OOW UNLIMITED EXAMINER- JOSH DEARING

MARCH 2024

DURATION- 55 MINS

RESULT- PASS

1. What was your past experience, where did you operate, what were you doing?
What was the LSA on your last vessel?

2. What all the documents you will hand over to master?

3.You join as 3/O and the Master asks you to conduct training drill for launching of
davit lifeboat, how would you go about doing this? full process for launching davit
lifeboat. (make sure don’t forget the FPD)

4. Showed picture of HRU wanted to name the parts and what each does? and how
will you connect?

5.How would you do passage plan for Southampton to Norway?

6.Set up Bridge for departure?

7. Safety settings on ECDIS?

8. Radar Setup
1. Difference between Sea Stabilized and Ground Stabilized
2. S band and X band
3. Why you use Sea Stabilized for Collision Avoidance

9. Safety settings on ECDIS?

10. Position Fixing Strategies in coastal and open sea?

11. How do you know GPS showing right position or not?

12. Showed me Synoptic Chart and asked me what information you will get on this?
 Asked me Wind Direction
 Weather at behind cold front and ahead of warm front
 trough

13. What is SEXTANT? Correctable Errors and how will you correct it?

14. Showed me chart symbol

 two-way reporting
 neap tide and flood tide
 tidal diamond and it use
  tide rips

15. Coming off watch and doing fire and safety rounds, smoke coming out laundry
room, what are your actions?
1. Which extinguisher you will use
2. What is the hazards in using CO2
3. SCBA Checks

16. Approaching fog bank what are your actions? How would you set up RADAR for
Restricted Visibility? (don’t forget to say Performance test and adjust tuning and
gain)

17. How would you conduct safe cargo watch?

 Prior Loading of Coal
 Hazards in carrying coal
 How will you monitor

18. Showed me picture of General direction of buoyage, what is it?

 Isolated Danger mark
 East cardinal
 West cardinal
 North cardinal
 Region A preferred channel to STB
 Region B port hand lateral marks

19. Situations Identify and actions? Own vessel PDV

1. Day situation in TSS PDV on STB
2. Night situation CBD port side
3. Night situation RAM port side

20. Radar Plotting

 1st plot just asked ROC exist or not. Two vessels, one port quarter, one STBD
and asked me what is the other vessel course
 Two vessels, one on port quarter, one on STB bow
 Which all the rules apply in Restricted Visibility

Then said that was the end of exam and asked how I thought it went, he
quickly put me out of my misery and said I’d passed. The examiner gave
nothing away throughout the exam, didn’t ask too many follow up questions
and let me talk but he was very fair and it was a good exam.