[esailor Team]

MCA Glasgow
Masters Unlimited
Examiner: Capt Tony Wilson
Candidate experience: Container
Time: 1 Hour 20 Mins (approx).

1. Lights and shapes (type, dimensions of all shapes, fog signals, duration of long blast and G flag how does it look like).
2. Buoyed Channel (name the buoy and side to pass).
3. Explain Rule 8 f to your cadet (with models).
4. Explain Rule 9 (with models).
5. Defination of Fishing Vessel, Vessel Constrained by her draft.
6. Preperations while expecting restricted visibility.
7. What was the procedures at your last ship ref to restricted visibility preperation?
8. What do you understand by Master’s standing orders?
9. ROR situations: You PDV in narrow channel another PDV crossing from Stbd.
10. Duty Offiocer calls you on the bridge (heavy traffic all around, say 15 models on the table) initial action. (slow down to get time for assesing the situation).
11. Radar Plot on the table using magnets (4 targets O, O’ and A plotted, you need to complete the plot using magnets, explain and action).
12. How does PSC target a ship, how can be a ship ban from UK?
13. What is Improvement Notice and Prohibition Notice?
14. What is your responsibility under ISM? What do you understand by review? What is Master’s Overriding Authority?
15. What are the certification for MLC?What is there in SEA? Who signs it? What if the contract is more than 365 days?
16. How to get ISSC, audit procedures and interval. What is SSP?
17. You found CSSEC is expired, will you sail? Company requesting to do it at next convenient port – what will you do?(Do not sail, this is not a piece of paper, all my equipments are related to it).
18. What are the certificates issued by MCA under ACS?
19. Berthing ship inside a basin wind 10 knots (BT available) : self used Anchor even BT is there.
20. After berthing AB injured while rigging gangway – action. He can not be relieved prior dep – action.
21. 2nd Officer calls you that he heard “MAYDAY” on VHF (nothing in GMDSS) – action.
22. Which search you will carry out for known datum. Draw search patterns on a piece of paper.
23.Later on you found a life raft in the water but wind and swell is there – how to rescue the raft?
24. New foreign Ch Off and British Motorman joining – docs to check. Does Ch Off require ECDIS certificate? Does Motorman require High Voltage certificate?

Be safe as always. Do not take any commercial pressure.

Group study helps a lot – you will come to know what you don’t know.

Best wishes. Thanks to all.

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