WATCHKEEPER DECK
Oral Examination Checklist (aide memoire)
Seafarer ID      
Name      
Duration      
Certificate
     
Type
Certificate
     
Capacity
Operations
Classification societies, who /
what are they / functions
Frequency of statutory musters
and drills
ISM code / objectives / DP /
position descriptions / prevention
of pollution
ISPS code / definitions /
objectives / role of company and
ship security officer
International conventions /
MARPOL / SOLAS / Ballast
Water / MLC
International ship inspection
regimes / PSC / FSC and purpose
Joining ship / handing over /
responsibilities and duties
Marine orders / SMS certificates /
marine notices
OH&S legislation / purpose of act
/ PIN / prohibition notices / safety
meetings / duty of care /
psychological wellbeing /
drydocking issues
Responsibilities and duties
Ships records, GRB, ORB,
approved stability information
Statutory certificates, validity of
certificates
Types of surveys / preparation of
surveys
Standards of watchkeeping
BRM principles
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Date and Time      
Exam location      
Examiner      
Result      
Purpose      
Fitness for duty ☐ Basic knowledge of loading / ☐
☐ ☐
ballasting techniques to reduce
Maintaining a proper lookout
stress
Maintaining an anchor watch ☐
☐ Basic knowledge of the use and ☐
Navigation in restricted ☐ testing of loading instrument
visibility / congested waters ☐
☐ Effect of density on draft
Navigation with a pilot on-board ☐
FWA / DWA calculation ☐
Performing the navigational ☐
Free surface effect / angle of loll ☐
☐ watch / Position fixing / Use of
charts / Use of equipment IMO minimum stability criteria ☐
Protection of the marine ☐ Knowledge and use of shipboard ☐
☐ environment stability information
Taking over the watch / handing ☐ Knowledge of different types of ☐
over the watch shipboard stresses / shear force /
☐ ☐
bending moments
Voyage planning
Load line diagram ☐
Watch-keeping Records / night ☐
orders / standing orders Movement of 'G' with movement ☐
of weights
Watch-keeping arrangements ☐
☐ ☐
Principles of flotation
Reading draft marks ☐
☐ Bridge equipment
☐ Seasonal zones ☐
AIS precautions / BNWAS /
VDR Stability definitions ☐
ARPA use and precautions ☐
☐ ECDIS use and precautions ☐ Navigation-charts and publications
☐ Emergency steering procedures ☐ Altitudes / meridian passage ☐
RADAR types / presentation / ☐ Basic tidal calculations / chart
☐ setting up of RADAR / testing / datum
precautions ☐
Chart corrections / correction of
☐ Testing of bridge equipment ☐ publications
Use of 'S' band 10-cm and 'X' ☐ Chart symbols abbreviations / ☐
band 3-cm radar interpretation and use of info on
charts
Gyro / magnetic compass errors / ☐
☐ Stress and stability
variation / deviation
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Large and small-scale charts / ☐ dredging anchor Obligations to render assistance ☐

routeing charts ☐ ☐
Preparations for picking up pilot / Onset of heavy weather / TRS /
Notice to mariners ☐ embarking / disembarking avoidance of TRS
Navigation warnings / EGC / MSI ☐ Preparations for anchoring / ☐ Principles of damage control ☐
☐
choosing anchorage / anchoring ☐
Ship reporting systems Response to emergency in port
in adverse weather / dragging
Types and uses of different types ☐ anchor
of charts ☐
Preparations for heavy weather / Dry docking
Various methods of obtaining ☐ handling a vessel in adverse Preparations for docking and ☐
compass errors weather conditions stability issues
Various position fixing methods ☐ Reversible and CPP propellers / ☐ Procedure prior to leaving dock ☐
and obtaining of position lines bow thrusters
Types of docks ☐
Ship & tug interaction / safety of ☐
tug
Cargo work
Search and rescue
Ship squat / factors affecting ☐
Cargo handling equipment / MO32 ☐
squat / Communications ☐
issues
UKC / bank effect / interaction Distress / urgency / safety ☐
Cargo securing / cargo securing ☐
Turning ship short round / ☐ messages
manual
transverse thrust / use of anchor SAR publications / IAMSAR ☐
Confined space entry / ☐ for manoeuvring manual
precautions / gas monitoring
equipment / drills SAR procedures ☐
Prevention of pollution
Failure of cargo gear / heavy lift ☐ Use and testing of SARTs, ☐
precautions Action to be taken in event of a ☐ EPIRBs
pollution incident
IMDG Code / documentation / ☐ Use of RADAR for SAR ☐
dangerous goods - segregation Action to be taken to prevent ☐
and marking / DOC pollution
Essential shipboard equipment and machinery
Issues relating to bridge visibility ☐ Applicable Australian legislation ☐
Anchors and cables / davits / ☐
Loading and discharging ☐ Garbage Management Plan / ☐
lifeboat falls / pilot ladders
precautions Garbage Record Book
Knowledge of survival techniques ☐
Maintaining cargo watch / ☐ Precautions while bunkering ☐
maintaining records Maintenance of bilges and ballast ☐
SOPEP / MARPOL & Annexes ☐
tanks
Ship - shore checklist / bulk cargo ☐
publications Maintenance records / planned ☐
Emergency situations / response and equipment maintenance
Special types of cargoes and ☐
cargo vessels e.g. livestock ☐ Lifeboat release and retrieval ☐
Action in event of grounding /
collision systems / launching procedures
Statutory requirements / testing ☐
and precautions
and inspection of equipment / Action to be taken in event of dragging ☐
records anchor Organisation of musters and drills
☐ Action to be taken in event of piracy ☐ Practical knowledge of associated ☐
Tanker operations / tanker
definitions / Inert gas / tanker Being taken in tow / use of emergency ☐ safety aspects and precautions
towing equipment related to operating equipment
publications
Distress / urgency / safety ☐ ☐
Practical operation of various
messages types of shipboard firefighting
Ship handling
Helicopter procedures ☐ and lifesaving equipment /
Effect of UKC on ship's ☐ EEBD’s
MOB / rescue of persons in water ☐
manoeuvrability ☐
Types of fire detection systems
☐ Means of controlling fire / ☐
Effect of wave impact on vessels ☐
flooding on board ship Use of SCBA / emergency fire
structure
pumps / emergency shut-offs
Launching rescue/survival craft in ☐
Watertight integrity of the ship / ☐
adverse weather
hatch covers / ship side openings /
Mooring and unmooring / ☐ bow & stern doors

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