ORAL 2013-19

Candidate: Logi Tasan
Examiner: Capt Iswadi bin Mokhtar
Duration: no idea
Status: passed

1.      APEM and entering R.V

2.      ship collision and action

3.      sea anchor and function

4.      ISM

5.      principle of survival.

6.      MARPOL annex 5-new garbage pelan

7.      Line Throwing appliance

8.      azimuth p.klang @ 1700hrs

9.      radar plotting

10.  rule 3,6,10,19

11.  west cardinal mark buoy

12.  light = RAM and action seeing this vsl ahead of you in TSS

13.  which is better lifeboat or liferaft

Candidate: Chung Woon Ting 
Examiner: Lim Poh Keong
Duration: 1 hr 20 min
Status: Passed

1.      Asked about last ship, type of cargo and route, how is life onboard.

2.      Rules:
a) Rule 10 (Specifically told me to give keypoints only but I continue WBW, he stopped me at 10 b.
b) Lights VRAM seen from stbd (weird because no masthead light), Vsl on your port bow action. (Rule 18, broad alteration to port pass astern of her)
c) 2 sidelights seen ahead, ACTION! (Obviously a sailing vsl but I answered Rule 14, A/C to stbd, he has no comment)
d) How you define head on situation? (R 14 B)
e) How you determine length of vessel through lights?
f) What is the range of visibility of lights? (Never finished and he switched to another question...)
g) Give examples of VRAM (WBW R3 VRAM then he stopped me)
h) Towing light characteristic (Told him yellow light with similar characteristics as stern light)

3.      List 15 Admiralty Publications on the bridge (Additionally he asked the following after looking at my list:)
a) What is content of ASD? How many Volumes?
b) How many Vol of ALRS, name, and Content of Vol 1.
c) How to correct ALL (he wants to hear check if previous update has been done or not)
d) Do we have corrections for ATT?

4.      ECDIS-Literally everything, from type of chart, limitations, how to update and who provide updates. 

5.      NTM (I told him we have 7 sections then he stopped me)

6.      Buoys:
a) Preferred Channel to Stbd Region A-Characteristics and what does it means.
b) Lights and the meaning of Composite Group Flashing (2+1)
c) Any new buoys? (My answer emergency wreck buoy)

7.      Calculation:
a) Azimuth Star Sirius, Posn and GMT given
b) If your Gyro is so and so Gyro how much Gyro error?
c) Do we need to calibrate?
d) How frequent you take compass error per watch?

Candidate: Tineesvaran
Examiner: Lim PK
Status: PASS

1.      passage planning..he gave me nories table,chart catalogue,and  lay a course from one fathom back to melaka..in regards to a safety passage..get to know what is one fathom back..function..

2.      APEM

3.      NTM contents

4.      what the symbol (*) meaning in the correction list..

5.      Radar plotting

6.      ISM code

7.      Preffered channel buoy

8.      Situation : NUC light on your port bow..action..Rule 7,8,18..understanding