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