[esailor Team]

Candidate Muhammad Hamza GMA Candidate
Examiner Mr. Aidan O’Driscoll with Mr. David Fuller – On Microsoft Teams
Date 30 June 2021
Duration 1 hour
Result Pass
• What type of ships have you sailed on?
• OMD alarm, actions?
• For how long will you cool the engine?
• What else do we have as protection on engine for such alarm? (crankcase doors)
• What can you tell me about SEEMP?
• How do ascertain the efficiency of your propulsion system?
• How often to take engine performance?
• How do you take calculate the fuel requirements for your vessel?
• How do you take Bunker? (Was interested in completed procedure from Planning Meeting to the
ORB entries)
• What ISO standard of fuels?
• Do we make an entry somewhere after completing bunkers? (ORB entry for bunkers)
• What is contained on BDN? (Sulphur content)
• What else? (Viscosity And Density and compliance with Marpol Annex VI Regulations 14.1 14.4.
and 18.1)
• What is the impurity in the newer lower sulphur fuels that is causing problems these days?
• What are we looking for in fuel analysis report? (Was looking for metals and term ‘catalytic fines’ in
my answer)
• What is their effect on the engine?
• Have your sailed on vessels with Scrubber systems sailed? (I said no, and he moved on)
• Type of boiler you have sailed on. Meant to ask fire/water tube and vertical/horizontal and capacity
of the boiler
• During your rounds, you discover oil in the cascade tank. What will be your actions? And then he
went deeper in the process and the nature of damages to the boiler if the oil gets carried into the
boiler.
• What statutory certificates are we required to carry onboard? (He stopped me when I reached on
IOPP)
• What are the Survey Intervals of IOPP?
• When is this IOPP survey conducted during the year?
• What ISM certificate is issued to the ship?
• What is the survey interval of SMC?
• What ISM certificate is issued to the company?
• What is the survey interval of ISM DOC?
• Dry-docking steps on lay up birth.
• Which plans are sent out to dock?
• How do we confirm that vessel will sit on the exact position it is supposed to be on the blocks?
(Examiner later explained that the eventual responsibility – of ensuring that the vessel sits correctly –
lies with the Chief Engineer and the Master, so it is prudent that they visit the dock before it gets
flooded)
• After docking, Survey of the bottom of the ship, what to see?
• What measurements do we take on the propeller?
• What to check on propeller?
• What checks and measurements do we take on rudder?
• How to check the propeller for cracks? I went for ultra sonic testing to check the crack depths but he
asked me how can we test with the resources onboard (Die penetrant tests)
• What checks do we make on the tail shaft? (Poker gauge reading)
• What do we compare these poker gauge readings with? (Previous readings and the yard readings)
The examiners were very considerate and lead me towards the answers wherever I hesitated. Towards the
end of the exam, Mr. Fuller took some time and pointed out the weaknesses in my answers. He was also very
kind to give advice for career progression from this point on.
Sincere thanks to Mr. Piyush (GMA) for all his guidance for the exam preparation.

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