MARDEP PAST YEAR QUESTION BY TOPIC ( UPDATED )

PASSAGE PLAN

1. Best of the best ( given two points with lat and long, plot berth to berth using good
seamanship passage planning practice. Make a full way point table with total distance,
distance to go, take into account all the buoys, depth safety, tides, current direction,
reporting area,reporting channel, anchorage area, emergency area, given 30-40 mins to
complete. All publication and setup are provided ) upon completion, explain all of your
works to him.
2. Passage plan- what to do before starting the passage plan?
3. publication used to make passage planning
4. Do passage plan from singapore to Hong Kong
5. What publication do you use to choose the best route ? explain each publication?
6. t n p different.how do you know which t n p still inforce
7. How do you update all of the publications required?
8. How to identify any danger when doing passage plan
9. calculate eta from p.klang to london
10. What is the abort point and point of no return?

CARGO WORK

● GENERAL
1. Explain about cargo pumps onboard
2. Emergency shut down system
3. Dry dock preparation.
4. Which plan does docking master wants to know for the positioning of blocks? What does
he do with the plan?
5. Pilot ladder maintenance and how you repair it if it is damaged
6. pilot ladder regulations and requirements
7. Flammability Diagram drawing ( rough sketch).
8. What safety precautions needs to be taken for connecting bonding wire/cable once
alongside?
9. What type of equipments to be used for checking tank atmosphere? In terms of O2 /
Hydrocarbon.
10. What is TLV ( STEL/Ceiling Limit)
11. - Principle of Explosimeter?
12. What is tlv,lel,uel. Is 99% lel ok?

● CONTAINER
1. 40 footers container considered as how many TEUs
2. Received IMDG container, what documents will be given to you? List all & its functions.
3. How to store IMDG containers.
 ● LNG
1. IG system,draw and explain
2. How you check IG’s O2 content on deck
3. What is yr LNG LEL & UEL? it is 100% LEL
4. From the sketch..he give statement " is it 5% concentration of HC = 5% of LEL? "
5. What is LEL? Clarify the statement.
6. Explain gas free operation onboard LNG Carrier? From last port of discharge.
7. Explain how you use flammability diagram for inerting.

● OIL TANKERS
1. Advantages and disadvantages of COW

● ENCLOSED SPACE
1. If o2 content 20% can you enter?
2. Minimum value for hydrogen sulphide, carbon monoxide
3. Enclosed space entry procedure
a. how & what gas we need to check?
b. level of H2S & Carbon Dioxide
4. Requirement for GAS measurements/ Concentration of gas safe for entry?Is it possible
to enter the tank with slight reding of HC?

● BULK CARRIER
1. Coal belong to which IMDG Class ( explain )
2. Loading of coal
3. Precautions to load coal - danger of coal, ignition and burning point of coal, how do you
ventilate coal?
4. cargo sweat,ventilate off..how bout for cargo that requires continuous flow of air?
5. bulk carrier code general regulation,angle repose
SHIP STABILITY

1. What is TPC
- does TPC change with draught & density?
2. IMO stability criteria. Explain and draw (Please make sure draw properly including details)
3. Intact stability criteria for cargo ships.
4. Give KM, KG & BM
5. Km,kb,kg given find GM. Minimum GM required and how to increase GM if GM is 0.1m
6. Given KM, KB, KG. We will get answers of negative GM only, so what caused negative
Gm? Action to bring GM to positive?
7. Load line survey preparation
8. As a chief officer your responsibilities regarding stability.
9. Explain BWM (Ballast Water Management) and its certificate.
10. Plimsoll mark draw and explain
11. Angle of LOL
12. FWA in relation to load line mark
13. Bulker load with grain, 1 cargo compartment caught on fire and using water for
fire fighting, how to maintain stability?
14. Calculate GM, he will give KM, GM and KB.
15. What is K, B, M and G (stability).
16. How to correct -GM?
17. Intact Stability as per IMO then intact stability for bulk carry grain. Draw and explain the
GZ curve (give each and every point).
18. Explain about ILC (International Loadline Certificate), how to calculate loadline (LKK
subject), draw plimsoll mark and explain what is inside plimsoll mark (thickness,
which side, how to calculate FWA and explain what is FWA and DWA)
19. Vessel sailed out and suddenly the master notified the ship listed to stbd 5°,
explain your action and how to counter the situation related to ship stability.
20. List ,angel of LOL and how to counteract this situation?
21. Your ship is fully loaded. How will you bring down ship’s G? (Liquid cargo no way of
cargo shifting).
22. How will you make sure you maintain the positive GM throughout? Formula for
calculating upthrust and virtual loss of GM.
23. How to calculate free surface correction?
24. Will your propeller be immersed during the arrival of the dry dock?
25. Can you enter the dock with even keel draft? If so, why to enter with trim while there is
a critical period of losing GM?
26. How do you determine your GM? What method do you use?
- KM ( How do your find your KM)
- KG ( How do you find your KG)
(He gave the situation that your ship with a draft of 7m)
So your captain requested to adjust KG but maintained KM at 7m draft. What is your
action?
27. How to know dock water density?
28. TPC (tonne per centimeter) change or not when load or discharge cargo at FW and SW
29. Unit for MCTC
30. KM 12m, KG 11.9m, BM 4m can this ship sail and why?
31. What are stiff and tender ships?
32. How to know TPC in any draft?
33. Static stability and dynamical stability.
34. Your ship listing at an open sea, what may have caused it?
35. Difference between heel and list.
36. What is FSE (free surface effect)? Explain and give scenarios of FSE.
37. When sailing from Labuan to Kemaman, you notice vessel trim 1° unexpectedly,
what are the causes?
38. What do you do as OOW (officer on watch) when notice this trim? (refer question no.37)

