Candidate’s Name:

Ports and Maritime Organization

Seafarers' Examination and Documents Directorate
Exam Code : SMCN – 936
Subject: Terrestrial and Coastal Navigation & Meteorology. Date: 1393.09.11
Rank : Second Officer (GT>500 ) Time allowed: 3.0 Hrs
Use deviation card No 1, Tide table 2000 , Chart No 2888, 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) - At 1120 hrs a ship was steering 103˚ by compass and speed of 14.5 knots when
JAZ ABU MUSA LT.H. (25˚ 53΄N 055˚ 02΄E) bore 131˚ by compass and at 1250 hrs the
same light bore 209˚ by compass. If there was a Southerly wind causing 4˚ leeway,
what were the positions of the ship at two given times. (20 M)

Q.2) - At 0130 hrs a ship was 11 miles West of DUBAI Fairway Racon (25˚ 21΄N 055˚ 14΄E)
heading North at the speed of 15 knots.
At 0300 hrs Jazirat Abu Musa Lt. house (25˚ 53΄N 055˚ 02΄E) bore 025˚(T).
What was the position at 0300 hrs and the direction of set and rate of current. (20 M)

Q.3) - At 1500 hrs on 25 /August/2000 , the Hand Lead Sounding on a vessel off Ash Shariqah
(ATT. Vol. III) was 6.6 meters. What would be the charted depth. (15 M)

Q.4) - Find the shortest distance and initial course on a Great Circle route on a voyage
From BAHIA BLANCA (38˚ 45΄S 062˚ 16΄W) to CAPE TOWN (33˚ 54΄S 018˚ 25΄E). (15 M)

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

Q.5) - Explain what Buys-Ballot’s Law means. (15 M)

Q.6) - Describe the weather associated with Anti-cyclones. (15 M)