Which statement about IED’s is true?
IED’s don’t cause serious damage.
IED’s are difficult to manufacture.
All IED’s have four common components.
Having a CO2 alarm during normal working hours, what immediate action should be taken?
Get into the control room.
Get out of the engine room as soon as possible.
Which activity will have the greatest fire-fighting effect in case of a fire?
All fire-fighting teams are organized as soon as possible.
All possible fire-fighting equipment is brought to the scene.
Extinguishing attempt is started immediately.
Assign men to search men and women to search women unless a device such as a metal detector is used:
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
D-class fire door self closing.
A-class fire door self closing.
C-class fire door self closing.
B-class fire door self closing.
In general, what is the best extinguishing agent to put out a class A fire?
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 navigational equipment for survival crafts.
The use of the ship’s line throwing apparatus.
The use of escape routes and other escape methods.
The use of surface to air visual signals to be used by survivors.
Which of the following requirements regarding life-buoys correspond to present regulations? (SOLAS III/7.1).
At least one lifebuoy with self-activating smoke shall be placed within the vicinity of the stern.
Not less than half the total number of lifebuoys shall be provided with self-igniting lights.
All the life-buoys shall be placed in holders with quick-release arrangement.
At least four life-buoys on each side of the ship shall be fitted with buoyant lifelines.
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:
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 establish inner rules to perform work of a special risk.
To equip them with better communication systems.
The best way to identify an IED is to:
Recognize its components.
Measure the size of the object.
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.
How often shall each member of the crew participate in an “abandon ship”-drill?
Which of the following may cause a fire in the accommodation spaces?
All the mentioned alternatives.
Covering electric heaters with blankets.
Overloading electric plugs.
Which type of profiling is used to obtain information about rival companies and their employees?
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.
A lifejacket should be provided with:
On ships built after February 1992 all lifejackets should be fitted with a light.
Eavesdropping and phone taps are examples of which threat to information security?
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.
How often must the Emergency Steering Gear be tested, and how is this information recorded in the OLB?
Monthly with signature of person carrying out test.
Monthly, with signature of Chief Engineer and witness.
Every 3 months. Details of test with signatures of Master and witness.
Fortnightly, with signature of Chief Engineer and witness.
What kind of fuel will originate a class A fire?
A solid (cardboard or wood…).
A gas, not under pressure.
A liquid (gasoline or petrol…).
The pyrotechnic used to transmit visual signals to other vessels, boats or aircrafts are of the following type:
All of the below mentioned.
What is the minimum number of immersion suits that are required to be provided for each open lifeboat under SOLAS rules?
Which one of the given requirements regarding survival craft muster and embarkation arrangements corresponds to the present SOLAS regulations?
Davit-launched survival craft muster and embarkation stations shall be arranged to enable stretchers to be placed in survival craft.
Searchlights to be provided at the launching station.
Muster and embarkation stations shall be readily accessible from accommodation and work areas.
Muster and embarkation stations are to be arranged separately to improve working conditions.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Combustible, oxygen, heat and chain reaction.
Combustible, oxygen, flames and chain reaction.
Combustible, air, flames and gas.
A lifejacket must not sustain burning or continue melting after being totally enveloped in a fire for a period of:
Which of these are indicators that an individual may be a drug smuggler?
The individual makes small local purchases.
The individual is disinterested in the ship’s cargo.
The individual wears bulky or out of season clothing.
The individual spends his or her free time hanging out with others.
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.
In general what is the proportion of concentrate to water to produce foam?
This operation is done automatically and in relation to the foam.
If conditions permit, which is the best way to board a liferaft which is floating close to the ship?
Wearing a lifejacket, jump into the water close to the raft and then swim to it.
Jump onto the raft itself.
Use a rope ladder close to the raft to climb down and board.
Jump into the water close to the raft, without a lifejacket, as this will make it easier to swim and board the liferaft.
An alarm signal consisting of seven short blast 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.
Go to your lifeboat station.
Report on the bridge (deck crew) or engine room (engine crew) for further orders.
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?
Water has a clear limitation in figting an oil fire.
Water may short circuit electrical installation and may be a threat to the personnel operating the firehose as well as to electrical equipment itself.
All the mentioned alternatives.
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.
Which Security Levels requires the highest security alert?
On-board training in the use of davit-launched liferafts (including inflation and lowering whenever practicable) must take place:
Your ship security plan must include procedures for responding to security threats, auditing security activities and interfacing with the port facility:
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.
We must clean the spots of oil on hot surfaces because:
All the answers are correct.
You are leading a team fighting an interior fire. If you see the colour of the smoke changing from dark black to grey, what is the most probable reason for that change?
The temperature inside is increasing.
The team has started to ventilate.
The team is applying water and the temperature is decreasing.
The percentage of oxygen is getting below 15 %.
In case of a fire inside the Acetylene-line in the ac/ox gas welding equipment, what action is deemed necessary?
Close valves on Acetylene bottle(s).
Close Acetylene valve in the workshop.
Close the valves on both the Acetylene and the Oxygen bottles.
When passenger ships are engaged on international voyages (except for short ones) musters of the passengers must be performed within:
1 week after their embarkation.
Immediately after their embarkation.
48 hours after their embarkation.
24 hours after their embarkation.
As a general rule, what is the minimum flash point of an oil used as a liquid fuel on board?
What is the signal actuated by a fire detection system?
An audible and visual signal consisting in 7 short signals followed by a long one.
A visual signal at the control panel.
An audible signal at the control panel.
A visual and audible alarm signal at the control panel.
Which among the following list is required for lifeboat equipment according to present regulations?
Be made of fire retardant material.