39. What are the sensors of a LOADICATOR?

40. Explain bending moment and shearing force
41. What to do if a ship cannot afloat?
42. How to find ship displacement at 7m draft?
43. Why loadline is different when density is same?
44. Draw plimsoll mark port side
45. How to maintain required GM?
46. Ship draft survey
47. DWA formula
48. How to get dock water density?
METEOROLOGY

1. Signs of approaching TRS (tropical revolving storm) and where you want the TRS to be
relative to your vessel?
2. Navigable and dangerous semi circle.
3. Explain TRS.
4. Wet & dry bulb thermometer - What is it and How to use it?
5. How to calibrate dry bulb & wet bulb?
6. Explain dew point , dew point table and NP100.
7. Equipment to determine dew point inside cargo space.
8. Whirling psychrometer.
9. How to forecast when a fog is coming using a hygrometer?
10. Draw the structure of TRS and explain
11. Purpose of relative humidity? (Cold and hot weather humidity and humidity percentage)
12. Purpose of wind direction? Explain true wind, apparent wind?
13. How do you find out wind veering or backing in your watch from the previous watch
keeper's log? (Example calculation)
14. Purpose of sea water temperature?
15. TRS direction, wind direction in North & South hemispheres?

16. How do you obtain weather information?

17. MNHW (mean neap high water) and MSHW (mean spring high water)

18. What is lower astronomical tide? Different name of lowest astronomical tide.
LSA & FFA

1) LSA items and its maintenance.

2) lifebuoy requirement.
3) since my ship have no lifeboat, what items should be carried?
4) vessel >150m, what LSA you expect to find?
5) marking on lifeboat.
6) marking on liferafts.
7) lifeboat lowering duties.
8) why forward liferaft has no HRU?
9) What was the LSA equipments onboard your last ship? Mention one by one with
details of no and location and requirements?
10) Why there is only one lifeboat if it’s stowed at stern but 2 lifeboats if stowed one the
ship’s side?
11) SOLAS pack A and pack B what is the difference?
12) How many life buoy? How many with self igniting light?
13) Your ship’s lifeboat designed to launch at maximum how many degree of list?
14) Do your rescue boat have immersion suit? If yes why to have immersion suit although
u have TPA in rescue boat?
15) release method of lif• How to cut liferaft painter line?eraft. (auto/manual)
16) How to release MOB marker
17) How u prepare for sfaety equipment survey.....then he twist this question several
way...what are the things u will check in life boat and life raft...does pilot ladder include in
safety equipment....What are shape u carried on board.What is Form E...where u will find
Safety equipment certificate..?He give me 10min to find copy of certificate?And start
asking again.....
18) If freeboard more 7m no embarkation ladder how you gonna board the liferaft
19) lifejacket requirement
20) why offshore vessel don’t have lifeboat
21) Last ship lsa and ffa requirement as per solas. (Before start mention the equipment
one by one, mention the carriage requirement first. And maintainance and quantity.)
22) Mob suddenly missing how to find.
23) Requirement for life boat
24) requirement for liferaft.
25) LSA and FFA requirements for container vessel.
26) SART (radar display, which radar can detect and what is the wavelength, battery
duration, diff between on,off and standby mode)
27) How to cut liferaft painter line?
28) Bowsing tackle
29) BA set ( how to don, what to check before donning, do we need to wear it when
entering enclosed space )
30) Requirement for isc, dimension.
31) How to use fire extinguisher
32) How do you do FFA maintenance onboard specifically maintenance (i included
latest 2018 requirement of walkie talkie) and others.
33) How will u know your CO2 cylinder is filled? 10% loss of total weight or weight of CO2?
34) How will pressurize fire main at dry dock? To draw the ISC. What will u do if the ISC is not
fitted?
35) FFA onboard RORO vsl, what are they, list all
36) Fireman outfit everything
37) Why axe in fireman outfit
38) Fireman outfit inspection
39) explain about emergency fire pump.
40) Duties as per muster list in all kinds of emergency drills.
41) all types of emergency alarm.
42) Explain where to look for PMS for LSA and FFA.
43) Content of fire wallet
PRACTICAL NAVIGATION

