[esailor Team]

Martin Slaven less than 900KW Chief engineer orals GMA Candidate 27/01/21
Examiner: Andrew Dewar
Location: Online
Time: 1 hour 15 mins

He began by introducing himself and going through a checklist he had on checks such as passport etc. He then asked me to show him around the room and make sure all doors to the room were closed. This process took about ten mins all in, but helped settle nerves a bit.
1. What kind of boats do you work on, what location do they sail?
2. Voyage planning. How do you prepare? How do you know how much fuel you will need? How much extra fuel would you carry?
3. Certs on board
4. What IMO conventions can you name, relating to certs.
5. How does the MCA issue guidance? What type of M notices and what are they for?
6. Planned based maintenance vs condition monitoring? How do you carry out vibration monitoring, what areas are you interested in checking?
7. Checks on reduction Gear box, what kind of bearings are in use?
8. How would you check thrust bearing? What type of thrust pads (material).
9. How do you check efficiency of a shell / tube cooler?
10. Sea water differential rising, actions?
11. Sea water outlet temp at cooler dropping and engine running hotter, cause / actions?
12. Do you have stabalisers? What kind? What checks are you carrying out?
13. What are you looking for with oil results (stabiliser hydraulic oil)? Actions and probable cause of higher copper content.
14. How would you perform work on hydraulic system – safety concerns.
15. Performance checks on engine? (mentioned electronic tests such as solenoid and injector cut-outs). What if you had an older engine?
16. What is the load of your bowthrust motor? How is it run?
17. How does a freq drive work? How to calculate frequency? (I said speed / number of poles, Im not sure its correct, but he seemed happy enough)
18. Safetys on bowthrust board?
19. Screenshared 2 x drawings, one of D.O.L, One a star/delta start – what are the safetys? What kind of safetys and how do they work?
20. One drawing had an ammeter on one phase. What is it? How does it work? (current transformer etc)
21. Fire detector tests, how to test, how often? How to test call points. Who to inform when testing etc
22. What to check on shaft earth system? What would happen if wasn’t working, potential faults etc
23. What are safetys on main switch board. Purpose of pref trips, how do they work?
24. Describe reverse power. How do you test? How does it work? What is limit and time normally?
He ended it there and told me he was happy with my answers, kept looking at notes as if he wanted to ask me another question, but didn’t. He was a very fair examiner and would help you get to the answer he was looking for.

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