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Masters - comprehensive

25 questions.

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1. To increase the extent of flooding your vessel can suffer without sinking, you could ______.

A. Increase the reserve bouyancy

B. None of these

C. ballast the vessel

D. raise the center of gravity

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2. The condition which causes a liquid within a partially filled compartment to flow from side to side as a vessel rolls or pitches is called:

A. Loose water

B. Transverse stability

C. Longitudinal stability

D. Free surface

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3. If you are forced to abandon ship in a rescue boat, you should _______.

A. Remain in the immediate vicinity

B. Head for the closest sea-lanes

C. Vote on what to do, so all hands will have a part in the decision

D. Head for the nearest land

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4.

Where must the draft or loading marks be placed on a small passenger vessel?

A. All of these.

B. On each side of the stem.

C. At each end of the vessel.

D. Near the stern post or rudder post.

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5. The Master is permitted to cut-up a defective shipboard fire hose in the presence of:

A. USCG Marine Safety Inspector

B. USCG Law Enforcement Officer

C. Vessel's owner or designee

D. OSHA or EPA Field Agent

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6. If there are survivors in the water after abandoning an OSV and no rescue craft in sight, they should ______.

A. Send the strongest swimmer to shore for assistance

B. Group themselves in a small circle to create a warmer pocket of water in the center of the circle

C. Tie themselves to the unit to avoid drifting with the current

D. Form a raft by lashing their life jackets together

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7. The effects of down-flooding can be reduced by

A. Maintaining sound watertight integrity

B. Limiting the transverse stability

C. Jettisoning cargo

D. Altering the righting moment

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8. If you must abandon a rig in HEAVY SEAS, in a lifeboat, you remove the safety pin and pull the hook release?

A. One to three feet before the first wave contact

B. Upon first wave contact

C. Immediately upon launching

D. Only when waterborne

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9. What percentage of life jackets must be aboard your vessel for the total number of persons carried?

A. 125%

B. 100%

C. 65%

D. 90%

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10.

What is the minimum length of a life float paddle on a small passenger vessel?

A. Four feet

B. Six feet

C. Five feet

D. Three feet

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11. You have abandoned ship and after two days in a liferaft you can see an aircraft near the horizon apparently carrying out a search pattern. You should _____.

A. Switch the EPIRB to homing signal mode

B. Use visual distress signals in conjunction with the EPIRB

C. Turn on the strobe light on top of the EPIRB

D. Use the voice transmission capability of the EPIRB to guide the aircraft to your raft

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12. Heeling is temporary leaning of the vessel from ________?

A. all of these

B. free surface effect of a water tank

C. an internal force

D. an external force

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13. Block and tackle arrangement is rigged as shown in the illustration D029DG, number 3, the amoutn of force required to hold the 1500-pount load stationary would be _____?

A. 500 lbs

B. 650 lbs

C. 375 lbs

D. 1500 lbs

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14. When discovering a fire aboard your vessel you should

A. Notify the pilothouse immediately

B. Shut off air supply to the fire by closing hatches, doors, vents, etc.

C. De-energize electrical systems to the affect space, if possible

D. All of these

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15.

Splicing the ends of a piece of wire or fiber rope can make a _____.

A. Endless slings

B. Chain slings

C. Single slings

D. Combination slings

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16. Neutral equilibrium exists at angles of inclination when ______.

A. B equal to K

B. M equals G

C. B below G

D. G below M

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17. A vessel's center of gravity is lowered when ________.

A. weight is moved below deck

B. weight is distributed evenly on the main deck

C. freeboard increases

D. Ice develops on or above deck

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18. Free surface is the condition which causes a liquid within a partially filled compartment to:

A. Flow from side to side as a vessel rolls

B. Reduce stability

C. All of these

D. Flow from bow to stern as a vessel pitches

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19.

A vessel not required to have a power driven fire pump must have at least how many 21/2 gallon?

A. Four

B. Two

C. Three

D. One

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20. Generally, the lower the vessel's center of gravity is the ________?

A. more neutral the vessel

B. more unstable the vessel

C. more stable the vessel

D. least negligible effect on vessel stability

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21. Machinery that may be located in the engine room (small passenger regulations):

A. Pumping systems

B. Evaporators and condensers for making fresh water

C. Generators

D. All of these

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22.

The meanings associated with the orange shapes are _____.

A. open-faced diamonds signifying that certain operating restrictions are in effect within the marked

B. open-faced diamonds indicating that vessels are excluded from the marked area

C. open-faced diamonds signifying danger

D. open-faced diamonds signifying nothing

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23. Anchor chain color markings express the amount of chain deployed from your vessel. What is the marking for 3 shots of chain?

