Anonymous vs Captain Bill Bennett

Captain Bennet – Belfast
December 2021
Length of exam: 1h40
Experience: Ro Pax
Result: Pass
• Master’s responsibilities ISM and SMS requirements
• How do you add procedures to SMS
• Bulk Carrier – Glasgow to St Laurence to load iron ore
• Synoptic chart – wind at Glasgow and expected weather with cold front approaching. What sort
of weather associated with CuNi clouds – was particularly interested in hail
• Routeing Chart – what information will be relevant to the passage if the Mate wants to clean the
holds
• Signs indicating approach of a TRS. What are TRSs known as in North America
• What other countries experience TRSs – Philippines etc. What are they known as locally?
• What are TRSs known as in Australia. Had no idea. Willy Willies apparently
• Where to find more info about TRS and how to escape – NP100
• Bulker – stability concerns and extra safety measures in SOLAS XII
• Where would you find info about Bulker stresses when loading
• Enhanced Survey Programme
• What information is in a stability manual
• Draw and label GZ curve – how would loll curve be different
• Ballast exchange D1 method – where to do it
• Sequence of ballasting DBs to correct a loll
• Intact stability criteria
• Dry-docking as master – what would you tell the Mate. Soundings etc.
• Drydocking as master – what info do you want from the dock – particularly that the fire main will
be charged by dock
• What is P Force, Critical Instant and Critical Period
• Preps for a loadline survey – Mate and Master
• Where would you find loadline and freeboard assignment
• What is freeboard assignment based on – condition of assignment
• Inclining experiment – what is it for, when is it done, how is it done
• You have a cadet onboard – explain all the parts of a compass binnacle and maintenance of
• How would you draw up a deviation card using one lighthouse – he wanted this process in
detail. I didn’t have the detail so he moved on and explained it at the end of the exam and said
it’s probably not a particularly good method…
• MLC Master’s responsibilities
• Hazards of dry stores – infestation
• Death onboard – crushed by a hatch cover. How to deal with the death and potential
implications of faulty hatch cover. Who to inform following the death, log entries, RBD 1/MSF
4605 and how to store the body
• Which MARPOL chapters are particularly relevant to a Bulker
• Oil Record Book entries – what is entered – how do you verify entries before signing
• You are now on a container ship – what advice to the Mate re IMDG code, DG DoC, stowage,
segregation, emergency schedules, MFAG and Packaging(!) of DG
• What is Bill of Lading and what does it entitle the bearer
• What is salvage
• What is a Place of Safety
• What is Lloyds Open Form
• What is General Average
• Now on a ferry – man has gone overboard – immediate actions – Anderson turn etc.
• Have returned to datum and still can’t find him – further actions
• Sector search – how is it done – where to find more information
• Actions on approaching a fog bank
• Radar plot – target on port quarter. Complete the plot and describe action. What action is
described in Rule 19
• PDVs crossing – actions and who is give way, stand on
• PDVs head on situation – is there a stand on vsl
• Vessel overtaking you port side – not keeping clear. Your actions if there is risk of collision as
result
• Talk about Rule 6
• Talk about Rule 9
• Smarty board: CBD, Fishing vessel with 150m gear, towing seen from astern, RAM, pilot vessel,
vessel aground, NUC – fog signals, aspect, lengths, U/W or M/W and day shapes for all
• Buoyage – emergency wreck marking buoy, safe water mark, lateral marks region A and B – light
characteristics and usage of all
• Direction of buoyage symbol on a chart – how to use