46. What should a Muster List include? What kind of Muster Lists did you have on the last vessel?
A Muster List should include the following points: (1) Details of emergency alarm signal
How ship-abandon order According to the STCW95, the BAC shall not be more than 0.08% by weight any time when being tested, but the CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) requires the BAC to be no more than 0.04%. Watch-keepers are not allowed to drink any alcoholic beverage 4 hours before their watch.
(2) Will be given
(3) Substitutes for the key personnel who may become disabled
(4) The boat to which each person belongs and duties to be performed in an abandon ship situation
(5) The specific group to which a person belongs and general duties during various emergencies
(6) Any additional point of each pump (7) Specific assembly point of each group. The Muster Lists must be ready before a ship sails.
We had the following Muster Lists on board the last vessel: General emergency, fire fighting, fire in the engine, emergency steering, abandon-ship, man overboard, oil pollution prevention station.
47. What is heavy weather condition? Under heavy weather conditions, what preparations should you make before sailing?
I think heavy weather means weather conditions of wind force of 8 or above on the Beaufort scale and wave height of greater than 5 meters.
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During heavy weather conditions, the following preparations should be made (1) If possible, select a route that can avoid the heavy weather area (2) Inform the crew of the predicted heavy weather and issue a warning. Make sure that the warning is known to all crew on board
(3) Check the hull strength based on stowage calculations, cargo loading and stability documents. Ballast the ship to increase the draught and take action to prevent propeller racing, reduce oscillations and slamming of the ship of the ship if the ship is in ballasting condition.
(4) Make sure the following holes are closed: hatches, cargo hold, bosun’s store, manhole; accesses to accommodation spaces and steering gear room; tank air pipes, sounding caps; all water-tight doors and water-tight openings on the ship
(5) Ensure that measures are taken to prevent movement of cargo and other objects on various parts of the ship
(6) Ensure that cargo gears such as derricks, cranes and life boat are securely lashed
(7) Ensure that the conditions of the stowage of anchors and anchor chains are checked
48. Under heavy weather conditions, what preparations should you make before sailing?
If navigating in heavy weather, the following should be paid attention to: Adopt measures to prevent slamming and pounding of the ship, considering the frequency of encounters with swells and change speed or course if necessary? a) The watch keeping officer shall change over to parallel operation of the steering gear, if possible
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b) If possible, change the auto pilot to “rough sea mode” or change over to manual mode
c) Master shall frequently check the weather and sea conditions, observe future changes and judge if there is a problem with the present course and speed
d) Report the weather to the nearest port authority or the ships in the vicinity on the bad weather and ask them to be careful and warn them e) The master shall check the abnormalities whenever possible to make the ship in good condition.
49. If the stevedores damage the crane, derrick or any other equipment on board, what should you do?
Firstly, I shall ask the duty officer have a careful supervision when the stevedores are loading and unloading cargo and ask the duty officers to report to me any incident or any damage the workers have done to the vessel equipment.
If equipment damages occur, usually, I will see how serious the damage is. If the damage is not very serious, I shall ask the stevedore company to make repair. At least, I shall ask the stevedores to acknowledge their liabilities. But anyway, I shall not allow the stevedore workers to leave the vessel until the damage is settled properly.
50. Before and during dry-docking for the vessel, what should a Chief Officer do?
The Chief Officer shall prepare a detailed repair list for the approval of the master and the company, adjust the proper trim as per the dock’s reqirement.
51. How do you balance the interests between the ship owner and the charterer?
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Sometimes, the crew are heavily pressured in the circumstances; the charterer just pushes the master to catch time, but there will be no time for the maintenance and repairs for the vessel. But I know that the charterer is very important to the ship owner, so good relation with the charterer is very important to both the master and the ship owner.
船东希望大副既能和租家建立良好的关系，又能维护船东和利益。因为大副挣的是船东的工资，但船东挣的是客户（租家）的钱。 52. What do you know about BC Code?
The BC code refers to the IMO Bulk Cargo Code. In this code, bulk cargo operation procedure are stated. This is a very important manual and the Chief Officer must study it with care and follow the instructions in the Code at work, especially when makes the stowage plan. 53. How should you deal with the garbage on board the ship?
MARPOL 73/78 provides for detailed regulation on garbage disposal. Usually, any shipping company should have its own Garbage Management Plan in its SMS manuals. Usually, the Chief Engineer or the Chief Officer is the designated person in charge of carrying out the garbage disposal, but all crew on board should follow the garbage management plan.
Garbage is disposed in four steps, i.e. collection, separation, processing and disposal. The Chief Engineer or the Chief Officer should make clear records in the Garbage Record Book. The Master has to make sure the Garbage Record Book is available for checks at any time.
The garbage can roughly be divided into two types: the biodegradable and persistent garbage. The former refer to those that can be rotten by themselves, such as food paper, and wood; the latter refers to those that can not rotten themselves, such as plastic, mental etc. The persistent garbage can never be thrown into the sea.
54. When should a turnover/handover of watch be deferred or postponed?
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