Anonymous vs Shiva Balasubramanyam

Examiner- Shiva Balasubramanyam
Aug 2023
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Previous experience: Offshore Vsl (OSV)
1hr 26min

• 2nd off preparing PP for next voyage, as a chief officer what information would you expect from 2nd off?

• MLC, Max. Contract period & where you can find this info?

• Dry docking, stability criteria, P force

• What you know about Magnetism in magnetic compass, explain

• Vsl aground your action as a Master, what help would you expect from nearest Port control?

• You are on ballast voyage, weather forecast showing that vsl will be going to encounter heavy rough weather, preparation for heavy weather ballast, which tanks & the sequence.

• You need to ballast a cargo hold, considerations.

• How would you do this.

• What equipment would this cargo hold have which means it could be ballasted.

• Where would I find additional information on this.

• Why can you only ballast certain holds?

• While passage due to rough weather heavy cargo shifted lashings broken in the cargo hold, ship side raptured water ingress, & vsl listed, your action?

• Your vsl connected with the tug for towing your vsl, polypropylene rope with length of 20 mtr. What information you will pass to the tug master & how will you confirm the length of rope is sufficient or not?

• Vsl arrived to the port for loading the cargo, pile of cargo was in jetty for 3 day continues rain. How will you approach for loading as chief off?

• Being a chief officer onboard vsl what is the importance of load lines on the vsl.

• Content of cargo securing manual & use?

• ISM requirements on vsl

• Crew due for sign off, Tell me the repatriation procedure as a Master.

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• From where will you get the all info about the cargo that you are going to load & what all are the other info.you get?

• Iala Preferred to stbd & stbd (Region A & B)

• Safe water mark

• Isolated danger

• East cardinal

• South cardinal

• West cardinal
• Lights were standard except for a RAM tow less than 50m, length of tow less than 200 crossing my head from port to stbd.

• Standard colregs

• Radar plot with just one vessel on Stbd Q action, then talked about what actions we would expect them to take too. After the action taken by both vsl now an undesired situation arises, what is your action as chief off?