speed if the ship is not already on full ahead.
Do a zig-zag manoeuvre to reduce speed.
Decrease the speed as much as practicable.
What is the purpose of the corrugations on a plate heat exchanger?
To increase the surface area.
To increase turbulence in the liquid.
Stiffening on the thin metal sheet.
Which one of the listed fire extinguishing medium is most effective against an open oil fire?
What is the minimum allowable value for GZ?
What is part No. 3?
Turbine drive gear train.
Turbine electromagnetic clutch.
High pressure steam turbines are:
Directly coupled to the propeller shaft.
Larger than low pressure turbines.
Smaller than low pressure turbines.
Does liquid turbulence improve the efficiency of a plate heat exchanger?
Turbulence is not possible in a plate heat exchanger.
You are about to pass another ship in a close situation. What can happen in this situation?
The two ships will be pushed toward the banks.
Your ship will not be affected in this situation.
The bow of your ship will be sucked towards the stern of the other ship.
Due to suction, the two ships will be sucked together.
If you have to carry out hot work close to a smoke detector in the engine room, what precautions should be taken?
Notify Deck officer in charge that a fire alarm may occur.
Notify master, deck officer and engineers in charge. The loop for this special senseor to be switched off and take normal precautions for hot work.
No special precautions except for having a watchman and a fire extinguisher available.
Disconnect the smoke detector.
If the fresh water generator is producing water with salinity of 5 ppm and is changed to produce water of 2 ppm, this is mainly achieved by:
Throttling sea water feed supply to the evaporator.
Decreasing sea water cooling to the condenser.
Slowing down production by opening the vacuum breaker valve.
Decreasing production by lowering fresh water supply from main engine.
The passage of electrical current through the body may result in severe and sometimes fatal injuries. You are witness to a man getting electric current through his body and is stuck to the dangerous area. It is impossible to switch off the current by any main switch. How can you break the current safely?
Apply oil on your hands and cut the cords by the uyse of any metallic pliers.
Call the electrician immediately.
Stand on dry insulating material and pull the person away with insulating material.
Just take the casualty in your arms and pull the person away.
Your vessel is to turn in a narrow canal by use of one tug (turn to port with the bow). In which position and how would you use the tug? Vessels engine will be used as well.
Make the tug fast aft for pulling.
Make the tug fast on starboard shoulder to push.
Make the tug fast in centre now fairlead for pulling.
Make the tug fast on port shoulder to pull.
How many hand flares should each lifeboat normally carry?
Boiler feed water is water:
Used to cool steam back into water.
Taken from the condenser and fed back to the boiler.
Used to cool steam turbines.
Mixed with fuel oil and burnt as waste oil.
You are to release the towing wire with forerunner. You have 3 men with you to do the work. How do you do it in a safe way?
With manpower. Two men picking up slack and one man lifts off the eye and let go simultaneously.
Use the winch. Forerunner and wire stopper to pick up the slack and stop the wire. One man operating each. Make the forerunner fast on the bit, releasing the eye of wire and the stopper, lower the wire easy by forerunner.
After heaving on the wire by a forerunner, cut the forerunner and so let the wire free.
Unconscious casualties who are breathing and whose hearts are beating should be placed in the recovery position. Why is this position so important?
The recovery position makes it easy to maintain any kind of bleeding.
The position ensures that an open airway is maintained.
Because it keeps the heart beating.
The position prevents the patient from falling asleep.
How is shallow water effect felt in a vessel?
The vessel has a tendency to turn to port (right turning propeller).
The vessel has a tendency to turn to starboard (left turning propeller).
The vessel becomes sluggish in responding to the rudder.
The vessel responds very quickly to the rudder.
An alarm signal consisting of seven short blasts followed by one prolonged blast is sounded by the ship’s whistle and alarm bells. What are you to do?
Go to (or remain in) your cabin and await further orders.
Report on the bridge (Deck crew) or engine room (Engine crew) for further orders.
Go to your lifeboat station.
What can be used to reduce the effect of the state of sea-waves?
What is the general emergency alarm signal to be sounded by the ship’s whistle and alarm bells in case of an emergency situation?
Seven short blasts followed by one prolonged blast.
What liquid is present in the collecting point at the bottom of the evaporator?
What is hypothermia and how is it cured?
Body temperature below 23 °C/Heat the body.
Heavy coughing/medication.
Body temperature below 39 °C/Heat the body.
Body temperature below 35 °C/Heat the body.
Self-igniting lights on lifebuoys must either burn continuously or flash at a specified rate for a period of at least:
What is the purpose of the sea water pump item No 13?
To drive the air ejector of the evaporator.
To supply sea water to the condenser.
To supply water to be evaporated.
In a two stage compressor, you will find pistons with different diameters (one is bigger than the other). Which one of the following statement is correct?
A big piston will deliver dryer air into stage one.
The biggest diameter piston is the stage two piston.
The smallest diameter piston is the stage two piston.
A big piston will give less oil content in the air.
Name the two (2) different lubrication oil circuits of a steam turbine:
The thrust bearing and shaft circuit/the front and governor circuit.
The reduction gear oil/the turbine shaft bearing oil.
The bearing and gear oil circuit/the governor oil circuit.
The front bearing circuit/the rear bearing circuit.
Which of the following is true when comparing plate type with shell and tube type heat exchangers?
Physically smaller for the same capacity.
The capacity can easily be changed.
Better sealing between liquids in shell and tube.
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 of the following statements regarding steam turbines is NOT true?
From the HP turbine, the steam then goes to the condenser.
The HP turbine is a faster rotating machine than a diesel engine.
The HP turbine is smaller than the LP turbine.
The HP turbine receives the steam before the LP turbine.
Who is the leader of the lifeboat drill (abandon ship drill)?