1. methods n how to fix ships posn

2. How many methods to find compass error & Why do we need to calculate compass
error?
3. compass error by Polaris
4. compass error calc (tvmdc)
5. Meridian passage calculations. Why use MP for position fix?
6. True Alt with reference to the declination and latitude during mer pass
7. HSA calculation
8. great circle sailing & Mercator Sailing
9. Sunrise calculations
10. Nautical & Civil twilight
11. To find compass error & deviation. ( given: Tr. Brg Polaris. Gyro bearing, gyro
heading and compass heading. Variation to take from chart).
12. calculate amplitude
13. calculate polaris
14. Compass error calculation for amplitude
15. polaris
16. usually what is the bearing of polaris?
17. how to get compass error using polaris without taking sight?
18. Terrestrial navigation, hsa vsa transit bearing,
19. Sextant principle & errors-explain all error
20. Sunrise and sunset time at port klang
21. Variation calculation from the chart
22. Explanation (my time and normal sunrise time 20mins difference )and then fail
23. explain all position fix
24. when can we take amplitude. Where is the position of the sun and explain why
25. simple calc( +-to find Gyro.E/C.E)
● WATCHKEEPING
1) Bring vessel to anchor, action?
2) watchkeeping at anchor.
3) Taking over watch (first day after sign on as oow, ONLY safety aspects)
4) safe nav watch (STCW)
5) watchkeeping at port.
6) Handing over and taking over watch
7) OOW, restricted visibility. actions?
8) Bridge watchkeeping
9) navigation at open sea.
10) navigation in coastal water.
11) navigation during pilotage.
12) OOW approaching pilot.
13) OOW approaching heavy weather.
14) OOW approaching RV.
15) handover & taking over watch at anchor.
16) hand over watch in RV.

● EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
1) You radar is kaput, then you see other vessel approaching. action?
2) vessel aground, action by OOW.
3) What are the two types of Vessel Aground?
4) if ship cannot afloat. action?
5) determine anchor dragging.
6) how to know anchor dragging? (you are at fwd)
7) anchor dragging. OOW, action?
8) steering gear failure. action?
9) vessel still at anchor, pilot station call ETA in 3 hours time; your actions alone, Master
in the toilet.
10) MOB. action by OOW?
11) What is OOW duties?
12) If oil spill on deck. Actions?
13) Oil spill on deck. As C/O, actions?
14) your ship listing 1 degree. why? actions?
15) You are chief officer get information that after 2hrs POB as chief mate what is your action?
16) Heavy weather. As C/O , actions?
17) If during bunkering then have spill. Actions ?
18) You received distress signal through VHF DSC ch.70. action how would u
acknowledge if no acknowledgment from shore.
19) Duty of On Scene Command.
20) Fire fighting at dry dock. Fire in paint store. action?
21) As 2nd mate, your ship involve in collision while you are going from Malaysia to UK.
Action?
22) fire in engine room. OOW, actions?
23) abandon ship drill. as officer, actions?
24) Fire drill, explain how you do fire drill
25) Cargo ops pipeline burst what your action?
26) when u use radar fix.at open sea ur GPS kaput only u and another pdv by using radar
 fix can u get determined the posn.
27) Power Failure,What is your action?
28) Gyro failure. OOW, action?

