Exam: Master Unlimited

Examiner: Nayyer Hussain Naqvi

Duration: 1hr 20 minutes

Attempt – First Attempt

Date: Jan 2024

Result: PASS

Examiner joined at the exact time.

Checked id,room and asked for the consent for recording the exam. UK flagged container ship
throughout the exam.

1) How will you start the takeover, already in the Master’s cabin. Certificates to check?
2) ISSC certificate audit schedule.
3) Preparation for SEQ survey,what areas to be checked during the survey?
4) How would you prepare for the MLC inspection?
5) 17 year old cadet joining,how will you sign him on? Rest hours of a young person.
6) Going from Antwerp to Mexico what information you expect from the 2/Off,the Ch.Off and the
Ch.Eng
7) Upon departure Antwerp,vessel experiencing heavy weather and sub-freezing
temperatures resulting in ice accretion. What will be your actions.
8) Due to the heavy weather some containers fell overboard, Action?
9) Now suddenly your ship is heavily listing to starboard.Action?
10) Vessel’s hull found damaged. What will be your preparations before proceeding to the
place of refuge.
11) Now the vessel is in port of refuge, what are you expecting to do there .
12) What is Inwater survey and what is checked under it. How is it carried out.
13) Oil spill during bunkering while alongside in the place of refuge.Action?
14) Explain ARPA limitations to the cadet
15) You receive VHF DSC distress alert area A1.What will be your action.
16) How is OSC designated during the SAR operation.
17) You have proceeded for the rescue and saw a liferaft full of survivors, your actions.
18) How are you going to attend the survivors and what information you would want from them.
Who you will report to.
19) Stowaway found prior arrival Mexico,actions?
20) Showed a magnetic compass picture, Identify its parts and how to use each of them
to correct the effects/errors.

21) BUOYAGES- HEADING INBOUND

1) STBD HAND LATERAL MARK.
2) PREFERED CHANNEL TO STBD. REGION A
3) WEST CARDINAL MARK(HDG 180)
4) NORTH CARDINAL MARK.(HDG 090)
 5) EMERGENCY WRECK BUOY

22) ROR Situations,which rule affecting and action.

1) NUC at the port bow and own vessel is CBD
2) Ram on port bow and VEF right ahead with a cone showing outlying gear more than
150m
3) PDV crossing from port to starboard
4) Target PDV crossing TSS from starboard to port.

23) Lights and shapes(Identify light,fog signal,day signal)

NUC stopped
RAM tow(more than 50 mtrs and tow>200 mtrs)

24) RV, Own vessel doing 040T,Relative vectors ,first slide, both the targets forward of the
beam(port and starboard)
25) RV,One target on the stbd bow and one stbd quarter.

Special thanks to Mr Sanket Mahajan(Oceanwise training) and Whitehorse maritime

academy for their invaluable guidance and support. Cheers.