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Ensure Compliance With Pollution Prevention Requirements
Ensure Compliance With Pollution Prevention Requirements
Ensure Compliance With Pollution Prevention Requirements
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5. If you use chemicals for cleaning up an oil-spill on the water, what would the
chemicals do?
a. Disperse or dissolve the oil into the water
b. Absorb the oil for easy removal
c. Remove the oil from the water
d. Contain the oil within a small area
6. In case of a pollution in US waters, who shall notify the cleaning up contractor
(OPA-90)
a. Qualified Individual
b. Emergency response team
c. The Master
d. The shipowner
7. In which areas is plastic material accepted for overboard disposal?
a. Not permissible any where.
b. 100 n.m. from shore line.
c. In specially designated areas (ref. MARPOL).
d. In coastal waters.
8. Is there any special area under MARPOL where it is forbidden to pump out any
sludge or oil residues?
a. There are special areas where it is forbidden to pump out any sludge or
oil residues
b. There are 3 special areas: the Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Black
Sea where it is forbidden to pump out any sludge or oil residues
c. There are 4 special areas: the Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea and
Black Sea where it is forbidden to pump out any sludge or oil residues
d. There isn’t any special area where it is forbidden to pump out any sludge
or oil residues
9. MARPOL - Annex I. Your vessel sailed from Bahrain heading for Singapore. 2
days after departure, you would like to empty your machinery space bilges. What
will be the correct procedures in this connection?
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a. Call the bridge and request for position and permission to discharge
overboard through oily water separating and filtering equipment.
b. Discharge overboard through oily-water separating and filtering
equipment without calling the bridge.
c. Call the bridge and request for position and permission to discharge
directly overboard.
d. Wait till after darkness and discharge in most convenient way.
10. MARPOL - Annex IV. Your ship has in operation an approved sewage treatment
plant certified by the Administration. During discharge, while vessel is awaiting
pilot off Cape Henry, USA, the surrounding water is iscoloured. What kind of
action would be appropriate to take?
a. Stop discharge.
b. Continue discharge since the treatment plant is of an approved type.
c. Reduce discharge rate in order to have less discolouration of surrounding
water.
d. Continue discharge since Annex IV of MARPOL is internationally not
yet in force.
11. MARPOL - Annex V. Disposal of garbage outside "Special Areas". After
unpacking spares, you are left with a limited amount of packing materials. Is this
prohibited, if not, what will be the nearest distance to land for disposal into the
sea of these materials?
a. This is prohibited
b. 3 miles
c. 12 miles
d. 25 miles
12. MARPOL - Annex V. Disposal of garbage. Your vessel is in the Red Sea
(Special Area) and the Chief Cook is requesting to have some food waste burned
in the incinerator. Due to problems with incinerator, you decide to have the waste
ground in the Grinder (Lump size max. 25 mm) and disposed off into the sea. Is
this prohibited, if not, how far from nearest land is this legal?
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a. 12 miles
b. This is prohibited
c. 3 miles
d. 25 miles
13. Most minor oilspills are caused by:
a. Human error
b. Equipment failure
c. Major casualties
d. Unforeseeable circumstances
14. New MARPOL regulations came into effect from July 93 stating that the previous
instantaneous rate of discharge of oil content (60 litters per nautical mile) was
changed to:
a. 30 litters per nautical mile
b. 25 litters per nautical mile
c. 20 litters per nautical mile
d. 10 litters per nautical mile
15. Notification logging procedures .(OPA-90)
a. Every report or message must be logged including time and date
b. Only initial reports to be logged
c. Only verbal reports for documentation
d. Only communication with USCG
16. Shipboard Emergency Drills must be carried out at least (OPA-90):
a. Once a month
b. Once a week
c. Once a year
d. Once every six months
17. Ships of 10.000 tons gross tonnage and more, shall be fitted with oil filtering
equipment, complying with Reg.14 (7) of MARPOL for the control of machinery
space bilges. What would be the maximum oil content of oily-water mixture to
pass through the filter?
a. 15 ppm
b. 100 ppm
c. 30 ppm
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d. 60 ppm/n.m
18. Small oil spills on deck can be kept from going overboard by doing what?
a. Plugging the scuppers
b. Driving wooden plugs into the vents
c. Closing the lids on the vents
d. Plugging the sounding pipes
19. The OPA-90 notification requirement is:
a. Notify as soon as you have knowledge of any spill, or threat of a spill
b. Notify as soon as you have knowledge of a spill exceeding 10 gallons of
oil
c. Notify only if you mean that own vessel might be responsible
d. Notify only if you mean that own vessel might be tracked and charged
20. What does the term DISCHARGE mean, as used in the Oil Pollution
Regulations?
a. All the other alternatives
b. Spilling
c. Leaking
d. Dumping
21. What is definition on clean ballast as per MARPOL Annex 1?
a. Ballast with an oil content of less than 15 ppm
b. Ballast with an oil content of less than 45 ppm
c. Ballast with an oil content of less than 1 %
d. There isn’t any definition on clean ballast
22. What is the best way to avoid pollution from small oil-spills aboard a ship?
a. Contain any oil-spill onboard the ship
b. Rig an oil boom around the ship
c. Have dispersing chemicals ready for use in case of oil-spill
d. Have sawdust ready for use
23. What is the disadvantage of using chemicals on an oil-spill on the water?
a. The chemicals make it difficult to remove the oil from the water
b. The water gets a white colour, which makes it easy to detect the oil-spill
c. It is difficult to apply the chemicals if the oil drifts away from the ship's
side
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