[esailor Team]

Date: 01/11/2023
MASTER Unlimited
Examiner: Capt. Colum Leggett
Start: 09:00
End: 09:45
Offshore – various
PASS

Usual song and dance with introductions. And straight into the exam.

1. What was your last vessel? – Multibuster – Asked for imo number of my previous vessel as he wanted to see the type and details of the vessel online.
2. How will I take over as Master?
3. What certificates will I check? He did not hear me say cert of registry (which I did say) so he asked me what’s the validity of it.
4. Special purpose ship certificate, what is it?
5. Whats different for SPS ships? – Stability criteria
6. What lsa we have on board? How many liferafts?
7. How will I launch and board? Will you expect people to jump in the water?
8. Equipment in liferaft? What will the vessel crew carry?
9. Passage plan from Persian Gulf to the North Sea, considerations?
10. Synoptic chart – warm front and occluded front – what to expect?
11. What is ACS?
12. How will I prepare for anchoring?
13. Chief officer bullying AB´s. Makes them work extra and mark less hours on HOR sheet. Actions?
Here I said ill speak / listen to both and give a written warning to Chief off. He was ok with that but, asked why I didn’t amend rest hours?
14. Because of the above, he said now PSC has visited and have seen these HORs being wrongly filled, additionally they have found 5 other deficiencies, actions? – close deficiencies, find root cause and if it’s the companys fault – NC . he was happy with the answer.
15. What is PSC?
16. Asked if my vessel had 2 engine rooms ( vsl being dp 2). To which I said no and all 6 generators are in the same space.
17. Fire on one of the generators – action? Told him about shutting off fuel, isolations and using water mist which was above the said gen.
18. Will I shut off fuel to the other generators? Replied yes to be safe.
19. What will happen? Blackout etc
20. What does the emerg generator power to?
21. Now fire has been extinguished, will I start the other generators? At this point I looked at him cause I didn’t know where he was going. He noticed this and told me he was curious to know what possibilities were there for us if there is a fire on any one generator. Well, he didn’t know, I didn’t know so we moved on. ( it is what it is. Take action as per the situation)
22. When do we adjust the compass?
23. What preparations for the adjuster and how would he do the tentative swing?
24. Concerns as master if I had to go on a vessel with slow speed engines? – emissions
25. Difference between Salvage and towage?
ROR and Buoys
26. Emergency wreck buoy – only lights?
27. RAM dredger making way
28. RAM dredger underway, stopped or at anhor
29. PDV on port side
30. PDV on stbd side
31. CBD me, PDV on stbd side.
32. RV true trails and relative vectors.
Vessel on port bow ROC
Vessel on stbd bow and a vessel abaft the stbd beam overtaking. ROC exists with both.

PASSED

Very clam and practical examiner. He is only part time examiner now as he is near retirement. Doesn’t waste any time, once he hears what he wants he moves on no matter how short the answer. A lot of questions but very quick finish. Also a lot of chit chat.
If you do make an error and get cornered, be practical and get out of the situation without harming PEP.

Special thanks to Kalpesh Tandel for the everyday help and support in preparing for the exam.
Sheldon and Santosh your teams call the day before helped a lot.
GMA for all the material and guidance for clearing the orals smoothly.

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