Corda vs Alec Keep

Examiner: Alec Keep
Candidate : Warren Corda
Masters Unlimited
Ship types : Cruise Ships
Result: Pass
Date : 10th may 2022
He told me I am here for Masters Unlimited, so I have to answer based on any kind of ship anywhere in the world but for most of the exams he stuck to my type of V/L. The examiner was very fair and made the exam seem like a conversation throughout -even rephrasing the questions when I wasn’t quite sure what he was asking . The exam lasted a solid 1 hour and 45 Minutes.

Was told I would be asked all questions as a Master onboard.

On Cruise ships,

• What will your company check before promoting you to captain. Any induction needed ? extra training ?
• Under ISM code on your ship, what would you be requied to do to ensure compliance as a master
• Company buys new ship and is starting a new company. How would you go about getting it certified and fit to sail
• What are the security protocols you have onboard
• Prepare for a PSSC inspection
• Planning a voyage from Ft. Lauderdale to the norwegian Fjords. How would you do it.
• Tell me about depressions
• Tell me about TRS
• Displayed Surface Analysis chart and pointed to the warm sector of the depression with the cold front already past me, describe the weather you would expect
• How do you get weather warnings
• How do you get navtex warnings/how does navtex work
• Tell me about weather routing charts
• On your passage across the atlantic, you spot a sinking vessel’s Flare…actions. Actions of OSC. How to plan and prepare for SAR
• Fire in a passenger cabin, then spread to the balcony. Actions.
• How do you abandon ship- explain stages in detail
• Lifeboat maximum capacity as per SOLAS
• On arrival to Norway, you have to carry out a 5 yearly load test of Lifeboats. How do you plan and conduct it.
• Certification—why MLC,ISM,SMC,ISSC are done together and by whom

following questions you are on a bulk carrier carrying grain.

• Precautions while loading grain cargo
• Hazards of grain carriage
• Stability criteria for a grain carrying ship
• What documents do you need for loading grain

Back on cruise ships

• Company wants you to sail along with 2 other company ships close to each other for a photoshoot and media opp. What would you do ?
• Interaction between vessels. Overtaking, head on in shallow and restricted water
• Undocking a ship from the pier where its docked in a tight basin. Your thrusters arent working but you have twin screws in operation. Onshore wind and tide from ahead of you .
• Repatriation of crew- when does the crew get repatriated, what if the company doesn’t do it ? how will the crew know their rights in terms of this or what to do in this situation.
• Are all people on cruise ships considered crew ? who isnt ?
• Definition of a “passenger”. Who isnt considered a “passenger”
• Explain rule 19
• Showed a radar picture like the one below and said tell me about everything you see. What actions would you take in restricted visibility

• When in the rules, does it say, you “MUST” take action
• Explain action by stand on V/L
• Explain 2b
• Lights-Identify and action-
tow more than 200m and RAM.
CBD more than 50 m underway
• Traffic situations in sight of one another with explanations and references to the rules being applied-
PDV vs. SV
PDV Vs. RAM
• Buoys- Identify, lights and characteristics , action when seen right ahead
West cardinal
Region B preferred channel to starboard
Special mark, what is it used for
• Definition of a Fishing vessel
• Definition of RAM, give me the examples of RAM

That was it, told me he was happy with the way I had answered and my knowledge and he is going to pass me for the Exam. Gave me feedback on a few of my answers and after that and told me that the completed NOE would be sent by the team.