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Date: – 19th July 2019 Class 1 Unlimited Orals
First started to check my document? He asked what vessel you have sailed on recently? I said Tugs.
Do you know it’s an unlimited certificate? Yes
Than he gave me an electric drawing of the electric starting gear of a sea water cooling pump, and before leaving the room he said when I come back I want you tell me all you can about the drawing.
Joining a vessel, 1st time on vessel, 1st time with company, handover will be very short; you passed security checks and see this. And he gave a photo of a cracked open vent in the bunker station or tray.
What are your thoughts? I said breach of Loadline, SMS issues, will ask outgoing chief why?
That vent is from the crankcase if DG3 what are your thoughts? I said block vent, too much venting from the crankcase.
Than a photo of the side of a medium speed engine showing relieve valves, full with oil going down from everywhere. Again what can you tell me? Primary explosion, lack of maintenance,
Will you start this? No. You need to sail? I said its DG3 so should be able run on the other 2, and you always should have a back up.
What will you do? Check what happened, inform necessary parties if required Class, Flag, Company. And start taking action to repair.
It boils down on the planned maintenance it says overhaul every 250,000hours?
I said there us surely a mistake, check makers specs, do revision if planned maintenance, check other maintenance schedules if they are correct, and also for other equipment.
So, you preparing for sailing and the 2nd comes to inform you that there is water leaking from a turbocharger? What do you do?
I said first check if its jacket or feed water. How? Jacket water, expansion tank, analysis of water, wanted differences in analysis.
Ok its feed water? And captain is ringing we need to sail. I said blank economiser, and inform captain that we might have some excess consumption. Also some sparks might be coming out of the funnel.
Ok. The trip ahead is quite long, so company decides we are going on anchor to make the necessary repair. I answered usual talks and PPE stuff, and then plug the tubes. He said do you have plugs onboard? And I replied you should and he was happy with that.
How to calculate bunker required? How much extra will you order?
Drydocking? What to look for in drydock?
You remove the rudder plug and find water? What do you do? Pressure test, to check for leaks etc
What other test you do on the rudder? Jumping clearance, pintel etc
What about CO2? How do you make sure it’s not released in drydock as people are working?
Then he said you passed.
Throughout the exam, particularly in the economiser question I felt that he was putting a lot of pressure on me presumably to check for decision making ability.

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