kaisar

Orals Report
Masters Unlimited
Kaiser Ali
1hr 20Mins
Background – cruise ships and yachts
We spoke quite a lot in the beginning about my experience, he seemed keen to hear I had not just worked
on yachts. Asked what my plans were for the future. And then how covid was impacting the industry.
ISM – Masters Responsibilities – PMCVR
Why is it a good idea to review?
All certification
ISPS
Duties of the SSO
When to exchange a DoS
Certification
SSP contents and who can see what
Safety Officer
What advice would you give to your brand new chief officer taking over as safety officer.
What would he do before issuing a permit to work
Structure of the safety meeting – how would you advise him to conduct his first meeting.
All statutory certificates- a few explain its validity.
Voyage plan Monaco to Fort Lauderdale
All departure preparations
Advice to 2nd mate for passage planning
100 miles off Lisbon you are experiencing force 10 winds actions.
Chef has decided not to follow your guidance and was frying – badly burned
This led onto arranging a medivac
Preparations for heli ops
Comms with the helicopter
Disciplinary and dismissal of the chef
MCA dispensation for sailing short – questions on SMD
Who would you be obliged to inform
How would you prepare the vessel for an MLC survey?
All documentation required
Then I stated talking through the 14 points got to 8/9 and he stopped.
Tell me all about the complaint’s procedure under MLC
MARPOL –
Annex 1 certification – ORB – FORM A – Discharge Criteria – SOPEP
Annex 4 certification
Annex 5 Certification – how would you know that its being implemented onboard – what can you
discharge in a special area
Annex 6 Certification – Sox + Nox – ECA
What is your understanding of PSC?
Mca doing inspection on uk flagged vessel as port state.
Rules + Buoyage – this is where it all went a Little wrong with technology. Rules was nothing like we had
ever practised. His screen sharing wouldn’t work so just started asking questions.
Rule 19
Explain safe speed
What can you not do in restricted visibility
Explain part e in your own words
You are in or near an area of restricted vis what would you expect you OOW to have done.
We then had some success with the power point – the whole way throughout the ordeal vinyls voice was
in my head ‘just keep telling him it’s not working’
But I owned up and said it was working
Buoyage – for all buoys – lights and what they mean – some he gave a course and your inbound/outbound
etc..
North Cardinal
Em. Wreck Buoy
South cardingal
IALA b can pref to stbd inbound outbound 2nd to pref
Some RADAR plots – it was a radar screen that went around 3 times. Each sweep produces another ‘dot’ I
double checked everything with him as I hadn’t seen it done like this before – clarified exactly what I was
looking at. I spoke through all the targets
On a CBD – RAM on the port side
There were some lights and shapes. Pretty sure we went through all possible combinations as we were just
chatting through the lights he asked the following:
• Colours of lights
• Arcs of Visibility
• Day Shapes – mention they are black
• Sound signals – asked meaning of U and L I mixed them up then corrected myself.
We spent probably 5-10 minutes just chatting through the different combinations
Search and rescue
Explain a sectored search
Your sleeping and the 2/0 called you up sighting a red flare – I was primed and ready to hit him with a
submarine in distress – one of the MFP’s. but he asked what all distresses I would send – mayday relay.
Then the magic words – with those two words ‘mayday relay’ it’s a pass!
We spoke for a while after just about Glasgow.