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Nick Wilson Chiefs Unlimited 26.10.20 Neaz Haider Passed

Chief engineer of a new vessel. Explain what you would do.
Explain what documents you would look at and what certificates.
He wanted to know what documents were stamped by class.
He wanted to know about IEEC, SEEMP,
Went on to Condition of Class and Memoranda of class. He was not happy at all with my examples of a WTD for COC and New ballast regs for MOD. He wanted more examples. Easy to think of now, but nothing was popping in my head at the time. Got there eventually though.
Spoke about a grounding and what your actions would be. For some reason he still was not happy about getting a CoC etc for this. Not sure what he was specifically after with regard to the CoC and MoC. My advice is to have a few examples ready.
He wanted the regs for SOx and NOx. Explain about the tech file and what components affect the NOx. He wanted the components listed. Spoke about the log you keep when you make changes etc Spoke a bit about the FO change over log
Went through condition monitoring of tail shaft. What we are after and which condition monitoring we would do.
Fire systems. Asked about FM200, asked about water mist. Nothing on CO2 except for mentioning it as a medium.
Went through a leaking tube on a boiler and how we would repair it.
Spoke about bow inspection in dry dock. Hes very heavy on the construction side of things. He showed a section through the front of the vessel and wanted 8 points labelled. I struggled here and thought I had stuffed it. But he pulled me through. Phew
He asked about pintle clearances on rudder and what they are for. He told me that you are about to sail and you’ve done final check but found your pintle clearances are out. Company isn’t bothered and they want you to sail. What would you do?
Said I was going to be drydocking in USA. Went through whole procedure of what to do etc and then realised he was leading to the fact that USA are 110v and he wanted to know what I would ask for to be able to dry dock there. Asked for transformer to bring their voltage up. This was my only electrical question.
Asked about indicator diagrams and why we take them. Showed only 1 fault on an out of phase card and asked what was wrong. It clearly showed late injection.
Went through what I would show if there was an ISM audit. Certs, Logs, Drill records, Checklists etc.
Said I was about to sail but my engineer has gone sick and we are now under our safe manning. I was a little stumped here. Obvious now, but he wanted to say that I would get a dispensation from Flag to be able to sail. I said CoC first but he stated that minimum manning was a flag thing.
Went through complaint procedure. Eventually he wanted me to say I would go to the MCA, even though I said ‘go to flag’ numerous times.*

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