● SEAMANSHIP
29) How to know pilot ladder 1 metre above wl.
30) draw pilot ladder and explain with dimensions
31) how do you rig pilot ladder
-draw pilot ladder,showing important fittings, measurements etc
- how to check height req. by pilot station above water level (using head leadline/using the
steps of the ladder.
32) Precautions during disembarkation of pilot
33) your ship listing, why
34) In charge officer at fwd station during anchor operation.
35) How to calculate swinging circle
36) how to prepare anchor for let go
37) how u know anchor is biting on the ground.
38) Letting go anchor 5 shackles port anchor how you do?
39) How do you test the brakes?
40) Markings on anchor
41) How you know its already 5 shackles if anchor going down too fast?
42) How does the anchor flukes penetrate the seabed when you walk back the anchor
under power?
43) Stock and stockless anchor? Which one has higher holding power? Stowage?
44) What is the diff of stockless and stock anchor
45) what are the advantages and disadvantages of stock anchor
46) Which one is the fluke of the anchor?
47) Chief officer proceeding for anchor, how to prepare for anchoring from A to Z and explain
why and how u decide each anchor to be used??, Calculate swing circle in meter and
how many cable u will let go ur anchor?? Calculate min dist between ur ship and other
ship
48) BGT (in details)
49) steering gear test.
50) GT, NT & displacement. How to find ship disp at 7m draft
51) Squat formula and effect on vessel
52) squat effect. The safe UKC to compensate for the effect of squat. Which convention to
refer?
53) ukc definition,nett ukc definition
54) How to reduce squat
55) responsibility of co for ukc
56) How to muster your steering AB to bridge?
57) When to call the master? what to do before we take any action to avoid collision?
58) Can we navigate/sail without any charts?
59) enclosed space entry (procedure & equipment to be carried)
60) enclose space permit n duration
61) gases detected n limits of the gases prior entering
62) AB going to enter fore peak tank alone. You as an oow from bridge observe this. Action.
How to contact him as he has no walkie talkie. What is the proper enclosed space entry
 method.
63) If you want to raise security level more than the port security level. What are the
procedures? Who will you contact?
64) What if the port does not agree to increase the security level, provided that both vessel
and the port should be at the same security level?
65) Joining as chief officer from shore to sea. (all i explained including SEA etc and
explain what do you do on safety familiarization)
66) When do you know you're officially C/O onboard?
67) how do you do familiarisation new joiners?
68) New 2/0 sign on. what you do?
69) new AB sign on . What you do?
70) How do you prepare for departure port? (Tell all including checklist and rest etc stowaway
checks isps etc etc talk a lot so less questions and also additional he asked for tanker)
71) Preparation for dry dock.
72) where to refer location of bottom scupper plug for dry dock?
73) During drydock, how to make sure the block doesn't cover the bottom scupper
74) watertight / weathertight how you check integrity and maintenance.
75) Meaning of ship detained and ship arrested.
76) capacity plan n ga plan
77) Ship hull found dented, which plan should refer (no & name of the plan).
78) Draw and explain why port anchor use in North and for South stbd anchor.
79) Squat deep water and shallow
80) Stopping n turning shallow and deep water.
81) Turning circle ability in shallow n deep water
82) How do u train junior officer onboard?
83) For Audit, how do you prepare as C/O?
84) How do you attain weather information?
85) IAMSAR manual search pattern. Draw expanded square search, sector search, contour
search.
86) If the guy incharge for lowering the lifeboat want to enter already what you will do?
87) How you Maintain Ballast water OB?
88) During heavy lift operation your walkie talkies broken no spare how you communicate
with crane operator? How do you maintain stability during operation?
89) how to get dock water density?
90) preparation for bunkering.
91) Who will sound the bell at forward?
92) Williamson turn, single turn, scharnow turn.
93) What engineers are doing during SBE?
94) Category of the dangerous cargo
95) Danger of having accommodation at fore part of the vsl.
96) Precaution loading heavy weight.
97) precautions for heavy weather
98) Using of fire wire
99) Moorings Arrangements
100) First time onboard as 3/O
101) What documents to be handed over to Master
102) Differences between damage control plan and shell expansion plan.
103) Wilden pump, sketch and explain?
 104) auto pilot to manual steering vice versa
105) Draw loadline n where u can find at which region u can use what loadline.
106) Difference between sog and stw.
107) explain cargo ops on container law hydrometer and explain how it works
108) What is wind veering and backing
109) How do you manoever to a Navigable SemiCircle from a position of Dangerous
SemiCircle
110) How do you take sea water temperature? Ans - Engine room.
111) Where and how do the Engineers take SW temperature?
112) Next port your LSA will be surveyed and checked by an authority, how and what
to prepare before port entry.
113) Muster list and its content. What are the duties?
114) How to get position when GPS kaput at middle of sea & if near the shore?
115) maneuvering characteristics

GMDSS

1. How many types of messages can be sent?; distress, urgency, safety, routine.. How to
send urgency message?
2. How to contact other vessel without VHF?
3. EPIRB (three types, operating capacity, maintenance etc)
4. Sart (same as above just tell all u know)
5. At what range a SART can be detected?
6. Gmdss equipments onboard and requirements?
7. Radio watch, (gmdss equipment channel to maintain)
8. How to do test on Gmdss equipment daily, weekly, monthly?
9. How to contact other MISC ship without other ship knowing it?
10. What frequency on walkie talkie we are using?
11. How to maintain radio watch?
12. GMDSS areas and equipments details.?
13. How to acknowledge the distress signal?
14. What will happen if you acknowledge the distress signal?
15. how does DGPS works?
16. Explain HDOP?
17. Diff between LRIT and AIS and its requirements?
 18. GMDSS Equipment
19. Sea area A1,2,3 & 4 - international definition of A4?
20. MOB, urgency msg using RT.
21. How do you find a Solas Training Manual in the GA plan (What symbol)
22. GMDSS Equipment, explains
23. MOB, urgency msg using RT
24.
on🔥 Broadcast a distress message using VHF radiotelephony. Your ship engine is

25. gmdss- all mf n hf distress frequencies

26. how to send distress msg(vsl on fire) , RT n DSC method
27. what is recorded in radio log book
28. procedure transmit dsc
29. As 2nd mate your ship involve in collision while you are going from Malaysia to UK:
30. what is your action?
31. How you will send distress?
32. List all distress frequency?
33. What equipment you will send distress according to your area?
34. List all area and equipments?
35. How you will send distress?
36. List all distress frequency?
37. What equipment you will send distress according to your area?
38. List all area and equipments?
39. GMDSS test. Explain.
40. How to send urgency msg
41. Explain NAVTEX,what are the frequencies being used?

