20th April 2023 – Donald Donaldson Southampton.
Type of vessels you are on. Offshore Support
Prepare for departure and explain how you will prep the bridge team for the passage plan and rest of crew for the passage.
Passage is UK to Canada.
Counter heavy weather.
How to predict fog, types of fog.
Precautions for Nav in ice.
Synoptic chart, cold front, explain weather. And find wind direction at another section.
Stability list on the vessel. How to check if list or loll.
Identify angle of LOll GZ curve, failed on this.
Explain the intact stability criteria of vessel. I said Not less than 0.15m initial GM that’s all I had.
Exam continued.
Name SOLAS Certs
CSR what chapter from SOLAS is this from.
IMDG Code what SOLAS chapter is this from, what is IMDG Code.
GMDSS, what SOLAS chapter this is from
GMDSS shore based maintenance what is this all about.
MARPOL Certs
What is HSSC
ISM Code certificates
SMS cert periodic times for audit. By company and MCA
2 x crew fighting actions to deal with this matter.
Buoys x 3 in total, one at a time. Isolated danger. Preferred channel to port IALA A,
North cardinal.
Rules in TSS lane, FV and sailing vessel crossing and PDV.
Smarty board
NUC & SV
Towing vessel, length of tow exceeds 200m length of vessel prob over 50m, RAM. With port side light. I said probably making way. He encouraged me to say RAM was the main priority and so definitely making way. Got bit confused there.
Failing point, end of exam, totally fucked up.
Radar image RELATIVE mode, north up, heading north.
ARPA not working so 3 plots O – A all together. Positioned ahead of me on my course. W was not there so just 3 plots together. I was meant to take the vector showing my distance and course from the centre of the radar. I altered course to stbd.
The target was going same course and speed.
End of exam.
I was just short on stability and major fuck up on radar with Restricted Vis
Will try again
Cheers
Alex
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