Anonymous vs Trevor Hughes

• Oral Report :
• Date :18th April ‘ 2023
• Chief Mates Unlimited
• Examiner : Trevor Hughes
• Time : 1 Hr 20 Mins
• Result : Fail
• Vessel : Bulk Carrier
• Asked what type of ships I have done. I told him I did bulk carrier.
• 1.Tell me about your last vessel ?
• 2.You are joining new vessel in new company as chief officer tell me what will you observe as per ISM?
• 3. what are the functional requirements as per SMS ?
• 4. what are the documents onboard as per ISM?
• 5. what are the main objective of ISM?
• 6. DOC and SMC validity period and inspection period and by whom ?
• 7. The validity of certificates and inspections interval of company internal audit ?
• 8. What is the objective of ISPS?
• 9. SSO requirement ?
• 10. Contents of SSP ?
• 11. When will DOS will be issued?
• 12. Showed a forward draft mark photo , read the draft mark ?
• 13. what is the height of draft mark ?
• what is FWA and DWA ?
• 14. Showed a numerical question , given FWA – 62.5mm, TPC- 15, DW density -1.005 Port side draft mark at SLL , stbd mark 5cm below SLL , how much you will load to bring it to SLL ? ( ans: 150t)
• 15. thickness of loadline mark ?
• 16. Showed a pic of GZ curve showing stable and Loll in the same graph , what is it ?
• 17. what is stable equilibrium ?
• 18. what is angle of loll ?
• 19. what do you think will cause loll ?
• 20. you said virtual loss of G ? reason for it ? want to hear FSE
• 21. what is FSE ? What is FSM?when will it effect the most ? in single tank or sub-division tank.
• 22. The vessel in loll stbd side , 3 bottom tank port , centre , stbd . how will you correct the loll condition ?
• Showed a pic of ECDIS , vessel in narrow channel , ecdisroute track, vessel past track showing vessel moved to land and came back , COG towards shallow water . what do you understand by it ?
• 23. GPS failure , how will you handle situation as COF ?
• 24. how wil you determine your position?
• 25. What is PI ?
• 26. what about COG , what will you do about it ? what about steering , what all will gps failure effect?
• 27. How will you anchor narrow channel with tide from stern and engine failure?
• 28. You are going to load cargo what all preparations you do as a CO on bulk carrier
• 29.info you get from IMSBC
• 30.how wil you carry out hold preparations
• 31.showed a triangle below deck line, what do you understand by this ?
• 32.IALA buoyage – you are east bound , you see this buoy (west cardinal without top mark ) , action?
• 33. how will you report this missing top mark ? IHO 102 A
• 34. showed buoyage channel heading west inbound region A ,pass through buoy and tell me characteristic of buoy – lateral port hand buoy, lateral preferred channel to stbd buoy, iso- danger buoy, special mark buoy ( can ), lateral preferred channel to stbd.
• 35. smarty card – 2 red light – characteristic ?
• 36. you see it on 4 point stbd , action ?
• 37. FV – hampered with purse seine gear ( 2 yellow flashes) , you see this on 2 point stbd , action ?
• 38. what will you explain cadet about FV ? I explained all type of FV condition including trawler condition ie shooting nets, hauling nets, fast at obstruction and 150 mtr extending gears . precaution and which side to alter vessel.
• 39. where you find this type of FV and precaution for navigation ?
• 40. Smarty card – PDV seen from slight port side , you see this vessel 4 point abaft your stbd beam , what situation and action ? She is overtaking you so what are your obligations here.
• 41. He showed stbd side is Rv and port side is clear visibility now , do you have any obligation in this condition?
• 42. smarty card : dreger conducting underwater operation seens from head on , characteristic and action ?
• 42.radar plot : your course 220, spd 4kts 1 tgt :2 point stbdbow, spd 6kts , cpa 6 nm, 2nd tgt : stbd quarter 3 nm, cpa :0, 3rd tgt : port quarter 5 nm cpa : 0.15nm , what will be your action?
• 43. you said you will reduce and take all way off , explain your action to 3OF ? explained rule 19
• 44. What will you for vessel on stbd bow for the previous situation.
• 45. He said why not reduce 1 or 2 kts , why to take all way off ? taking action evident to other vessel .