PUBLICATION

1. ALRS vol.
2. ALL for what
3. How To correct chart, alrs, all
4. What you can find in cummulative ntm
5. How you know you have latest edition of chart if company dont provide commulative ntm
6. List 15 publication 3rd officer mostly use, explain each publications
7. Notice to mariners ( explain breifly, period issue, contain, application)
8. SOLAS ( list contain, why solas in force)
9. Admiralty List of Radio Signal ( list, contain, explain )
10. Publications onboard
11. what is pilot book and asd why got two names
ROR

1. Explain rule 19
2. Visibility of light, minimum range for
>50m
3. Pdv vessel seen from port right ahead
of you.Action.
4. Nuc light and action to take.
5. Quote rule 1-19
6. NUC definition and light
7. NUC, CBD, RAM, Vessel aground (lights and fog signal)
8. 4 masthead Light and sidelights what vessel?
9. Masthead Lights and Sidelights characteristics
10. Crossing Situation what's my actions
11. Lights and shapes (Ram, Nuc, Aground all with length)
12. Colregs 7,8,9,10,13 word by word , 19,22 explain
13. What is Colreg? What year?
14. Which part and what are the rules that have application in it? (Eg rule 4, 11 etc) and
what does it tells you?
15. Pilot vessel characteristic and action when sight 2 point on port bow
16. Vessel aground daylight, night, fog signal.
17. How do you determine safe speed?
18. How to determine risk of collision?
19. Action in restricted visibilty + what does 'navigating in or near an area of restricted
visibility’
20. Action when we are the give way vessel + action when we are the stand on vessel
21. Rules only NUC the lights how many possibilities. He gave me 2 red lights and 2
white lights which can be seen from starboard (please answer all including arc of
visibility. And shape and sound signal)
22. Lights for towing ,fishing vessel.
23. Light for PDV less than 50 m.
24. Shapes and lights for dredging vessel. Fog signal.
25. The sections of ROR Part B.
26. PDV full details and action to avoid.
27. Fishing vessel full detail and anchor light n signal
28. 1 forward light , 1 masthead light , 1 redlight . What ship ?
29. PDV from 2 point starboard bow . Action ? 1 point equals how many degree ?
30. How to do lookout ? What is meant by lookout ? (Rule 5)
31. Distress signal as per annex 4.
32. He gives 3 situations with 3 bearing of each target.Determine ROC exist or not?
33. Visibility and range of light
34. Vessel engaged on pilotage duty
35. Any other Possibility ? ( WHITE OVER RED + ONE WHITE LIGHT)
36. Is it PDV?Signal pilot boat at anchor? Is it compulsory HOTEL flag to be hoist up? Please
prove in COLREG if any? Identity signal?
37. Lights and sound signal for vessel engaged in trawling
38. Towing vessel length of tow less 200 m seen from port bow signals lights what your action
39. Which rule states cannot alter to port?
40. Towing vsl length of tow more than 200m what fog
signal.
41. Vessel doing underwater operation light describe.He gives me light of Ram vessel
seeing from Port side with two green all-round light.what is this?Sound signal right
ahead action.
42. Vessel entering restricted visibility what precaution u take as a chief officer,what is
restricted visibility.
43. Speed reduction gradually or at a short.If it is gradually then does it contradict with
44. Light n shape.(pdv 50m n more, towing seen from ahead,fishing vessel other than
trawling seen from ahead)
45. Action in crossing situation.You are in narrow channel and it is restricted visibility you
want to overtake the vessel ahead.Explain what fog signal you sound clear when clear
visibility in narrow channel you want to overtake at starboard you sound the fog signal
the vessel ahead don't want you to overtake what signal she sound.
46. Definition Rule 3 – RAM.
47. Rule 8 f
48. Lights - RAM vessel seen from port side, 2 points on your port bow, action?
49. Safe navigation at sea.
50. Light pilot vessel from astern.
51. Rule 5,6,7,8,15,16,17 if can word by word, he won't ask question anymore
52. Vessel engage in fishing and one all round white light-what is the possibility-fog
signal-daytime signal.
53. Vessel engaged in fishing 2 points at your starboard bow.
54. Ror (towing /action)Buoy region B action.
55. NUC situation and action
56. Quote rule 17,18,Anex 1-Everything in it.
57. Lights & Shapes-give a few aspects.
58. Diameter of lights.
59. Identify lights - NUC and trawler + sound signals in Restricted Visibility
60. List rule under section 1 part B
61. Light and fog signal: what type of ship? What is the specification as per annexes?
What action you will take
62. WIG and sea plan fully understanding the different when to comply and which rules are
applicable?
63. Distress signal annex 4.
64. Light and shape.
65. Quote rule 1, 7, 39, 40, 41 , annexes in ROR
66. What is your action based on your rule 19?
67. What is your action if target not taking action?
68. Vessel CBD crossing TSS ,you are on pdv action?
69. What are the precaution you do when entering into restricted visibility
70. Rule 5,6,9,10 word by word towing and nuc light .What is rule 39,40,41
71. Situation pdv and towing
72. Rule 19 explain and apply action base on plotting
73. Vessel cbd action to take u see her in open sea
74. CBD, lights, action
75. Towing vessel light and NUC not making way. Day light signal.
76. Two vessels crossing distance 5 NM. (I’m the give a way vessel). Action.
77. Define underway and making way.
78. Nuc underway and anchor
79. Anchor fog signal
80. Pilot vessel anchor & underway.
81. Pilot vessel 2 point on port bow .
82. Fishing,vessel less than 20 meters lights.
83. Crossing situation.Another vessel on port bow not taking any action.
84. How many rules, what is rules 39,40,41.
85. PDV port light, 2 masthead light can be seen from 2point port bow . Explain situation and
action.
86. List all 4 annex and explain all annex.
87. TSS actions.
88. You observe a vessel NUC right ahead seen from port side in open sea. What is your
action?
89. What are all the fog signals you know?
90. Light (PDV more then 50m seen from port)
91. PDV 2 pt on stbd bow, how do you know risk collision exist without using radar (and he
shows me some time and bearing of vessel and decide either risk collision exist or not)
and action
92. Fog signal of PDV making way and not making way
93. Pilot vessel ahead of you (view from astern) What is your action? (This one he showed
light.
BUOY