The first member of the crew arriving at the survival craft.
The appointed lifeboat commander.
The muster list shall show the duties assigned to the different members of the crew. Which of the given duties do not necessarily have to be included in the muster list?
Preparation and launching of survival crafts.
Manning of fire parties assigned to deal with fires.
What is a “Rescue Sub-Centre” (RSC)?
A national search and rescue centre subordinate to an international search and rescue co-ordinating centre.
A unit subordinate to a rescue co-ordinating centre.
A centre for underwater search and rescue operation.
A centre established to assist the main national rescue centre.
What effects does freeboard have on a vessel’s dynamical stability?
As freeboard increases, the range of stability also increases, and this in turn leads to a greater dynamical stability.
If freeboard is greater, then dynamical stability is correspondingly reduced.
It does not have any effect on dynamical stability.
Freeboard and dynamical stability are not related in any way.
You are underway on a power driven vessel in open water, when you see another power driven vessel approximately five miles straight ahead on an opposite course. What action do you take?
Try and call him on the VHF to decide on what action to take.
Make a bold alternation to starboard and pass on his port side.
Make a bold alteration to port and pass on his starboard side.
Stand on with caution as he will alter course.
What is the source of energy used to convert salt water into fresh water in the fresh water generator?
The vacuum and ejector pump.
The ejector pump and sea water pump combined.
The sea water pump supplying the evaporating water.
The waste heat from the main engine.
A receiver in a refrigeration system is used to:
Separate oil from the refrigerant.
Condense the refrigerant.
How will the ship behave if you have a black out in the situation sketched below?
The wind will not affect your ship whatsoever.
She will continue on course and the speed will slowly drop.
She will turn to starboard and the speed will slowly drop.
She will turn to port and the speed will drop gradually.
Turbo alternators perform which of the following tasks?
Supplying electricity on a motorship.
Supplying electricity on steamships when the main boiler is shut down.
Supplying electricity on steamships when the main boiler is operating.
Supplying electricity from diesel engines.
A burn may occur when electricity of high current and voltage passes through the body. Most damage occurs at the points of entry and exit of electricity. What is the treatment for electrical burns?
Apply lotion and ointment to injured area and secure with a bandage.
Remove loose skin and apply oinment. Don’t secure with bandage.
Break blisters and secure with bandages.
Place sterile dressing over the burn and secure with a bandage.
When cross-flooding arrangements to correct unsymmetrical flooding and excessive heel angles in damaged condition are installed in passenger ship’s, what is the maximum time allowed for equalization?
The Disc type oil separator can usually separate water from oil when processing oils between which density ranges?
What is the effect on draft caused by a vessel heeling or listing?
There is no change in draft regardless of the extent of the list.
The draft is reduced by the amount the high side rises above the upright position.
The draft is increased by the difference between the high side draft and the low side draft.
The draft is increased by the difference in the heeled draft measured by a straight line in tangent with the keel, and the draft before heeling.
The two main types of refrigeration system evaporators are called?
What shall you do if you see a person falling into the sea?
Throw a lifebuoy overboard and report to the bridge immediately.
Superheated steam is steam:
That is mixed with water vapour.
That can be used for heating the accommodation.
That has been heated until it is “dry”.
In a distress situation, how many times or for how long should the emergency alarm signal be sounded?
Until all crew members and passengers have reported to their respect muster stations.
Until the signal “risk is over” or the order abandon ship is given.
What is the BM for a box-shaped vessel in terms of breadth and draught?
Breadth cubed / 12 × draught.
Breadth squared / 12 × draught.
Anyone of the crew who is assigned to watch duties in ports has a number of important tasks to carry out. Which one of the listed tasks has to be included in the watchman’s duties?
Checking the trim of the vessel.
Checking the number of persons entering/leaving the vessel.
Checking the moorings for tightness/slack.
Checking the safe and secure handling of cargo.
In a modern steam turbine steam is prevented from leaking along the shaft by:
High temperature packing.
What kind of safety protection is to be weared during a mooring operation?
Safety shoes and boiler suit.
No particular protection necessary.
Helmet, safety shoes, gloves and protecting cloths.
Which of these requirements regarding lifebuoys corresponds to the SOLAS regulations?
It must have a mass greater than 2,5 kgs.
If fitted with light or smoke signal, it must have a mass less than 4 kgs.
It must have sufficient air.
It must be constructed of inherently buoyant material.
The vessel will anchor with pilot onboard. You are the duty officer on the bridge. What is your main duty?
No duty when pilot is onboard.
Follow the master’s order.
What is the purpose of hunting hear when referring to a hydraulic steering system?
Limits the speed of the rudder movement.
Provides feedback to the pump control.
To control hydraulic motor swash plate movement.
To transmit hydraulic pressure.
How is temperature controlled in a steam oil heater?
Steam inlet valve throttled.
Steam outlet valve throttled.
Steam supply pressure reduced.
Which part in this diagram is the high pressure turbine?
You are berthed with a steady offshore beam wind of 30 knots. This wind suddenly increases to 60 knots. When this happens, the force driving the vessel off-berth will be:
Modern high pressure boilers produce which of the following?
Fresh water for drinking.
A water content greater than 2 % is detected in a lubricating oil system. What is the best action to do?
Segregate the oil in a separate tank for continuous purifying.
Boil out the water by increasing the temperature.
Continuous purifying the system with the oil pumps running.
It is no danger, until the water level reach 6-8 %.
What kind of steam is feeding the astern turbine fitted on the same rotor as the LP turbine?
Reduced superheated steam via a pressure reducer.
Regenerated steam via resuperheater.
Steam from the main steam manifold via manoeuvring stand.
Exhaust steam from the high pressure turbine.