A. Three links on each side of the 15-fathom detachable link painted white

B. Only the detachable links are painted a color

C. Three links on each side of the 30-fathom detachable link painted white

D. Three links from each side of the 45-fathom detachable link painted white

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24. 176.302 - The Certificate of Inspection (COI) issued to a vessel carrying more than six passengers must be:

A. Retained at the owner's principal place of business

B. Posted on board under glass, if practicable

C. Posted on the dock where passengers are embarked

D. Kept on file by the Collector of Customs

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25. When a vessel rolls, the force of the ______?

A. center of gravity does not move aboard a vessel

B. center of gravity will move in the same direction as the roll

C. center of gravity will move away from the direction as the roll

D. center of buoyancy will move away from the direction as the roll

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26.

Aids that are used to mark fairways, mid-channels, and offshore approach points, and have unobstructed water on all sides, will show what color lights?

A. Yellow

B. Red

C. White

D. Green

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27.

A ________ is a length of light line used to carry a larger line or hawser between vessels.

A. Messenger

B. Pendant

C. Anchor line

D. Tow line

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28. Stability is determined principally by the location of two points in a vessel, the center of buoyancy and the _______.

A. metacenter

B. geometric center of the waterplane area

C. center of flotation

D. center of gravity

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29.

The Master of a small passenger vessel fitted with loading doors must ensure that the doors are closed, watertight and secured ________.

A. When loading cargo.

B. At all times when underway on a voyage on unprotected waters.

C. At all times, at the dock or underway when the loading door is not actually being.

D. When leaving the dock.

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30. Maintaining sound watertight integrity will reduce the effects:

A. Yawing

B. Limiting the transverse stability

C. Gravity

D. Down-flooding

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31.

Which type of ventilation is required for enclosed spaces containing gasoline,machinery, or fuel tanks? (small passenger vessel regulations)

A. Natural supply and mechanical exhaust.

B. Natural supply and natural exhaust.

C. Mechanical supply and mechanical exhaust.

D. Mechanical supply and natural exhaust.

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32. A hallway on board a vessel is called:

A. Passageway

B. Ladder

C. Bulkhead

D. Deck

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33. What distance are draft mark numbers required to be?

A. 6 inches

B. 6 centimeters

C. 6 fathoms

D. 6 millimeters

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34. The maximum distance that th elight may be seen under existing meteorological conditions at sea is ________.

A. Horizontal range

B. Luminous range

C. Nominal range

D. Geographic range

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35. When you jam both blocks together and the fall lines cannot be hauled any closer, this is called _______.

A. Round-in

B. Hauled together

C. Two-blocked

D. Overhauled

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36. Generally, the following can cause a loss of stability by ________?

A. Moving weight below deck

B. all of these

C. Topping the vessel's water tanks

D. loose water shifting in a compartment from side to side

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37. The items that includes the moving or moveable parts that are used to hoist or operate gear:

A. Running rigging

B. All of the above

C. Standing rigging

D. Stays and backstays

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38.

Stairs in a ship are called __________.

A. Hatches

B. Ladders

C. Passageways

D. Stairs

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39.

What is the safe-load mark for the vessel called?

A. Winter loadline

B. Main deck line mark

C. Summer loadline

D. Plimsoll

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40.

When a ship is properly balanced fore and aft, it is called _____?

A. Down by the stern

B. List

C. Down by the head

D. In trim

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41. 185.604 - Life float and buoyant apparatus must be identified in printed lettering? (small passenger vessels regulations)

A. Bow shall have the vessel's name

B. Number of persons allowed into the float

C. All of the above

D. Paddles/oars must have the vessel's name

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42.

White and yellow lights have lateral significance.

A. False

B. True

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43.

As appropriate for the voyage, all vessels must carry adequate and up-to-date _____________. (small passenger vessel regulations)

A. Light Lists

B. Charts

C. All of these

D. Coast Pilots

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44. Stability is determined principally by the relationship of the center of buoyancy and the ______.

A. center of flotation

B. forward and aft perpendicular

C. Center of gravity

D. Length of the vessel

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45.

Transverse (athwartships) stability tends to keep the vessel from __________.

A. Going fast

B. None of the above

C. Pitchpoling

D. Capsizing

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46. Loose water shifting within the vessel from forward and aft can cause ________?

A. All of these.

B. a loss of stability

C. a permanent heel

D. an improvement in the roll

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47. Listing is permanent leaning of the vessel unless equilibrium is reached by aligning?

A. None of these

B. center of buoyance and metacenter

C. center of gravity and metacenter

D. center of gravity and center of buoyance

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48.

Forces caused by placement of weight within the hull are called __________.

A. Buoyancy

B. Stability

C. Dynamic

D. Static

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49.

Failure to understand the course or intention of an approaching vessel should be indicated by

A. Not less than five short blasts

B. One prolonged blast

C. One short blast

D. Not less than five prolonged blasts

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50. Which statement is TRUE about an immersion suit?

A. The suit will help you float indefinite

B. The suit seals in body heat and provides protection against hypothermia

C. The suit is flameproof

D. The suit must, without assistance, turn an unconscious person's mouth clear of the water more than 5 seconds

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