Jonathan GMA Candidate Examiner Mr Phillips 01/09/21 1Hour40Minutes
1. Tell me about your vessel
2. Tell me how you would take over the watch (check logbook and ORB)
3. What readings would you expect from logbook (exhaust temp, bearing temp, lubrication oil
temp/pressure etc) – Could not remember any due to complete blank
4. Draw a cross section of a 2-stroke engine and diagram (had to be perfect! Did not do very
well)
5. Departure procedure (1 hour notice & steering gear etc.)
6. Emergency generator and switch board (what emergency equipment is power by ESB)
7. Emergency fire pump
8. Enclose space entry
9. MARPOL
10. SOLAS
11. ISM (SMS & PMS)
12. Fire in ER
13. Scavenge space fire
14. IR test (mega test – very detailed including connections etc. did not go fantastically but got
most of it)
15. Operating OWS and 15PPM alarm
16. How does a OWS operate?
17. MSN, MGN, MIN
18. COWSP
19. Paralleling a generator
20. Fuel oil system (from bunker to injection)
21. Viscotherm (how it works and what temperature/viscosity)
22. Taking over watch
23. There was a lot. Just don’t do what I did and forget the basics. (Know your 2-stroke cross
section diagram and remember quantities like temp, pressure etc.)
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