Anonymous

July 2022
Master 200 (PASS)
90 mins
I joined 10 minutes early on teams and
waited for the surveyor to join. He arrived a
couple minutes late, introduced himself.
I had confirm – name, date of birth and
location. I had to show the room was empty
and move the camera all around the room
including ceiling, floor and under the table.
1. How would you approach ‘Passage
Planning’? – 4 stages APEM
2. What’s in the Appraisal stage?
3. What publications for the passage?
4. What would you include in the
planning stage?
5. Asked to plot 075 degrees and draw a
coast line beside it on a piece of paper.
6. Apply 5 degrees leeway If the wind
was blowing from the North.
7. Would you apply this Leeway to
Parallel Indexing?
8. He then shared his screen which had a
chart on it, and pointed to a few things
and I had to answer. 1 compass rose,
2. Calculate the variation change, 3.
Pilot station, Calling Station and to
another symbol which was a wreck
with a depth he the asked me what is
the tray symbol underneath – I would
refer to NP5011, he seemed happy
enough with this answer
9. How would you know the chart has
been corrected? WNM
10. What certification are you required to
carry onboard? (He wanted to hear
SVC)
11. What is MGN 280?
12. Explain hours of rest and which
legislation?
13. What Health & Safety information do
you have onboard? Cowsp + Sms
14. And how do you know if you have an
enclosed space? Coswp
15. Shared his screen again and said
explain this – it was a synoptic chart.
16. Pointed to a few symbols I had to say
what it was – cold front, warm front,
occluded front.
17. What kind of weather would you
expect in a Depression around the
Northern Hemisphere?
18. How would you set up Navtext
19. How would you set up Radar?
20. Limitation of Radar?
21. What does Sart stand for and how
does it work?
22. What does Epirb stand for and how
does it work?
23. When should the master be called to
the bridge?
24. You’re an OOW on a yacht just less
than 500gt, what handover details
would you expect coming on watch?
25. What standing orders would you
expect
26. You’re taking a watch on the bridge as
an OOW on a yacht, your steering is
set to autopilot. it’s 2am and you’re
120 miles off land however the traffic
density is very busy and your vessel
starts steering hard to stbd and your
vessel is going round in circles. Your
crew informs you one out of the two
steering pumps are leaking, what are
your actions? *Remember to include
Switch to manual steering and switch
over to the other pump.
27. What is a DSC? How do you send a
distress in a DSC? State which
channel?
28. You have a fire onboard – how would
you transmit a spoken radio telephony
Distress and state which channel?
29. You have had a collision with a wind
turbine, the crew report an oil spill –
what is your actions?
30. You’re in port and you have some
heavy cargo to crane on – how would
you prepare the vessel? (He was
looking for using ballast)
31. You have joined a vessel and you’re
about to depart, would you sail with
the tanks half full?
32. Ror questions –actions: pdv crossing
on stbd side, FV crossing on port side.
33. Buoys (identity and actions)
34. Night lights: vessel engaged in towing
which is RAM and the tow is over
200m, probably over 50m towing two
other vessels.
35. In restricted visibility, you hear a fog
signal, forward of the beam – what is
your action?