Emergency Situations

Question 1

MOB STBD side what are your initial actions?

Answer 1

• Turn the wheel towards the MOB
• Inform Master
• MOB alarm
• Three long blasts on the ship’s whistle
• Drop both MOB lifebuoys
• Drop MOB marker on ECDIS, GPS
• Inform Engine room

Question 2

Follow up actions for MOB?

Answer 2

What does Captain want to know?

• Traffic
• Prox of nav hazards
• Weather
• Vicinity of land

Manoeuvre

• Engage hand steering
• Usually, Williamson - hard over to one side, once vessel reaches 60° off original course, then hard over the other side until 20° off reciprocal course, wheel amidships and steady her on the reciprocal course

Communications
- Mayday - dependant on what sea area

• Post extra lookouts

Rescue

• Muster rescue boat team
• Thinking of wind and drift, giving MOB a lee
• Mustering medical team
• Rigging pilot ladder and nets

Question 3

Call from AB fire in the paint locker, initial actions?

Answer 3

• Inform the Master
• Sound the fire alarm
• Muster the crew (for emergency duties and for any potential casualties)
• Remote closure of fire doors
• Ensure safe nav of ship or go to muster duty (fire team leader maybe)

What does Captain want to know?

• Traffic
• Prox of nav hazards
• Weather
• Vicinity of land

Question 4

What are the follow-up actions for a fire?

Answer 4

• Investigate the extent of the fire
• Create a plan
• Only send a fire team in to save a life

On-scene command

• Comms with fire teams and Bridge
• Organising fire parties and point of entry, what rooms to check
• what kind of search (lefthand/righthand and indirect/direct)
• Boundary cooling/boundary starvation

Question 5

You have a collision with another vessel, what are your initial actions?

Answer 5

• Inform Master
• Sound the general emergency alarm
• Close watertight doors and fire doors
• Manoeuvre vessel to minimise the effect of the impact
• Muster crew
• start fire pumps
• Display correct lights and shapes
• Initiate SOPEP response

Question 6

Follow up actions for collision?

Answer 6

• Distress alert
• Sound bilges and tanks
• Assess damage
• Stability Assessment
• Offer assistance to other crew
• Monitor weather and traffic

Question 7

You have grounded the vessel what are your initial actions?

Answer 7

• Inform Master
• Sound the general emergency alarm
• Muster crew
• Close WTD
• Initiate SOPEP
• Stop engines

Question 8

Follow up actions for grounding?

Answer 8

• Appropriate alert as well as inform ships around you
• Sound bilges and tanks and around the ship
• Assess damage
• Stability Assessment
• Determine the chance of re-floating with the tide
• Monitor weather and traffic

Question 9

Emergency Situation Structure

Answer 9

• Safety of people / signals (raise the alarm and distress signals, lights and shapes)
• Prelinminary Action (calling Master and first actions depending on emergency)
• Assess (the situation)
• Resources (docs and pubs, teams, Fire brigade tugs salvage radio medical advise)
• Reporting (Record keeping)
• Checklist (incase you forget anything)

For a management answer talk about the teams you have and what they will be doing NOT I will do this… etc

PEP is most important do not give answers that could negatively effect any of these if the examiner continues to push you for answers

Question 10

Crane wire broken

Answer 10

• Stop operation
• Clear area of crew
• Check for injuries