[esailor Team]

Candidate: Iain Robb
Experience: Offshore vessels (SSV, AHTS, PSV)
Exam: Chief Officer Unlimited
Surveyor: Kaiser Ali
Date: 07 March 2022
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes
Result: Pass
1. Explained the MCA policy and requirements for online oral examinations
2. General questions about my vessel, type of trade, trading area and cargo
3. What certificates do you require under the ISM Code
4. How is the ISM Code implemented on board
5. How does the ISM Code apply to you as Chief Officer
6. What information will you find in the SMS with regards to operational procedures
7. What are the responsibilities of the safety officer
8. According to COSWP, how often as safety officer do you require to inspect the areas
of your vessel
9. What is the function of the MLC to seafarers and what certificates do you require to
carry
10. You have two 17-year-old cadets joining, as Master, what considerations do you
require to make
11. What information would you expect to find in your S.E.A.
12. What is a CSR and how do you update it?
13. When do you require to exchange a DoS
14. What LSA did you have on your last vessel
15. What FFE did you have on your last vessel
16. What determines the number of lifebuoys you require to carry on board
17. You are required to carry 14 lifebuoys on board
18. How often do you require to manoeuvre a lifeboat on the water
19. You are at anchor, weather is good, Captain wants you to do the 3-month
maintenance of the lifeboat, describe the full process: launch, manoeuvre and
recovery
20. How do you test the limit switches on the lifeboat davit
21. Describe to me how you would test your fire pumps to a surveyor
22. The surveyor would like to test the fire isolation valves, how would you go about this
23. What standing orders would you leave as a Chief Officer
24. How would you deal with a spill of DG
25. You are on a containership, you have lost containers overboard, what will you do
26. What type of message will you transmit to vessels in the vicinity
27. You are the Master of a ship sailing across the Atlantic from Europe to USA, it is this
time of year, there are lots of depressions, what precautions would you take for
these depressions?
28. Describe to me your understanding of PSC and the Paris MOU
29. Where would you find out additional information on how your ship gets a risk profile
30. You are going to drydock, what information do you require to find out from the
docking master
31. What is P force
32. Describe an angle of list, what could result in an angle of list and how you would
correct for it
33. Describe an angle of loll, what could result in an angle of loll and how you would
correct for it
34. What is safety contour and safety depth
35. What vessels can enter the separation zone of a TSS
36. You are on a CBD and a crossing vessel on your port bow is RAM, who has right of
way, and what rule does this come under
37. What rules apply in restricted visibility
38. How would you determine a safe speed
39. What rule doe that refer to
40. You hear a fog signal apparently forward of the beam, what action should you take
under rule 19
41. What flag will a vessel engaged in trawling display while shooting nets
42. Lights: CBD,
43. What is the arc of visibility of the 3 red lights on a PDV CBD
44. Lights: NUC making way
45. What are the fog signals for a vessel aground over 100m
46. Buoyage: preferred channel to port, IALA region A
47. Buoyage: emergency wreck marking buoy
48. Buoyage: isolated danger mark
49. Buoyage: heading north, east cardinal mark on port side and west cardinal mark on
your starboard side, action
50. Buoyed channel: IALA region B, port lateral mark, preferred channel to starboard,
starboard lateral mark

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