1. IALA buoy.Describe.
2. Ask me about North Cardinal Mark bouy and action to take.
3. 270 deg, West cardinal mark
4. Port hand Region B characteristic and action when sighted right ahead
5. North cardinal mark, heading 090°, actions?
6. Difference between Q & VQ flashing
7. What is the purpose of the cardinal mark?
8. Buoy safe water mark and port hand buoy region Bravo where will you leave you decide
(must tell i will follow direction of buoyage)
9. East cardinal mark without top mark( identity by colour).
10. East Cardinal buoy with West cardinal mark top mark?
11. Buoy cardinal and lateral
12. Bouy port hand lateral mark details
13. Bouy safe water mark details
14. Stbd Lateral mark region B
15. West cardinal buoy seen right ahead heading 180. action?
16. Port hand buoy reg B . Ship see port hand buoy region B ahead where to alter
course. Can u see port hand buoy on your starboard side during manouevering ?
17. Can isophase ,occulting be in lateral mark ? Why ?
18. East cardinal mark
19. Ship heading 090°. Ahead see South cardinal mark . Action ?
20. South cardinal mark
21. Port hand lateral mark(Region B), isolated danger mark, east cardinal mark
22. Safe water mark buoy describes use.What is Morse code A .How to identify , where to
leave the buoy?
23. Isolated danger mark buoy use and describe where to leave the buoy.
24. North cardinal mark describe ...course 090 right ahead action.
25. Buoy-(all) 10 points of special mark
26. Special mark and prefered channel region
27. Action when sight prefered channel
28. Port hand lateral mark region B
29. South cardinal mark.you are from 270, you find that your ahead have a south cardinal
mark.What is your action?
30. What is isophase, occulting?
31. Safe water mark - 1 long flash every 10 seconds - what is the duration of the one
long flash ( don't confuse long flash with long blast - different)
32. Starboard hand lateral mark region B
33. IALA buoyage ( differences in area and buoys)
34. Pick which one is Region A Prefered channel to Stbd, Region B preferred to port
and west cardinal mark.
35. Course is 180 and you see a West mark ahead.Action.
36. Buoy- preferred channel,safewater mark,hand buoy
37. IALA buoyage ( west cardinal, isolated danger , special mark , emergency wreck ,
safe water mark)
38. IALA BUOY ( safe water,west cardinal,isolated & special mark) - characteristics + action
 39. Region a and region b difference (iala buoyage)
40. Buoys (just tell everything)
41. Buoys all prefered channels and some east and west cardinals
42. All buoys one after another.
43. You see a special buoy right ahead action. ( Happens to be uncharted and not in
Admiralty Sailing Direction, Inform master and slow down speed)
44. Buoy asked about starboard lateral mark region B.
45. Purpose of buoy, if you see this where will you keep.
46. Special mark purpose.
47. IALA BUOY ( safe wtr,west cardinal,isolated & special mark) - characteristics + action
48. Differentiate buoy region A and B
49. Can Lateral marks have Quick Flashing light? (Yes) How?
50. Safe water buoy light ‘A’ how long is short flash and how long is long flash

