[esailor Team]

Master Mariner Unlimited – Oral Exam
Date – 3rd March 2025 @ 09:00
Exam Length – 65 mins
Examiner – Khairul Anam
Experience – Passenger ships and Jack-Ups
Result – Pass
Logged into Teams 15 minutes early and examiner logged in around 5 minutes later.
Asked where I was in the world and had a bit of a general chat before he checked the
room, ID, asked to share screen and ran through the general conduct of the exam.
Asked me about experience and said that for the purpose of the exam I would be Master
on my last vessel.
1. Tell me about your last vessel?
2. You mentioned you have Diesel Electric engines, tell me about documentation
and bunkering onboard?
3. What information is available on a Bunker Delivery Note?
4. You mentioned you comply with MODU? What is that?
5. What is available onboard regarding MODU? (He was wanting operations
manual)
6. What is the operations manual?
7. As Master how would you ensure your crew are following SMS?
8. How often would you review the SMS?
9. What is DPA?
10. You mentioned they have contact to high levels within the company, how high?
11. What is CSO?
12. How do you make sure your vessel is complying with stability requirements in
MODU when doing lifting operations? What are those requirements?
13. Who is responsible for ballasting onboard? Tell me the process onboard? What
would you sign?
14. Sections of OLB?
15. What would you sign in OLB when taking over?
16. What else would you write in narrative section?
17. What is the MAIB?
18. Where would you find more information about them and what to report?
19. You mentioned SPS code? What is that?
20. Where could you find more information on that?
21. What would you be checking regarding SPS crew/what is the requirement for
them to be onboard?
22. What would you be checking when you have new crew member sign on?
23. What is a young person?
24. What dibers for them?
25. I’ve experienced on a vessel like yours that the turbine blades on it were covering
the sector of side lights. If that was your vessel and I was about to detain you,
what would you do?
26. What is a Letter of Protest?
27. What is a Note Protest then?
28. What onboard would be abected by the amount of extra steel you have?
29. What errors would you get on Magnetic compass?
30. What is retentive error?
31. What do Kelvin’s balls correct for?
32. Why would you only get one Kelvin’s ball on a magnetic compass?
33. Have you ever been involved in any emergencies?
34. Medical emergency, what would you do in port vs at sea?
35. What would you be telling your bridge obicers when doing passage plan?
36. How would you know the ECDIS was up to date?
37. What are the limitations of ECDIS?
38. We see a lot of issues with pilot ladders and they are a big cause of accidents –
how would you expect it to be rigged? What would you ensure as Master?
39. How would you know if new pilot ladder was safe for use?
40. What does the European Standards mark look like?
41. You’re sailing ob the coast of Norway, what would be your concerns regarding
ice? Where would you get information from regarding it?
42. You see ice that is not forecast, what would you do?
43. Where would you log that you had done a danger message?
44. What are the dangers of ice accretions?
45. What is the Polar Code and who does it apply to?
46. Going to share my screen with you now, tell me what actions you would do (all
information regarding course speed for both vessels was on the screen)?
47. Who is give way vessel in this situation?
Vessel abeam or nearly abeam –
said I would avoid an alteration of
course towards a vessel abeam.
So, I could either A/C to port or
slow down
A
O
W
What is the other vessel doing?
Vsl crossing – I would avoid an
alteration of course towards a
vessel abeam or abaft the beam,
so would make a bold a/c to stbd.
Well, I think you have done enough to prove yourself capable. I’m happy to tell you that
you’ve passed. (Very surprised to have no COLREGS, buoys or lights situations)
Big thanks to GMA for the prep and the other candidates on the batch for all the help
along the way!

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