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Distress and rescue — Navigation B — Instruments, Mashit 30

30 questions on distress and rescue, from the Navigation B — Instruments exam of Mashit 30. MAYDAY, PAN-PAN, EPIRB, SART and GMDSS. Every question is shown with its correct answer, as in the official question pool.

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Questions on Distress and rescue

  1. What is meant by the 'FLOAT FREE' feature? A technical arrangement that lets distress beacons release themselves and float.
  2. When is the distress procedure used from a vessel's radio station? When there is grave and imminent danger to one person, to the whole crew or to the vessel, and the person actually in command decides that immediate assistance is needed.
  3. In which cases should the urgency (PAN-PAN) procedure be used? All of the above.
  4. Which of the following can tell you that another vessel is in distress? NAVTEX.
  5. Where should the EPIRB be placed, in relation to the liferaft, so that its transmission is received best? In the water, next to the liferaft.
  6. What does the radio call PAN-PAN, repeated 3 times, mean? A call that comes before an urgency message, which has second priority on the radio.
  7. For which kinds of event is the "urgency" level used? None of the above.
  8. Until when will DSC equipment keep transmitting a distress alert? Until a coast station or another vessel acknowledges receipt of the alert by DSC.
  9. How is a SART "woken up" into action? Only when an X-band radar triggers it.
  10. An EPIRB that belongs to the Cospas-Sarsat system: Operates on 406 MHz.
  11. What is a search and rescue radar transponder? All of the above.
  12. What are the features of a SART? Buoyancy, a battery for 96 hours of receiving or 8 hours of transmitting, a light and an audible signal.
  13. A vessel's radar screen shows the following marks: ●●●●●●●●●●●●, then after a while ) ) ) ) ) ), and after a further while ◎. What is being received? SART transmissions at about 8 miles, about 5 miles and less than 1 mile respectively, in the order the marks appeared.
  14. A DISTRESS CALL is: All of the above.
  15. A person has fallen overboard from a vessel and has been lost from sight: The distress procedure is followed, and the message must state the position and time the person was last seen.
  16. A message preceded by the word MEDICO: Has urgency priority and must include the patient's sex and age, body temperature, pulse, a description of the symptoms and any treatment given. After the call on channel 16 you may change to another channel.
  17. Messages preceded by SÉCURITÉ, said 3 times: All of the above.
  18. On which equipment can SART transmissions be received? On marine radars working in the X-band.
  19. On which equipment on board can a distress message be received? NAVTEX.
  20. Under the GMDSS requirements, which emergency equipment must a vessel carry in sea area A1? DSC, SART, EPIRB, portable VHF, VHF, NAVTEX.
  21. The following call was heard on VHF channel 16: MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY THIS IS SONDRA SONDRA SONDRA MMSI 356004420 MAYDAY SONDRA THREE FIVE DEGREES FOUR FOUR MINUTES EAST THREE TWO DEGREES FIVE NINE MINUTES NORTH IN ROUGH SEA AND IN DANGER OF SINKING. REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE 8 PERSONS ON BOARD OVER The wording of this distress call may contain some errors. Choose the correct answer: When giving the vessel's position, the latitude must be stated first.
  22. When a distress incident is over and channel 16 is to be "released" for routine calls, what will the station controlling the traffic announce? SEELONCE FEENEE.
  23. In which cases should the safety (SÉCURITÉ) procedure be used? None of the above.
  24. What can be worked out from detecting a SART on the radar screen? The approximate range and bearing of the target.
  25. In which sea areas can an EPIRB that works through satellites orbiting the earth from pole to pole be used? All of the above.
  26. Choose the correct statement about a Cospas-Sarsat beacon: It transmits on 406 MHz to a satellite system, but it is allowed as part of a vessel's equipment as an alternative to a beacon on VHF channel 70.
  27. What is meant by the 'FLOAT FREE' feature? A technical arrangement that lets distress beacons release themselves and float.
  28. What is a DISTRESS CALL? All of the above.
  29. What are the features of a SART? Buoyancy, a battery for 96 hours of receiving or 8 hours of transmitting, a light and an audible signal.
  30. Who should respond immediately to a MAYDAY call? Anyone who hears the call.

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