[esailor Team]

Examiner: Danny Hawkins
Experience: Yachts
Result: Pass
Time: approx 1 hour 45 minutes

– Where are you today?
– Show me around your room and discussed general exam procedure, MIN 653
– What is your experience?

I cannot recall all the questions, there were probably many in between but this is as I recall them. A lot of questions relating to my answers. The ordering is as best as I can remember.

Exam start:
1. Joining as Master, what certificates would you expect the vessel to have?
2. What ISM certification? ISM DOC, SMC, Logbooks, check SMS
3. What other certificates for ISM? What else will they check?
4. Second Officer joins, what certificates will you check?
5. What is an SEA? What is in it?
6. Put multiple charts on screen and asked me to say what I see. Identify objects.
7. 2nd Mate doing passage plan from Lisbon to NY, he is first trip, What will you as C/O, discuss with him?
8. How will you take this ship off the berth? No thrusters, tide coming down? No wind. RH pitch.
9. Loading coal, what do you need from port before loading?
10. What should be done prior?
11. What will you check onboard?
12. Explain how will you determine how much you can load?
13. How can you check on loading computer?
14. What is a draught survey? What is this?
15. What will you do after you are loaded?
16. Tell me about fumigation?
17. How will you know you have the correct load? Will you trust the port?
18. Ship has grounded what will you be checking? What will you do?
19. What are the lifting inspection requirements for the ships cranes/derricks?
20. What will they test the crane to, will this be to the SWL?
21. How will they conduct these tests?
22. Radar plot, onscreen wouldn’t work so he asked me to complete a plot on my sheet and tell me what actions?
23. Ships approaching restricted visibility, what will you expect to be done on the bridge?
24. What sound signal?
25. How long is a prolonged blast?
26. Buoyage on screen, what are these buoys? EMWK BUOY, east and see east cardinal, IALA B, many others
27. What will you be completing once cargo is loaded?
28. Tell me about timber deck cargo?
29. Going to dry dock, you’re master and having a meeting with Dry dock master, what will you discuss?
30. What is a shell expansion plan?
31. Where will the blocks go?
32. Where else? Can they go anywhere on ships hull?
33. What as mate will you be checking prior to dry dock?
34. What is the first thing you will do when in dry dock?
35. Left drydock and now deep sea, fire alarm goes in engine room. Actions as master.
36. You said check list, what is on there?
37. COLREGS, lights and shapes, many on screen
38. Ship is ready to sail, pilot is onboard, certificates, stability, etc all checked, and ok. What will you do prior to sailing?
39. Nav equipment, start up checks, machinery all tested, tidal, met, UKC, squat. What else?
40. Tell me what you know about beaching?
41. How will you do beaching?
42. How will you let other ships know?
43. Enclosed space entry into wing ballast tank. Tell me how you will do this.
44. What is stowage factor?

Examiner dug deep into cargo, this was a lot of the exam, he will pick up on the things you mention and ensure you know what you are talking about. He seemed to have an answer in mind for every question and if I didn’t say it he would allow me to keep talking until he moved me on or dig into my answer.

Good luck to all.

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