Be secured in a manner as not to intefere with abandonment procedures.
Be made of buoyant material or stored in buoyant containers.
Be made of fire-retardant material and stored in buoyant containers.
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 analyses of the smoke produced by a fire, may give an interpretation of that fire. Which are the factors we should take into account?
There is no possible interpretation of a fire according to the smoke.
Opacity, amount and colour.
Generally speaking, what is the value commonly recognised as the maximum concentration of oil vapours allowed in the breathing air of a breathing apparatus?
Give the meaning of this symbol:
Lifebuoy with light and smoke.
Lifebuoy with line and smoke.
What vessels must have automatic fire detection onboard with heat/smoke detectors and audible alarm?
All ships that are covered by the IMO safety conventions.
All ships that are built after 1986.
It is the owners option to have fire detection onboard.
All ships that are built on or after 1986 in accordance with local rules and regulations.
The method of extinction by smothering is based on this basis:
The fire is extinguished by eliminating the heat so as to obtain a temperature at which the fuel doesn’t give off enough vapour.
The fire is extinguished by avoiding the contact between the fuel vapours and the hot surface.
The fire is extinguished by interrupting the chain reaction, as it stops the transmission of heat by means of the action of chemical agents.
The fire extinguished by avoiding the contact between the fuel vapours and the oxygen.
The aim of fire detection is:
All the answers are correct.
To begin applying an emergency plan.
To discover where a fire starts.
A lifebuoy light is capable of working at minimum for a period of, and has a luminous intensity of:
2 h, 1 candela (about 1,0 mile range at normal meteorological sight).
2 h, 2 candela (about 1,7 mile range at normal meteorological sight).
4 h, 2 candela (about 1,7 mile range at normal meteorological sight).
4 h, 2 candela (about 1,0 mile range at normal meteorological sight).
What is the minimum number of “international shore connections” that should be provided on vessels of 500 gross tonnage and upwards?
0. Such connections only have to be provided on vessels over 1 000 gross tonnage.
When should a crew member joining a ship for the first time be given some training and instructions in the use of the ship’s fire-fighting appliances?
As soon as possible but not later than 2 weeks after he joins the ship.
As soon as possible but not later than 2 days after he joins the ship.
As soon as possible but not later than 24 hours after he joins the ship.
Which one of the listed requirements regarding abandon ship drills corresponds to present SOLAS regulation?
Drills shall be conducted when the ship is in a harbour.
Each lifeboat shall be launched, and manoeuvred in the water with its assigned crew at least once every 3 months during an abandon ship drill.
On ships on short international voyages, each lifeboat shall be launched and manoeuvred in the water at least every 6 months.
All lifeboats shall be lowered during drills.
For how long should the self contained air support system on a totally enclosed lifeboat having its engine running be capable of providing safe and breathable air?
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.
How many hand held distress flares are carried in each lifeboat?
Which of these series of sizes corresponds to the international standard for nozzles?
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.
An evacuation-slide must be capable:
Of being deployed by two person or remotely controlled from the bridge.
Of being deployed by two persons.
Of being deployed by one person.
Of being deployed by one person or remotely controlled from the bridge.
Where on board would you find out which fire sections are enclosed by “A” or “B” bulkheads and decks?
On the general arrangement plan.
All the mentioned alternatives.
On the fire control plans.
What is the minimum number of lifebuoys carried by a cargo vessel of more than 200 metres in length?
This device can detect a package of drugs inside a large delivery of ship’s stores. What is it?
When reasonable and practicable, how often shall rescue boats be launched with their assigned crew aboard and manoeuvred in the water?
Part way through a profiling interview with a supplier, the package the individual is carrying arouses your suspicion. What do you do?
Confront the individual and demand that he open the package.
Discreetly inform someone of your suspicious so he or she can get assistance.
Take the package and open it.
Call for help on the radio.
What is the minimum number of fire control plans that should be permanently stored in a prominently marked weathertight enclosure outside the deckhouse for the assistance of shore side fire-fighting personnel?
Not required providing one set is available inside the accommodation spaces.
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 all the indication methods listed.
By alarm signals at the bridge and engine room control panels.
By visual and audible signal at the control panel and indicating units.
By sounding the ship’s fire alarm signal in crew accommodation and service spaces.
HEL-H is the abbreviation of a heavy helicopter radius of action for rescue purposes. What do you think the radius and evacuating capacity of the helicopter is?
150 nm and capacity for evacuating more than 12 persons.
500 nm and capacity for evacuating more than 25 persons.
100 nm and capacity for evacuating more than 10 persons.
200 nm and capacity for evacuating more than 15 persons.
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.
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Muster station to liferaft.
On board a ship, how many lifebuoys can you expect to be fitted with a self-igniting light?
Half of the total number of lifebuoys provided on board.
Only the two life buoys of the quick-release system.
The total number of lifebuoys provided on board.
The two lifebuoys of the quick-release system and at least one other in the vicinity of the stern.
A safety valve is sufficient to prevent a BLEVE.
Wrong, it depends on the product.
Wrong, if the valve is wrongly set.
What is the greatest interest of the “help” position?
It lessens the survivor’s fatigue.
It lessens the survivor’s heat escape.
It lessens the survivor’s stress.
It prevents the survivor’s blood from collecting in the lower part of his body.
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.
An immersion suit will not sustain burning or continue melting after being totally enveloped in a fire for a period of:
What is the meaning of this symbol?
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Area protected by sprinkler.
In which way shall a survivor be hauled out of the sea?
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?
Give the meaning of the following symbol:
Start ventilation of the rescue boat.
Start air filling of the davit launched liferaft.
Start ventilation of the lifeboat.