● Brought up slide of sextant, label the parts and walk through the errors

● Chart symbols: tidal diamond, reporting point, precautionary area

● Showed me a chart with a deep water route and a shallow water route, discussed
what I’d consult in APEM to select the correct route (UKC a big factor)
● What’s in annual notice to mariners
● Slide of masons hygrometer
● Synoptic charts, wanted a lot of info here
● Compass to True calculation
● Vessel ran aground, actions, and day shape/lights for vessel 50m less.
● Vessel on fire, actions (kept pushing til I said I’d isolate the fuel intake into the engine).
● What is stability?
● Considerations of carrying timber
● Considerations of grain cargo
● What are hatch covers
● What are risks of hatch covers
● How do we maintain watertight integrity of hatch covers
● Carriage requirements of ECDIS
● ENC vs Raster charts
● What is GM?
● What is FSE / FSM
● Approaching anchorage, what factors determine good anchorage area?
● What speed do we do on approach to anchorage position?
● Bunkering, all considerations (wanted to hear cover scuppers)
● Whats in tidal stream atlas?
● MOB actions?
● Mayday message?
● Whats in mariners handbook?
● Brought up more slides here… hydrometer, start, epirb, MOB smoke float, 3 types of
pyrotechnics. Wanted details for all of these
● What is an azimuth?
● What is an amplitude?
● Compass error at sea when fully overcast?
● Marpol annex 1
● SOPEP
● IMDG Code
● Actions in RV

● Started with Powerpoint slides

● Sextant (reading on arc and micrometer and uses)
● Vertical sextant angle
● Asked about correctable error
● Sector and leading lights (identification and use)
● Tidal diamond (uses)
● how to find hw/lw
● Spring and neap tides
● Synoptic charts (weather to be expected on high pressure area)
● Synoptic chart (identification of trough/cold front/warm front /occulted front)
● Weather to be expected (on all fronts and in warm sector)
● Passage planning (Singapore to New York)
● Appraisal
● Publications to be used
● Chart correction
● Ntm weekly/ cumulative/ annual
● Chart correction missing on chart(where to find)
● What is T & P?
● Routeing charts(contents)
● Ocean passages of the world(contents)
● Mariners routeing guide chart (contents)
● Ships routeing (contents)
● Alrs (only names of all volumes)
● Admirality tide tables (how you will use this in Singapore)
● Tidal atlases( how to use)
● Sailing directions
● Planning stage(what you will do in planning stage)
● Position fixing in coastal waters.
● Position fixing interval(how you will decide)
● Parralel indexing
● Variation , deviation
● CDMVT
● Magnetic compass(didn’t went too deep in it)
● Preparing for departure (as I said sms checklist / he said that I don’t want to hear
about sms checklist your company may have different procedures.)
● Take over watch
● Anchor watch
● Ecdis (limitations)
● No other bridge equipment as I covered almost everything during preparing for
departure.
● safety settings of Ecdis asked about SQUAT.
● Cargo watch on bulk carrier
● Grain cargo regulations(messed up in it but he said only general things he want)
● Told about assuming max 12 deg list with grain shift and /upright before sailing
and then he moved on.
● How you will decrease cargo shift? , longitudinal boards and covering with tarpaulin/ I
didn’t read about it anywhere but heard about it from a close friend who is working on
bulkies.(as I am not sure about this please read about it)
● Free surface effect.
● Cargo securing manual.
● Collision
● Man over board
● Iamsar manual
● Grounding
● Heavy weather preparations
● Weather tight door/water tight doors.
● Major fire in engine room(you are on bridge)
● Engine room fire (said walk me through procedure)
● Fixed fire fighting (told about closing ventilation/ fuel supply)
● Free fall life boat (launching procedure)

1. STARTED WITH MY LAST VESSEL.

2. PASSAGE PLANNING.
 Only appraisal and planning stage. And asked me to explain few publications.
 How much should be the safe passing distance from land.
 Frequency of position fixing in coastal water.
3. CHART SYMBOLS.
 Reporting point, lights, sector light, compass rose and many more.
 Tidal diamond, what is the purpose and asked to explain calculation.
4. RADAR.
  Limitation, error, performance test, safety settings.
 How will you use for position fixing.
 ARPA.
5. ECDIS.
 Safety settings.
6. SEXTANT.2
 Asked me to identify reading.
 Why do we use Sextant.
 What is VSA and HSA.
 How do we calculate that.
 Can we use VSA for Terrestrial.
7. METEOROLOGY.
 Synoptic chart, Masons hygrometer, Barograph.
8. DUTIES.
 Restricted visibility.
9. NAVTEX.
10. ICS BRIDGE PROCEDURE GUIDE.
11. COMPASSES.
 Checks on magnetic compass.
 Methods of checking compass error.
 How will you check compass error in cloudy sky and restricted visibility.
 How to find variation and deviation.
 Compass to true calculation ( C 150, dev 5E, var. 10W).
12. CARE OF WIRE ROPE AND FROM WHERE WILL YOU GET SWL.
13. USE OF HYDROMETER.
14. EMERGENCY
 Grounding
 Fire in engine room.
15. YOU HAVE SIGHTED RED FLARE. ACTION.
16. IAMSAR VOLUME.
17. CLASSES OF FIRE.
18. SCBA CHECKS.
19. LAUNCHING OF THROWOVER LIFERAFT IN EMERGENCY.
20. LSA
21. HRU.
22. INTERNATIONAL CODE OF SIGNAL.
23. PREPARATION FOR HEAVY WEATHER AND WHAT IS WATERTIGHT DOOR AND
LOCATION ON MY LAST SHIP.
24. PRE ARRIVAL BRIDGE DUTIES.
25. ISM.
26. INTERACTION AND SQUAT.

