[esailor Team]

Masters Unlimited
14-Jan-2022
Examiner: Capt. S. Twitchin
Started with the usual story about syllabus and code of conduct.
Asked me to tell him about my career to date and a bit on my current vessels particulars.
• Joining freight ferry as master asked me about what I’m looking for?
• gave him full answer company briefing and joining as per our notes
• he stopped me at certificates and asked about CSR
• Gave him info on CSR parts 1, 2, 3
• Stopped me again and said you’re on cert #5 and you see CSR #3 missing, actions?
• Told him ask flag and rss for replacement, n.c and root cause analysis
• He asked about N.Cs and under what code we issue them
• ISM code and told him about promulgating amongst fleet to prevent recurrence
• Asked me expiry dates for various certs as i went along, finished joining answer
• Prep for voyage from liverpool to carribean?
• full voyage and departure prep as per notes
• Pre departure a crane hits your life boat cracking it, actions?
• LOP, call class/flag/company/charterers, i went down CAP route and extra life rafts, said
i want an extra 100% each side
• gyro failure actions?
• standard answer
• C/O calls and says he cant get cook on phone?
• he was a bit funny on this one, wanted me to search with a person and have bridge
comms for initial search, cook still not found, GA and full search as per stowaway
search plan.
• Cook found dead in bunk?
• Full normal answer
• 3/0 hits fishing boat actions?
• standard answer
• how do you recover persons from water?
• he specifically wanted what were we going to ask them, he wanted names, ages,
nationality, how many where onboard, who to notify
• PSC vs Flag state
• normal stuff and tried to kill time here with history of PSC and CERS, THETIS and NIR
• Find drugs in ABs cabin, actions?
• disciplinary and dismissal, notify authorities and P&I (legal help with smuggling under
indemnity), full search of V/L for more drugs
• Colleges rule 19, v/l crossing from port side and coming up from port quarter(not overtaking)
• he gave a first blip and had to go through how to establish a plot
• just recited r19 and said go stbd, he asked if i could do anything else and i said slow
down but prefer to go stbd, he asked why and i said r8, alteration of course alone most
effective action to avoid collision
• r19 v/l slightly forward of beam and close
• said too close to go stbd so i slow down, he asked if i could do anything else
• quoted rule 19 and “so far as possible the following should be avoided” so if
necessary go to port
• buoyage
• iala b preferred ch to stbd
• isolated danger
• TSS identify responsibility for each and actions? You are green, PDV beside, SV ahead,
crossing PDV next, FV final
• CBD crossing from port, what rules apply and actions?
• standard
• CBD overtaking, actions?
• stand on and 5 short
• Detailed explanation of impeding passage vs impeding safe passage
He then said that was the exam, ran through the questions with me and gave me notes on my
answers in a detailed manner, said id passed then we had a chat about covid
a good examiner, asks fair questions but expects very detailed responses
PD
PD F/V

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