Emergencies — Seamanship, Mashit 30

51 questions on emergencies, from the Seamanship exam of Mashit 30. Fire, flooding, grounding, man overboard and abandoning ship. Every question is shown with its correct answer, as in the official question pool.

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What vessel is shown in picture 39? A ship aground.
While underway, you see dead ahead a vessel showing the lights in picture 39. What does she indicate? That she is aground, so I must take care.
What do the regulations require if you cook on board on an open-flame stove? A fire blanket.
In fog you hear, ahead of you, the sound signal shown in picture 122 every two minutes, and on your port bow the sound signal shown in picture 120 every 2 minutes. What do these signals mean? A vessel towing another vessel.
What does a vessel flying the flag shown in picture 106 signal? My vessel is healthy and I request free pratique.
In restricted visibility at night you hear the sound signal shown in picture 118 every two minutes. What do the blasts mean? I am a power-driven vessel, not making way through the water.
What does a vessel flying the flag shown in picture 104 signal? Man overboard.
You are on vessel F and hear vessel H sound three short blasts, three prolonged blasts, three short blasts. What do these blasts mean? This is a vessel signalling that she is in distress.
Vessel F hears vessel H sound a signal of six short blasts, three prolonged blasts, six short blasts. What do these blasts mean? These blasts have no meaning.
When someone falls overboard, you throw a lifebuoy fitted with a light. How is the light switched on? The light comes on when it turns over and starts to float.
While preparing to abandon ship, you launch a liferaft and it inflates upside down. What should you do? Send a swimmer to stand on the gas cylinder, hold the straps provided for this and right the raft.
You are in a motorboat and have run aground on a sandbank. What is the first thing you do? I put the engine into neutral.
When abandoning ship, once all the survivors are in the liferaft, what are your first actions? Have the survivors take seasickness pills.
What is the hydrostatic release of a liferaft? It releases the liferaft automatically at a certain depth.
What do you do immediately after running aground? Damage control: try to limit the damage as the situation allows, and prepare for abandoning ship or for rescue.
Which statement about a liferaft is correct? There are straps on the bottom of the raft for righting it.
Which statement about wire rope is the most correct (the construction is read from left to right)? 1×19 wire is mostly used for the guardrails.
What are the first things to do when you discover flooding on board? Taste the water, start the pumps and close the openings.
While sailing in a bay you run aground on a shoal. What do you do to get off? I will put the engine in neutral or lower the sails and carry out damage control; if possible, I will try to come off by going astern.
What are the important things to brief inexperienced people on before a week's cruise in the bays of Turkey? I will explain how the toilet works, the danger of falling overboard and the help I will need during the cruise, and ask them to tell me about anything that seems unusual to them.
What do you do when someone falls overboard in a rough sea while you are under sail? Throw a lifebuoy, furl the jib, start the engine and go to the person in the water.
You are caught in a storm in your sloop: 45-knot winds and waves an estimated 7 metres high. The mainsail is fully lowered, and the reefed jib you set has torn. The boat is now drifting beam-on to the wind and waves. What must you do? Stream a sea anchor to hold the boat steady, facing the waves and the wind.
In the northern hemisphere, which way does the wind blow around a depression? Anticlockwise.
Which statement is correct? A cold front in the Mediterranean comes with cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds.
You are sailing from Cyprus to Israel in December. 30 miles out of Cyprus you receive a weather forecast: the wind and waves are getting stronger, and the barometric pressure is falling. What do you do? I will prepare the boat for stormy weather, get a safety harness ready and return to Cyprus.
Which is the most correct statement about highs, lows, troughs and ridges? In a high or a ridge in the northern hemisphere, the wind circulates clockwise and diverges (spreads out).
You see a vessel flying a blue and white swallow-tailed flag (flag A). What is the vessel, and what do you do? She has divers down; I must keep at least 200 metres away.
You are underway in vessel A and see vessel I flying flag O with a black ball above it. What do you do? She is in distress; I go to her assistance.
Vessel H, flying the flag in picture 97, sees vessel J flying the flag in picture 104 with a black ball below it. What action is required? J is in distress; you must go and assist her.
The sea is calm with no wind, and your sloop is under engine. Suddenly a lot of smoke rises from the engine compartment, and it is clear that a fire has broken out there. What should you do? Stop the engine, shut off the fuel supply if possible, and spray dry powder in through as small an opening as possible.
What will be your first action when you find white smoke coming from the sail locker in the bow? I will turn the stern to the wind and use every means at my disposal to put out the fire immediately.
Choose the correct statement: A foam extinguisher is suitable mainly for liquid fires.
Choose the correct statement: Foam puts out a fire by cutting the burning material off from the oxygen in the air.
The diagram shows a horizontal section (plan view) of a frontal depression in the northern hemisphere. You are sailing from B to A. What will the atmospheric pressure trend be while you cross the warm air mass (the warm sector)? Steady pressure.
According to the diagram (northern hemisphere), choose the correct answer: At point A the wind will be north-westerly and the estimated pressure 1010.
How can you tell that a liferaft is properly inflated? When the relief valve starts to whistle.
Choose the correct statement about the painter of a liferaft: All of the above.
Which statement about swell is most correct? When the wind blows against the direction in which the swell is moving, the height of the swell decreases.
Vessel J, showing the day-shape in picture 84, sees vessel D showing the flag in picture 98 on her mast and a black ball at the bow. What is vessel D signalling, and what action is required? She is a vessel at anchor with divers down, so you must keep at least 200 metres away from her.
Which statement about a liferaft is true? A liferaft carries at least one sea anchor.
In a motorboat, you have run aground. What will you do first? Put the engine in neutral and carry out damage control.
You are sailing in good visibility in a narrow channel and hear two prolonged blasts and one short blast from astern. What does this signal mean? A power-driven vessel intends to overtake you on your starboard side.
Which statement is most correct? In the area between the warm front and the cold front, the isobars are almost straight lines.
Which of the following items is not part of a liferaft's standard equipment? A portable SART.
What is a vessel signalling when she shows the flag in picture 92 with a black ball above it? I am in distress and need assistance.
You are in a sailing vessel and see, right ahead, a vessel showing the lights in picture 39. What is she signalling, and what will you do? She is aground, so I must take care.
Vessel J, showing the day-shape in picture 84, sees vessel D showing the flag in picture 98 on her mast and a black ball at the bow. What is vessel D signalling, and what action is required? She is a vessel at anchor with divers down, so you must keep at least 200 metres away from her.
Vessel C, showing the day-shape in picture 84, sees G showing the day-shapes in picture 81. What action is required? C is fishing and G is aground; keep as far away as possible.
You are in a sailing vessel and see ahead of you what is shown in picture 39. What should you do? It is a vessel more than 50 metres long, aground; I will keep clear of the danger.
By day you see a vessel flying flag A. What does this flag mean, how will you respond, and what lights will this vessel show at night? The divers' flag; I will keep 200 metres away. At night she will show all-round lights: red, white, red.
Choose the correct statement: A foam extinguisher is suitable for fires involving liquids.

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