[esailor Team]

08/10/2020
OOW unlimited-Pass
Was early to the call, about 20 minutes.
Showed him around the room i was in and showed him my signatures. Asked what type of ships I was on(Pax ships).
1. APEM
 Publications was a main thing
2. What’s on a routing chart
3. Difference between paper charts v ECDIS
4. Chart symbols-
 pilot station
 South Cardinal,
 Lighthouses,
 tidal diamonds,
 sector lights
5. Loading a wire rope, what are the things you’re looking for before loading it on baord
6. Synoptic chart
 Trough
 Cold Front
 Warm Front
 Warm front at height
 Low Pressure
 High Pressure
 Occluded Front
7. How to load timber
8. Hazards with timber
9. What do you do in a port watch
10. How often do you take fixes when you’re coastal
11. Types of distress
 Reeled off ANNEX 4
12. EPRIB how does it work
13. SART how does it work
14. What is navtex,
 what is the range of navtex
 what are the mandatory stations
15. What is a periscope
16. Magnetic compass
 What liquid is in a magnetic compass and why
 Parts and inspecting of magnetic compass
17. Masons hygrometer
18. Marine barograph
19. Hydrometer
 diff between DWA and FWA.
 How to calculate DWA
20. Launch a lifeboat on pax ships( so told him it would already be at embarkation deck from survival craft muster station and went from there)
21. Difference between variation and deviation
 where do you find them
 What is on a deviation card
 Variation calculation
22. Collision with another vessel. Actions
23. Parts and correctable errors on a sextant
24. Heavy weather. Actions
25. Fire in paint locker -bridge actions and on scene command actions
26. Asked me about M notices( MSN’s, MGN’s and MIN’s)
27. Radar plot
28. What is a bold and substantial action
29. Fishing vessel port side(astern/ gear extending more than 150m)
30. CBD vessel
31. Towing seen from astern
32. Towing vessel-inconscious submerged object breadth less than 25m
33. REALLY LIKED TO ASK ABOUT THE ARC OF VISIBILITY IN ALL THE ABOVE SITUATIONS
34. Safe water mark
35. South cardinal heading south
Halfway through the south cardinal he stopped me and said you have passed. Very fair guy, but he does not give much away when you’re answering questions! Didn’t seem to like the fact when he asked me about fire/ collision that I said get out the companies SMS checklist. Just asked me what was on it.

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