[esailor Team]

Examiner: Tim Mathews
Master unlimited.
Time: 1H 50M
Result: Pass

The usual stuff show me around the room.
Questions are not in order.

1. Tell me how would you implement ISM on board?
2. Tell me master’s responsibility under ISM?
3. Masters overriding authority. Under what circumstances will you use it? Where is it mentioned?
4. How would you motivate the crew to follow the SMS?
5. Voyage planning from Rotterdam to Gulf of Mexico?
6. What hazards will you expects if you follow a northern route and southern route?
7. TRS how are they formed, what are the signs, where do they form, how do you know if you are close to the storm?
8. Iceberg how do you get warnings?
9. Where else do you except TRS other than North Atlantic?
10. Voyage planning with relation to bridge team and management from Singapore to Oman?
11. Masters standing orders? What all will you put?
12. Collision action? What will you do with regards to other ship? Who all will you inform?
13. What is a BOL?
14. What is a clean and dirty BOL?
15. What is towage and salvage?
16. In the above scenario, collision would you go for towage or salvage?
17. When can you go for salvage?
18. What is SCOPIC?
19. What do understand by General Average?
20. Chief officer reports AB is coming late for work all the time and bosun reports that he is not listening to me. What will you do?
21. What is informal warning?
22. Okay after you give him informal warning after a week chief officer says this AB and one more person had a big fight and Knife was involved but nobody got hurt. What will you do?
23. Tell me about merchant navy code of conduct?
24. 2/E Italian, 2 AB Filipino and a UK deck cadet joining. How will you sign them on?
25. Young person’s why can’t they do any dangerous work?
26. Young person’s rest hours?
27. Will you allow a young person to keep nav watch at night as he has a letter from company saying he is allowed to keep watch at night?
28. Can CBA be a part of SEA?
29. What is CBA?
30. ISSC steps to obtain?
31. Ice accretion how does it effect your stability?
32. Masters obligatory report under SOLAS?
33. Under what convention is ISPS?
34. What is DOS? Tell me everything on the DOS?
35. OLB contents including for passenger ships?
36. Is it compulsory to carry OLB?
37. What ships are required to carry OLB?
38. Drills tell me all the required drills and period?
39. How long do you keep the OLB for and after that what do you do with old OLB?
ROR
Radar plot
One target forward of your beam Stbd side and one target on stbd qtr both RC? Action and explain why did you take that action?
Your AB hears forward of the beam fog horn action?
One preferred channel buoy region B just name the buoy.

That’s all I remember. Hope it helps. I would like to thank Vinil & Shane for their help.
Best of luck!!!

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