 Picture of a magnetic compass

o What us this?
o How will you keep this in good condition?
 CDMVT calculation
 Chart symbols
o Reporting point
o Pilot station
o Direction of buoyage
o Sector light
o Drying height
 o Showed a new screen, what are the numbers and letters by a lighthouse?
o If you were sailing round here what would be your thoughts?
 Wanted me to talk about there being lots of these:

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o Tidal diamond
 Explain how to use
 What is the difference between tidal diamonds and tidal stream atlas?
 Masons hygrometer
 Barograph
 APEM – wanted all publications (mandatory and not) and stopped at planning
 How do you use tide tables?
 What causes spring and neap tides?
 What is ECDIS and how do you know it’s good to use?
 What would be your closest distance to land?
 Synoptic chart – approaching warm front weather
 Talk me through everything in a fire drill (not just bridge)
 You are in charge of a life raft muster station, talk me though arriving all the way to
being away and clear of the ship
 Showed me a hydrometer – how is it used?
 What is GM?
 Take over the watch at sea
 You spot a red flare during your watch at night – Actions
 Hazards of timber cargo
 Loading and carrying grain
 IMDG
 What is in IAMSAR III?
 What is COSWP and practical use
 What are M-Notice

Entering RV checklist

Showed a top mark of west cardinal and asked what it would be if seen on a small vessel, I
said it would indicate a vessel engaged in fishing sir,

ROR
Identification only
● VEIF

● Aground

● Towing partially submerged

● Sailing vessel

● Nuc

● Nuc (arc of visibility of all lights)

 ● Aground vessel (arc of visibility of all lights)/sound signals

● Vessel engaged in towing (arc of visibility of mast lights)

● Lights and fog signals:

o CBD
o RAM
o Towing – over 200m
o Pilot vessel
o Towing from astern
o Towing – less than 200m
o NUC, not making way
o Aground from starboard side
o Aground from port side
o Vessel engaged in fishing – Outlying gear 150+
o RAM underwater ops

27. LIGHTS
 RAM, TOWING, SAILING, VEF, AGROUND, NUC, PILOT VESSEL
 Arc of visibility
28. DAY SIGNALS
 NUC, AGROUND
29. SOUND SIGNALS
 PDV MAKING WAY, PILOT VESSEL,
30. EXPLAIN RULE 9
Lights and Shapes: (and actions).
● NUC
● PILOT VSL
● NUC NOT MAKING WAY
● PDV HEAD ON
● RAM NOT MAKING WAY
● TOWING PORT SIDE
● TOWING STBD SIDE
● TOWING INCONSPICUOUS

Situations
● Vessel engaged in towing, partially submerged port side(action/rule/stand on/
giveway)
● Veif not making way/anchor at head(action/rule)

● Sailing vessel starboard(action/rule)

● Cbd tss port side(arc of visibility of all lights/ shape)(action/ rule/stand on /giveway)

● Can you alter to port?

Restricted visibility
One plot on port bow ( I asked for more plots /scanty information)
vsl on port bow 310 (roc exists)(action as per rule)
 One vsl on stbd quarter and one on port bow(roc exists) (action)

 Situations:
o Towing vessel on port bow
o Fishing Vessel crossing you in Narrow channel
 What might your ship encounter in shallow water and in narrow water

31. SITUATION
 PDV on port bow, action.

 Buoyage (Identify only):

 Starboard Lateral IALA A
 Isolated Danger
 Safe Water
 West Cardinal
 North Cardinal

32. BUOYAGE
 Asked me to identify the buoys. (only identification) (safe water, port hand region
B, north cardinal, wreck, special mark with no lateral significance, isolated
danger)
 North cardinal mark heading 090.

 North cardinal vsl course 90

 West cardinal vsl course 90
 East cardinal vsl course 90
 South cardinal vsl course 180
 Identifaication only:-
 East cardinal
 Isolated mark
 Special bouy
 Region a prefer channel to starboard
 Region B starboard lateral mark
 Light of safe water mark
 What is occulting?

Buoyage:
● EAST CARDINAL HEADING EAST
● ISOLATED DANGER
● EMERGENCY WRECK
● WEST CARDINAL
● SAFE WATERMARK

RADAR
Till here everything was going good I was happy, then he went again on restricted visibility
Gave me three plots on port bow, only said time interval was 6 mins. Own vsl 000 actions
I told him that I will alter to starboard and quoted rule 19 d.

 HEADING 000, PLOTTING TIME 0012, MY SPEED IN RELATION TO THE TIME IS

1 MILE.

33. RADAR PLOT, TOLD ME ORIENTATION AND VECTOR.

34. One plot – carry on and he asked about how I would construct WOA triangle
35. Two more completed plot questions

Radar plot: one target only, no dramas here.

VESSEL LENGHT:
NAV STATUS:
ASPECT:
FOG SIGNAL:
DAY SHAPE:
ACTION:
RULE:

AGROUND
less than 100 mtrs Aground
3 distint strokes on the bell for 5sec before and after rapid ring of the bell /1min

Vessel more than 100 mtrs Aground

3 strokes on bell for 5 seconds in fwd,
Then rapid ringing on the bell,
again 3 strokes on bell 5 seconds of sounding gong aft. /1min

ANCHOR
less than 100 mtrs
Rapid ringing of bell for 5 seconds at intervals not more than 1 minute

Vessel more than 100 mtrs at anchor

Rapid ringing of bell for 5 seconds at intervals not more than 1 minute
immediately sounding gongaft for 5 seconds at intervals not more than 1 minute.
(PDV +1 short 1 Prolong 1 short blast giving warning of her position)
(PILT +4 sht blast)