Anonymous vs Muhammad Iqbal

Master Unlimited
Examiner: Muhammad Iqbal
Location: Liverpool Marine Office (Online)
Result: Pass
Time: 1hr 40 min
Experience: Predominantly AHTS
Questions
1. You’re joining your ship (AHTS), tell me all the certificates you’ll find? Associated documents for
MLC Certificate?
2.Who issues the certificates, Alternative Compliance Scheme and Enhanced Authorisation Scheme?
3. What are the 3 categories of an auditor’s findings?
4.What are you going to do if you receive a Major Non-Conformity?
5. You’re now on a bulk carrier. You are to proceed to a deep water anchorage, how are you going to
do that?
6.How many shackles will you let out?
7. The OOW calls you and suspects that the anchor is dragging, how are you going to determine
whether or not this is true? What are you going to do if the anchor is dragging?
8. What are you going to put in your night orders for your OOW’s while at anchor until the pilot at
0500 tomorrow morning?
9. Ballast Water Management, D1 method? What are the concerns of doing this while the vessel is in
ballast?
10. The pilot is going to board, what are they going to ask you?
11. The helmsman reports to you that the steering is sluggish, what may be causing this? What are
the other signs of squat?
12.You are to load a cargo of iron ore. The Chief Officer wants to know how to load it and how much
he can load.
13. The cargo on the wharf looks very wet, what are your concerns and what are you going to do?
14. You’re leaving Sydney, Australia for a Port in Indonesia, talk me through the passage planning as
Master and who you are going to talk to.
15. You’re in the Indian Ocean in January what weather may you encounter?
16. How are you going to steer out of the dangerous semi-circle of a TRS?
17. The TRS destroys your X-Band radar, what are you going to do?
18. You are steering 270° for a week, the OOW calls you and says that there appears to be large
deviations on the magnetic compass, what could be causing this?
19. What are you going to do about the magnetic compass?
20. What is gaussing error? How do you degauss a ship?
21. You get into Port and get a Port State Inspection, what are the types of Inspections that you may
get?
22. What safety measures are taken for bulk carriers, how high are the water ingress monitors
mounted?
23. So you work on AHTS, tell me how you are going to approach the offshore installation in DP2? (I
believe that these questions were directed at me as I’m in the industry, for those of you who aren’t I
think that it would be highly unlikely that the examiner would ask you this.)
24. What items are on your 500m Checklist for approaching the Offshore Installation and where
does this checklist come from? (The SMS)
25. What is inherently hazardous for Offshore vessels in bad weather? (Low freeboard, down
flooding risk if hatches and doors aren’t closed, water on deck causing a hazard to crew, water being
retained in pipe cargo causing free surface effect and reducing GM and therefore requiring end caps
to be fitted to pipes.)
26. You’re on your AHTS, you respond to a Mayday call, tell me your actions.
27. You arrive on scene, you are the only vessel and you see a liferaft, what do you do?
28. the FRC returns to the ship with four survivors from the fishing boat, they say that their Captain
is unaccounted for, what are your going to do?
29. Colregs – A few different types of vessels, nothing out of the ordinary except a crossing situation
with a PDV exactly 22.5° abaft my Starboard beam, vessels are in sight of one another. I said that I’d
alter my course to Starboard which he questioned me on.
30. Vessels at night, identify the type and the action you would take? (Nothing out of the ordinary
here)
28. A few radar plots, applying rule 19.
29. Lastly, came back to the vessel exactly 22.5° abaft my beam. He asked me if I could go to Port,
which I replied that yes, but I’d parallel the other vessels course and not cross ahead of them.
That was the last question and then he passed me!
Big thanks to the lads at Whitehorse for their help!