[esailor Team]

Capacity : Master (Unlimited)
Name of Examiner : Bill Bennett
Mode : Online via Microsoft teams
Date : November-2021
Attempt : First
Result : Pass

I am not repeating the things that you all already know regarding the protocols and how this exam is held. So I’m delving straight into the questions. The order in which the questions appear here might not reflect the actual order in which they were asked.

I was told that he expects me to answer the questions based on the assumption that I was the Master of a 60,000 DWT bulk carrier, unless told so.

1.) What is your understanding of MLC and your responsibility as Master towards ensuring compliance and implementation of MLC onboard?
2.) You mentioned about SEA earlier, what do you think goes into it?
3.) As you are the Master of a bulk carrier, you should know that these ships have certain additional safety measures, what are those?
4.) You mentioned something about ESP, what is it?
5.) You have received orders for your voyage, leaving Glasgow for a port in St. Lawrence in ballast condition to load iron ore. How will you go about it.
6.) So, you expect depression during your voyage, can you tell me the weather associated before it, during it and after it?
7.) What particular advise will you give your chief officer with regards to loading Iron ore cargo.
8.) What are the annexes of Marpol and what do each of them contain?
9.) You mentioned that Annex 3 deals with pollution by harmful substances carried by sea in Packaged form, what advise will you give your chief officer when loading such cargo.
10.) In your answer you mentioned about certain documents, can you explain more about it and how will you help your chief officer to use it?
11.) Is there anything else that you would advise your chief officer to be wary of? (This he asked me because I hadn’t mentioned about de-ballasting concerns during loading phase.)
12.) Ok, now you have discharged your cargo. Company asks you to proceed for dry-docking. Tell me about your planning and preparation for dry-docking.
13.) What advise would you give your chief officer before dry-docking wrt to stability and other important safety related aspects before docking? (Pls include sounding tanks before and after dry docking. He was very particular with this)
14.) Now, you have been informed that class surveyor intends to inspect 1S WBT, how will you go about it?
15.) Ok, so now you have completed your dry docking and is now proceeding for your next employment, when your vessel meets with heavy weather and damages your lifeboat davit and lifeboat itself. What will your concerns be and what will you do in such a situation.?
16.) One day, during hours of darkness, your 3rd Officer calls you and informs you that he suspects that the vessel has run aground. You don’t have tugs and the next high tide where there is a possibility of re-floating is after 12 hours. You cannot wait that long, what will you do.?
17.) What is Salvage, what do you know about it?
18.) Your2nd Officer calls you and informs you that visibility has deteriorated. What will be your concern and how will you face the situation and prepare for it.?
19.) Prepare a Master’s standing order. What are the major points on which you will base your instructions?
20.) What is Bill of Lading, Laycan, demurrage and despatch.?

ROR AND BUOYAGE

1.) Who is give way and who is stand on? Action?

2.) Who is give way and who is stand on? What will you do if the other vsl does not take any action?

3.) Who is give way and who is stand on? What will you do if the other vsl does not take any action?

4.) You are a CBD vsl following traffic lane, A FV is crossing the lane, action?

5.) Action?

6.) Who is responsible to keep clear? And action by own vsl, if other vsl not taking any action.?

7.) You are following a narrow channel and there is a vessel trying to overtake you from starboard side, you cannot permit the overtake, what will you expect to hear from her and what will you do.?
8.) Identify vsl type, day shape and fog signal.

9.) Identify vsl type, day shape and fog signal.

10.) Fog signal for Vsl > and < 100 m when aground and anchor.
11.) To identify pilot vsl, fog signal while at anchor and day signal.
12.) To identify FV, fog signal, day signal.
13.) He asked me about my understanding of rule 6,9 and 18. (I just quoted it, felt it easier after talking at length for so long.)
14.) Buoyage were
• North cardinal mark without topmark. (To identify buoy, light characteristics and purpose.)
• Safe water mark (To identify buoy, light characteristics and purpose.)
• Isolated danger mark. (To identify buoy, light characteristics and purpose.)
• Preferred channel bouys region A & B (Both port and stbd lateral)
• Channel marking bouy region A & B (Both port and stbd lateral)

11. Then he asked me to take out my radar plotting sheet. He then showed me a plotting sheet on the screen.
Own vessel heading 090 Deg, (no vector at this point ) a blip bearing approximately 040 Deg. That’s it.

I then told him to commence systematic plotting.

He then completed the other two blips, and showed own vessel’s vector (12 M) and the OA when produced was on a collision course.
He asked me to complete the WOA triangle on my radar plotting sheet with complete notation. Pretty straight forward one. I then showed it to him and it was in agreement with what he had, which he displayed on the screen a few seconds later.

And..that’s it..
Thank you folks..

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