FLAG & MORSE CODE

1. Flag Bravo meaning and when to hoist.

2. What is mean by the Yankee flag ?
3. Bunkering.What flag displayed ?
4. Why Quebec flag is very important
5. Flag, Quebec meaning, November meaning, charlie meaning, ‘NC’ meaning and morse
code
6. What is the function of flag and morse code?
7. What flag do you raise when you have a pilot onboard?
8. What flag do you raise when engaged in pair trawling?
9. What flag do you raise when you are not making way?
10.What flag do you raise when you are dragging an anchor?
OTHERS

1. How to do radar plotting with a full report.

2. Explain OAW Triangle in radar plotting
3. From your plotting, take action if risk of collision exists .
4. What is VTS / VTIS
5. UKC calculation
6. What are the certificates to carry onboard
7. What is sounding and ullage
8. SMS manual
9. Draw a load line diagram
10. Why have different zone(tropical,summer,winter)
11. Pilot Master information exchange (Pilot card)
12. What is a muster list? Content
13. Type of alarms onboard
14. What is stopping distance
15. Why different load lines if the density is the same.
16. What is the anniversary date in the annual survey? Can it be different from the date of
issue of the certificate?
17. Cargo safety equipment survey. What are the preparations?
18. Where will you get the info about the number of strands on your crane?
19. How many parts of a chain register?
20. What type of maintenance work is done on deck? How will you do maintenance on the
loading crane? When to change the fall wire? How do you know this is the time to change
the fall wire? How will you make sure that there is wearing and tearing on 10% of
strands? How will you visually check the condition of crane wire as it is covered with
grease? What is the length of your crane wire onboard the last ship?
21. Crane’s sheave is broken. You don’t have any spare onboard. What are the criteria to
determine whether you may use the different sizes of sheave?
22. What is the difference between seafarer employment article ( SEA) and article of
agreement ( AOA)?
23. What do you prepare for a prior departure port as chief officer? ( Once i mentioned
stability aspect he ask further deeper...as below )
24. What maintenance carried out for ballast tank
25. Explain in dry dock how you remove your mud/sediment?
26. how do you rig a pilot ladder
27. how long is the spreader
28. how many rubber steps are there in a pilot ladder
29. He wants to know exact loa, gross tonnage, net tonnage and tpc.
30. what is diff between port state and flag state
31. First time joining as a second mate. Tell me what will you do from the gangway
32. Relieve 3rd mate
33. Items you write down in a Watch log book?
34. Detained items means and what are they?
35. How many Diesel Generators does your ship have ?
EQUIPMENT

1. RADAR what is, errors, requirements, performance test ,limitation and meaning of
Radar?
2. Types of radar,carriage req,how to operate
3. Radar errors and IMO standards?
4. Bearing and range discrimination in radar?
5. Ais principle, req, limitation?
6. Sextant principle and errors?
7. Ecdis carriage requirement and details?
8. Diff between gps and dgps?
9. How to correct chronometer?
10. Cospas sarsat Epirb and Inmarsat Epirb difference?
11. What is Catzoc (Ecdis)?
12. Ecdis how to update
- carriage requirements
13. Gyro & Magnetic Compass (fundamental n maintenance)
14. Gyro- seeking t.north by rotating gyroscope, create inertia seeking t.north ,
15. How to start a gyro?
16. What is Magnetic deviation and variation?
17. Maintenance of Magnetic compass? -No air bubble, fill up alcohol, mgtc cmpss
away metal , large alteration of course calculate compass error
18. How to get gyro error?
19. Radar - parallel indexing, how do you use it?
20. Performance test radar how,when to do & why u do?
21. Magnetic compass carriage requirement?
22. What are non adjustable and adjustable errors of sextant?
23. How to correct these Sextant errors?
24. What is the ECDIS performance as per resolution?
25. What are the equipments connected to ECDIS ?
26. Which convention is related to radar?
27. Difference between x and s band radar?
28. Disadvantages of x band?
29. ECDIS electronic charts
30. ECDIS carriage reqs
31. Explain about types of compasses on-board. How Gyro works.
32. How to get gyro error and what is the meaning of High and Low.
33. What is S-57 in ECDIS?
34. Limitations of ECDIS?
35. Explain Target Swap In Radar?
36. Difference between RCDS AND ECS?
37. Difference between S-57 & S-61?
38. What is dual fuel system in ECDIS?
39. What are the informations you log on a course recorder?
40. Difference between TMC and Fluskgate compass?
41. When do you log Echo Sounder? At Open Sea do you log
SOLAS

