Anonymous vs Delowar H

Master Unlimited –Resit
Examiner – Delowar H Time : 2.5 Hours

Exam Started same as any other, quick bit of chit chat, what’s your experience etc. . Scanned the room and checked my ID and ran through T’s&C’S.

He did state he would only accept my first answer as a ships master and there were a few occasions he reminded me of this when I rushed to answer. As such he would tell me to sip water which was a good promote to slow down!

Then went into the syllabus.
He put me on chemical tanker.

• Joining as master from Jetty and what you will be check on gangway.
o Taking over as a master.
o What statutory certificates you will take over
o What cargo documents you will be take over.
• Cargo operation
o How to load new cargo on chemical tanker.
o What is your role as a master on receiving new cargo order.

At this point of the exam he switched to a power point with his questions on, which initially through me somewhat
• MLC
o Describe Masters responsibility under MLC
o Under which statutory requirement in which crew have right to complained on board. As a master what action, you will take over on that complained.
• Electronic navigation
• When would you Test the VDR
• Show me radar screen & tell him this is ground stabilize or sea stabilize .
• What I difference between ground stabilize and sea stabilize.
• Asked for a True bearing of an object with a HWB of 2 degrees

• He then showed me a Northern Hemisphere TRS with a ship in position on the Right Back Quadrant:
o Actions to clear TRS
o What are your considerations as Master
• Salvage
o You Black out in the TRS and a vessel offers assistance but Refuses to use LOF what are you going to do.
o Article 13 & 14 Describe
o SCOPIC Describe
• Describe Note of Protest and when you would issue it

• At what Latitude would your Gyro and Mag compass be unreliable

• Squat
o What is it
o When would you expect to experience it
• Vessel Grounds Actions as master
o Subsequent actions
• GZ Curve
o Draw it and describe it for a stable ship
• GMDSS
o Responding to a Mayday in A3 on VHF
• Limitations of ARPA
• GPS fail how will you set your radar to ground stabilize.
• ECDIS
o Literally asked everything to do with ECDIS standards and presentation libraries
o He showed me a few symbols and asked what they were
o What is scamin and disadvantage of SCAMIN.

• Then moved into Buoyage, ROR and Res Vis

o Situations
o vessels in a TSS, fishing vessel crossing from port side.
o PDV on Port Side and 2nd. Off give five short ballast and call you on bridge. Action as a master. Showing on radar screen TRUE brg , COURSE of own vsl and Target vsl.- basically find out Aspect of target vsl and then ans.
• Lights
o Asked me to describe All the lights on the page and sound signals and actions:
 Me PDV, Vessel ahead aground
 Me PDV,Vessel ahead NUC Under way making way (slightly heading off Stbd) ask me heading of NUC vsl. – this is the point where I was stuck.
 Vessel Ahead Aground

• Bouys
o Wanted entire thing for them, ID, Lights,Top mark, Action

o North cardinal heading north
o West Cardinal heading 135.
o Safe water mark
o Special mark in shape of a can
o IALA A preferred channel to Stbd
• Res Vis
o Vessel Ahead me overtaking plus vessel port QTR no risk of collision
o Vessel STBD Bow No risk of collision, Vessel Port bow Risk of collision and Vessel Stbd Qtr No risk of collision overtaking us.

Read electronic navigation carefully. As always take your time!!