Candidate’s Name:

Ports and Maritime Organization (AA)

Seafarers' Examination and Certification Directorate
Exam Code : SMCN – 93 4(AA)
Subject: Terrestrial and Coastal Navigation & Meteorology. Date: 1393.06.25
Rank : Second Officer (GT>500 ) Time allowed: 3.0 Hrs
Use deviation card No 1, Tide table 2000 , Chart No 2887, Nories Table, Variation as per chart.
Positions in the brackets are only for guidance and should not be used as actual position of symbols.

Part A : Total marks (70 marks) - (Pass mark 45 )

Q.1) - An observation of sun at 0912 Hrs when worked with DR position 26º04' N, 053º22' E was;
brg 106T, intercept 3'.7 away.
Find vessel position at 1142 Hrs when meridian passage give observed latitude of 26º04' N, if
vessel’s course 095T, speed 12 kts and current to set 030º at 3.0 kts during the observations.
(20 marks)

Q.2) - Vessel in position 5 miles east of Zaqqum Lt, Racon (Z) (25º 07' N, 53º 25' E) requires to
reach position 5 miles West of Jazireh-ye Forur (26º 07' N, 54º 27' E) with speed of 15 Knots.
After steaming 4.5 hrs Jazireh-ye Forur brg taken to be 40º on starboard bow and its distance 17miles.
Find the actual set and drift if during the passage current was assumed to set 125º at rate of 2.5 Knots
and if 5º of leeway to be considered for NW'ly wind. (20 marks)

Q.3) - What is the rhumb line course and, distance by Mercator sailing from 45º 14' N, 140º 12' E to
65º 17' N 110º 20' W (15 marks)

Q.4) - A vertical sextant angle of a lighthouse (charted height 40m) measured to be 0º 51'.9
Using following information compute the range/distance of the vessel from the lighthouse.
Height of tide = 2.16m, MHWS = 4.3m, MLWS = 1.1m, IE 1.2 off, the arc, HE = 10.5m.
(15 marks)

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Part B : Total marks (30 marks) - (Pass mark 15 )

Q.5) - Discuss the condition favorable for the formation of convection and orographic cloud.
. (15 Marks)

Q.6) - Outline the information may obtain from synoptic charts. (15 Marks)