1. Requirements for magnetic compass n radar

2. Explain solas all chapters, part A and B
3. Solas chapter 13
4. What is solas?
5. How many chapters in SOLAS ? List down all the chapters & Which code lies in
what chapter?
6. Requirements for EDG
7. Chap 2-2, What does the code on bulkhead or door means ? eg.A60
MARPOL

1. List all annexes

2. Explain briefly about all annexes
3. What is chemical type 1,2,3
4. Your 3/E call from ER want to discharge bilges, then what you need to do, and
discharge requirements for oil in machinery spaces
5. MARPOL certificates (annual,summary,initial,etc)
6. Marpol annex 5 new requirements
7. Marpol annex 1 asked how much quantity can be discharged through ODMCS if your
ship is carrying 60000 m3.
8. Marpol annex 5, bosun want to throw garbage overboard ? Explain garbage
management plan requirement
9. Equipments under annex 1 in details
10. means of 15ppm as required when pump thru ODME
11. Ballast water management plan. How will you do ballast water exchange? What was the
approved method for BWE on your last ship? How to do a sequential method. How many
types of BW treatment plants.
12. Oil record book ( requirements, contain)
13. special area for all annexes
14. Purpose of slop tanks.
15. Discharge criteria as per annex marpol 2.
16. Can I discharge in the area and what regulations and publications would I consult
17. Discharge of residues of Category X.Y & Z
18. What is SECA Area and NECA Area
19. Explain the other gases which pollutes the environment other than SOx & NOx
20. What is the management plan involved in MARPOL Annex 6?Explain abt it.
21. Structures of Garbage Management Plan
22. Sewage Treatment Plan
23. Structures of SOPEP(4 Structures) ,What to report and whom to report?
24. STS operation according to MARPOL Annex 1,Which Regulation?
25. List out all the certificates involved in MARPO
CHART

1. What is DR, EP & other symbols for fix

2. Purpose of scale chart
3. Chart details
4. New edition / New chart
5. types of chart,green,blue,white zone,types of wreck,how to update
6. Explain the chart on the table & its scale.
7. Calculate variation
8. Chart symbol
9. How to update chart? What is notices to mariner?
10. How to calculate HSA and how to obtain a fix?
11. How to determine sp tide or np tide on chart
12. What year chart on his desk was publish
13. How you know chart is corrected up to latest
14. How you know latest edition of chart
15. Type of chart, diff in large n small scale explain
16. How to get compass error from HSA?
17. MNHW MSHW
18. How to use gnomonic chart how to do great circle sailing on that
19. type of chart,explain about it.
20. colour on the chart.symbol on chart.ur vessel 5m draft it is anchor at a place of 4.5m
having low tide of 2m. Calculate Ukc.
21. what is depth measure from where.what is lowest astronomical tide,different name of
lowest astronomical tide.
22. Synoptic chart - how to know where the warm and cold front travel? Symbols on the
synoptic chart
23. How to read synoptic chart?
24. parallel indexing
25. mob
26. Chart symbol , chart correction
27. He showed me wrecks and asked what it meant
28. how to do running fix and where? What is purpose
29. What's the narrowest area in Singapore and Malacca straits
30. How to fix position-all method & explain
31. Everything about chart (dying height number , ebbing and flooding current)
32. Difference between gnomonic chart and mercator chart
33. First find port kelang position(nories)
34. How to know if chart can be used for navigation purpose.
35. Chart symbol what color
36. Definition of charted depth and lowest astronomical tide
37. chart on table can use or not if yes y if no y.
38. routing chart,what information u can get.which place it cover.
39. which publication got show symbol n abbreviation for ecdis
40. Chart and publications, how to check if updated and where to get details.
41. Explain about the chart on the table and identify the symbols. Which book to find
the chart symbol details.
42. Why does Variation change annually?Why does it have annual corrections?
IMO CODE

1. ISPS what is, what is the certificate needed.

2. What is the difference between DPA and CSO; under which code.
3. Declaration of Security
4. ISPS drills and SSAS requirement and test
5. security level in isps
6. security in SOLAS what chapter
7. STCW
8. Stcw 2010 manilla
9. Work and rest hour
10. List Imo convention
11. What is stcw convention, what is stcw code, how many parts in the stcw code, what is
solas, what are the chapters in solas
12. What is the anniversary date in the annual survey? Can it be different from the date of
issue of the certificate?
13. watchkeeping
14. MLC
15. Manning agent take money from seafarers is it legal or illegal explain as per MLC What is
AOA & SEA
16. MLC surveys
17. MLC/ DMLC
18. Structure of MLC
19. IOPP
20. IMDG
21. IMDG 9 parts name
22. Publication: iamsar
23. ISM
24. Explain ISM
25. what is DP
26. Talk about SMS manual onboard