ORAL 2013-2

Name: Mohd Radman
Examiner: Capt. Nazri
Date: 07th Jan 2013
Status : PASS
Duration:0122 HRS

TARB checking

1.      True bearing for port klang SMT 0900hrs

2.      MP @ 07th Jan1991 port klang

3.      Radar plotting your course .040T*15kts
Target 0900hr 100T*6nm
0906hr 100T * 5nm
0912hr 100T * 4nm
plot and take avoiding action? justify?

4.      Garbage new requirement

5.      Blackout action

6.      Foxtrot flag

7.      Perfomance navigational bridge as per STCW?

8.      Stable equilibrium?

9.      Steering gear test

10.  Towing port bow.

11.  Drydock

12.  Rule 6 safe speed

13.  Steering failure

Name : Rami Omar
Examiner : Sukhbir Singh
Duration : 2 hours
Status : After answering all the questions he decided to fail me because of assignments.

1.      Tarb checking .

2.      Assignment checking (D1-D15).

3.      how often should you take compass error?

(At least once every watch and after every major alteration of course).

4.      how do you take compass error?
(Celestial means – Azimuth of sun, moon, stars, Polaris, or planets…Amplitude of sun and moon. Terrestrial means – HSA/VSA, when alongside true bearing of the jetty, Transit bearing….)

5.      how do you take transit bearing?
(by comparing the true bearing of the two in line objects taken from the chart with the their compass bearing)

6.      he gave me : heading 005 (C), 006 (G), transit bearing 003 (T) and 000 (G) VAR 2 E,….find deviation and compass error?

7.      Lateral mark and proffered channel buoys identify, action coming into port and out from ?

8.      East cardinal mark identify and you heading east ,…action ?

9.      Lights of towing vessel < 50 meters in length seen from ahead action

10.  if she is < 50 meters what light ? and if the tow < 200 meters what day signal and fog signal?

11.  towing vessel seen from astern identify, fog signal day signal, and action?

12.  Vessel aground > 50 meters in length seen from STBD side, identify light, day signal, fog signal and if she is right ahead what is your action?
(after I answered this question he asked me why I waited until I face this vessel? 
Why I came to the shallow water in the first place? He said this way I cannot trust you as an officer because either your passage planning is bullshit or you don’t follow it)

13.  how to do passage plan?
(I explained from stage 1 –planning- until stage 4 –monitoring- in full details for about 10 minutes then he said he does not accept my answer because I didn’t mention the word UKC)

14.  Man overboard action?

15.  Fire in the accommodation action?

16.  Gyro failure action?

17.  how to maintain safe and proper watch at port?

18.  how to maintain safe and proper watch at sea?

19.  how to maintain safe and proper watch at Anchor?

20.  how to calculate swinging circle?

21.  how to break the anchor cable?
(he mean how to dismantle the kenter lugless shackle and name its parts)

22.  meteorology symbols identify and explain?

23.  he gave an old edition of NTM and a chart and asked me to find the correction and correct the chart?

24.  after I did the previous question he asked me to see if the chart is corrected up to date and he wants to see how u show him in steps?

25.  when you join as a third officer onboard, what documents you expect the officer to hand over to you ?
(I explained about all LSA and FFA documents- maintenance logs and records, certs, inventories, plans of locations, etc….- but he said that he wants other documents then I mentioned the handing over cert and familiarization checklist of bridge equipments and equipments manuals and publications and charts….etc…still he was not satisfied

26. what is the name of the brand of the fire hose coupling used on your last vessel…he was checking my answer from my FFA assignment?

      (John Morris)

He asked so many questions and he was tracking my answers from my assignments and since I didn’t answer some of the questions exactly like what is inside my assignment he assumed that I didn’t do them and I just copied them….so he failed me. My advice to my friends;please go and read your assignments and understand them cover to cover in order to avoid this kind of situation – and hopefully you don’t face it -.I like to thank everyone for their support and I wish all the best for the rest.