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Oral Examination Checklist (aide memoire)

Seafarer ID       Date and Time      

Name       Exam location      

Duration       Examiner      

Certificate
      Result      
Type

Certificate
      Purpose      
Capacity

Management and shipmaster’s business BRM principles / MRM principles ☐ Knowledge of loading / ballasting ☐
techniques to reduce stress
Certification/endorsements for ships ☐ Fitness for duty ☐
officers Load line diagram & submerging the load ☐
Maintaining a proper lookout ☐ line
Classification societies, who / what are ☐
they / functions Maintaining an anchor watch ☐ Movement of 'G' with movement of ☐
weights
Conditions of assignment of LL / loadline ☐ Navigation in restricted visibility / ☐
rules congested waters Reading draft marks ☐
Division of responsibilities between ☐ Navigation with a pilot on-board ☐ Seasonal zones ☐
class, flag state and port state
Performing the navigational watch / ☐ Stability definitions ☐
Enhanced survey programme / condition ☐ Position fixing / Use of charts / Use of
evaluation reports equipment Tank-top loadings ☐
Frequency of statutory musters and drills ☐ Taking over the watch / handing over the ☐ Damage stability ☐
watch
How international codes and conventions ☐
are enacted into Australian law Voyage planning ☐
Navigation-charts and publications
ISM code / objectives / DP / position ☐ Watch-keeping Records / night orders / ☐
descriptions standing orders Altitudes / meridian passage ☐
ISPS code - requirements for ship / ☐ Watch-keeping arrangements ☐ Chart corrections / symbols / ☐
cybersecurity abbreviations

International conventions / MARPOL and ☐ Gyro / magnetic compass errors / ☐

MLC and DMLC Part I & II ☐ AIS precautions / BNWAS / VDR ☐ Interpretation and use of information ☐
contained on charts
Nav Act / marine orders / marine notices ☐ ARPA use and precautions ☐
Large and small-scale charts / routeing ☐
OH&S legislation / purpose of act / PIN / ☐ ECDIS use and precautions ☐ charts
prohibition notices / safety meetings /
duty of care / psychological wellbeing /
Emergency steering procedures ☐ Notice to mariners ☐
drydocking issues RADAR types / presentation / setting up ☐ Navigation warnings / EGC / MSI ☐
of RADAR / testing / precautions
Official logbook entries ☐ Ship reporting systems ☐
Testing of bridge equipment ☐
P&I / certificate of entry / validity ☐ Tidal calculations / chart datum ☐
Use of 'S' band 10-cm and 'X' band 3-cm ☐
SOLAS & Australian requirements to ☐ radar Various methods of obtaining compass ☐
report deficiencies / accidents / damage errors
Ships records, GRB, ORB, approved ☐ Various methods of obtaining position ☐
stability information Stress and stability lines
Statutory certificates, attachments, ☐ Effect of density on draft ☐ Cargo work
validity, expired certificates
FWA / DWA calculation ☐ Ship - shore checklist / bulk cargo ☐
Taking over command or joining ship as ☐ publications
Master / hand over / responsibilities and Free surface effect / angle of loll ☐
duties / authority of Master Bulk cargo loading requirements / ☐
IMO minimum stability criteria ☐ shippers declaration
Types of charters / carriage of goods by ☐
sea Knowledge and use of shipboard stability ☐ Cargo handling equipment / MO32 issues ☐
information / use and testing of loading
Types of surveys / preparation / B survey ☐ instrument Cargo securing / cargo securing manual ☐
report file / conditions of Class
Knowledge of different types of ☐ Confined space entry / precautions / gas ☐
Standards of watchkeeping shipboard stresses / shear force /
bending moments

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monitoring equipment / drills anchorage / anchoring in adverse Being taken in tow / use of emergency ☐
weather / dragging anchor towing equipment
Failure of cargo gear / heavy lift ☐
precautions Preparations for heavy weather / ☐
handling a vessel in adverse weather
IMDG Code / documentation / dangerous ☐ Distress / urgency / safety messages ☐
conditions
goods - segregation and marking / DOC
Helicopter procedures ☐
Reversible and CPP propellers / bow ☐
Issues relating to bridge visibility ☐ thrusters MOB / rescue of persons in water ☐
Loading and discharging precautions ☐ Ship & tug interaction / safety of tug ☐ Masters obligation to render assistance ☐
Loading bulk cargoes including the ☐ Ship squat / factors affecting squat / ☐ Means of controlling fire / flooding on ☐
loading of high-density cargoes UKC / bank effect / interaction board ship
Maintaining cargo watch / maintaining ☐ Turning ship short round / transverse ☐ Onset of heavy weather / TRS / ☐
records thrust / use of anchor for manoeuvring avoidance of TRS
Special types of cargoes and cargo ☐ Principles of damage control ☐
vessels e.g. livestock
Prevention of pollution Response to emergency in port ☐
Statutory requirements / testing and ☐
inspection of equipment / records Action to be taken in event of a pollution ☐
incident
Tanker operations / tanker definitions / ☐ Dry docking
Inert gas / tanker publications Action to be taken to prevent pollution ☐
Preparations for docking and stability ☐
Applicable Australian legislation ☐ issues
Ship handling Garbage Management Plan / Garbage ☐ Procedure prior to leaving dock ☐
Record Book
Effect of UKC on ship's manoeuvrability ☐
Precautions while bunkering ☐
Effect of wave impact on vessels ☐ Types of docks ☐
structure SOPEP / MARPOL & Annexes ☐
Embarking / disembarking pilot ☐
Dangers of synchronous and parametric Emergency situations / response and Search and rescue
rolling equipment
Communications ☐
Launching rescue/survival craft in ☐ Action in event of grounding / collision ☐
adverse weather SAR publications / IAMSAR manual ☐
Action to be taken in event of piracy ☐
Mooring and unmooring / dredging ☐ SAR procedures ☐
anchor
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EPIRBs P200518
Preparations for anchoring / choosing ☐
Use of RADAR for SAR ☐