[esailor Team]

Date : 19th Sept 2023
Exam : Chief mates Unlimited
Results. : Pass – First Attempt
Background: Bulk carrier
Candidate : Akshay Haldankar
Examiner : Capt.Shahid Akhter
Duration : 01 Hour 15 Minutes
Joined the exam 15 minutes before and the examiner joined almost within next 5
minutes. Examiner introduced himself and explained the cheating policy. A brief
room check was carried out. Examiner asked about my background and asked for my
familiarity with the current chief mates examination syllabus.
Told me that I would be examined as a chief mate on a bulk carrier.
Questions might not be in order but tried to recreate as much as I remember,
hope this helps.
1. You are joining as a Chief mate on bulk carrier explain what all things
company will provide you before joining with respect to MLC?
2. What all documentation would you carry on ship while joining.
3. What all information would you expect to receive from outgoing chief officer?
4. How would you go about preparing your stowage plan? Where could you get the
reference from?
5. What are the dangers or concerns associated with bulk carriers? From where
will you get this information?
6. What extra precautions or regulations have been placed to overcome the above?
7. What are Certificates under ISM?
8. What is the survey intervals for ISM-DOC & ISM-SMC?
9. Which inspection does the external parties do regarding ISM-SMC?
10. You are loading Limestone in Malaysia and discharging in Fareham, UK. How
would you go regarding planning as a chief mate.
11. With regards to this voyage, how will you know how much cargo you can carry?
12. What information would you exchange with your Second officer?
13. What heavy weather precautions would you undertake?
14. Brought me to Synoptic charts. Asked how weather would be behind a cold
front? Asked me to verify all the fronts on the chart. Asked me about wind
direction and speed. Also asked me to read the pressure on a given isobar
where he had pointed his cursor.
15. Your vessel is due for load line survey. How would you go about it?
16. What information you will exchange between ship & shore? where you will find
this info?
17. Gave the following:
Summer Displacement: 20000T
Summer Draft: 8.80m
TPCsw: 25
Present Draft: 8.78m
Present Relative density: 1015
Tell me the total cargo that can be loaded and final draft.
18. During approach to Suez Canal, Third officer calls you on the bridge, while
climbing the bridge you hear loud bang. When you look out, you see that a
vessel has rammed in your starboard quarter. Actions as a chief officer.
19. What is damage control plan?
20. What information does a damage control plan contains?
21. What is ESP ? what all ships require this?
22. You proceed towards Suez Canal, and sometime before a container overtook
you, now you find floating containers in sea. What would you do? [was
expecting master’s obligatory report]
23. Line of Buoys Channel:
He said that I was outbound and asked me to answer just like the blue arrow. From
top to bottom.
NORTH
24. Situations:
TSS: PDV crossing from stbd to port. You are following the general direction of
traffic flow, Actions? Few cross questions following the situation.
You are same PDV in TSS, but a sailing vessel is overtaking you. Who is
Responsible? Actions.
After you sound 5OMSARB, he will take that sailing vessel and keep at the end of
TSS but Now she is crossing your bow from Stbd to Port. Actions.
25. Lights:
PDV pushing another PDV seen from stbd. Length of tow less than 200m and
length of pushing vessel more than 50 m.
Looks exactly like this:
VEF with extending gear,
Sailing vessel crossing.
PDV at Anchor,
Vessel aground more than 50m in length.
Dredger stopped or at anchor, Length unknown.
26. Radar plots:
Own vessel heading 000 T. I explained entire plot and quoted from rule 19 to
justify my action of altering to port.
Second plot:
Own vessel heading 020 x 6kts. Analyse the situation and take action. I reduced
speed after explaining the situation as per the rule 19.
O
W
A O
A
W
0900
0906
0912
Good fair examiner, extracts information from you in case if you are stuck
somewhere. Gives you lots of clue if you are lost. No tricky Questions.

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