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1
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What flag is divers working over the side?

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Alpha

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2
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Which flag is handling of fuel or ammunition?

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Bravo

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3
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What flag is fixed wing flight operations?

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Foxtrot

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4
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Which flag is guide ship?

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Golf

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5
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Which flag is coming alongside in port or nesting?

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India

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6
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Which flag is personnel working aloft?

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Kilo

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7
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Which flag is man overboard?

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Oscar

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8
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Which flag is personnel recall?

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Papa

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9
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Which flag is small boat recall?

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Quebec

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10
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Which flag is underway replenishment?

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Romeo

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11
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Which flag is weighing anchors?

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Uniform

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12
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What is Flag five?

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Emergency breakdown flag

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13
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Which flag is prep(while conducting unrep)?

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15 minutes to disengage

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14
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What is prep? ( in port)

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Five minutes until colors

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15
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What is H-hood?

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Used for infrared transmission. Can be only seen at night. Four mounted on the mounted on the forward CIWS facing the signal shock

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16
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What’s ship binoculars? Big eyes?

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2 flag bag on the ship. Port and starboard

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17
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How many different type of flag bags?

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2 port and starboard. International contains 50 bags. Allied contains 64

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18
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Ansat/2A?

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Infrared transmission. Located on the yardarm port and starboard

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19
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What are yardarm blinkers?

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Located on the yardarms port and starboard. Used for OMni directional transmission

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20
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What commutes distress signal or directional movement from the ship or boat to ship?

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Flares

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21
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What is the voyage management system?

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A virtual way of navigation

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22
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What’s the first substitute flag?

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Absence of flag officer or unit commander

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23
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What’s the second substitute flag?

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Absence of chief of staff

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24
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What’s the third substitute flag?

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Absence of the captain

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25
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What’s the forth substitute flag?

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Absence of civil or military official

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26
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What’s true bearing?

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Direction of an object 360 degree relative to true north.

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27
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What is relative bearing?

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The direction of an object in a 360 degree circle from the bow of the ship

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28
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What’s dead in the water? lol

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When a ship is not making way under her own power.

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29
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What’s head on?

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When two vessels are meeting on reciprocal or nearly reciprocal course where possible collision could exist. Both vessels should alter course starboard to pass down port side

30
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What’s crossing?

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When two vessels are crossing so as to involve a risk of collision. The vessels that has the other on its starboard side should keep out

31
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What’s overtaking?

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When a vessel is coming more then 22.5 degrees abaft

32
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What’s stand on?

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When one of the two vessels is to keep out of the way the other shall keep her course and speed

33
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What’s give way?

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When each vessel is directed to keep out of the way of anther vessel as far as possible

34
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What’s restricted ability to maneuver?

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Three all around lights, red over white over red, plus the normal u/w lights

35
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What’s vessel not under command.( loss of rudder control, no engines working)

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Two all around lights red over red with the normal underway lights. Red over red the captain is dead

36
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Anchored lights

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Jackstaff, flagstaff,aircraft warning lights and all white deck lights

37
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What are the low visibility fog signal for underway?

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1 prolong blast of the ships whistle in 2min intervals

38
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What are the low visibility fog signal for anchored?

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Rapid ring of the ships bell followed by ringing of the gong

39
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What are stadimeters?

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An optical instrument used for measuring range from one ship to anther, with known height of the highest radar mast

40
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What’s an optical instrument used for measuring angles of fixed objects or stars?

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Sextant

41
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What’s ships time pieces used to keep universal standard time?. Three in the chart room?

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Chronometer

42
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What’s a sighting aid that’s on a gyro repeater that is used to take a rough bearing to an object either true or relative. It uses a poo-up sight that is used like the open sight of a riffle with a prism below it.

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Bearing circle

43
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What’s a more accurate sighting device which incorporates a telescope as the viewing mechanism

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Telescope alidade

44
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What’s an instrument consisting of a protractor and one or more arms attached o a parallel motion so that the movement of the arms everywhere is parallel. Protractor can be rotated and set at any position

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Parallel motion protractor

45
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A map intended for use by aircraft or ships?

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Chart

46
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What’s a compass having one or more gyroscopes as the directive element which has North seeking

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Gyrocompass

47
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What’s in front of the pilot house always seeking magnetic north?

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Magnetic compass

48
Q

What Radar do we have?

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SPS-64, 67, 49

49
Q

What measures the depth of water by sending out sound signals, ranges are from 109 feet to 6,000 fathoms

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Fathometer

50
Q

What uses satellites to give position m, there are eight in orbit and use dollar?

A

Satellite navigation

51
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What uses satellites to determine latitude and longitude within 10 feet

A

GPS

52
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What’s either a visual bearing or a radar that passes through the ships location?

A

Line of position

53
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What’s an estimated position?

A

?

54
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What’s a collection of LOP taken at the same time, or advanced to a common time that passes through a common point? The fix can be visual( bearings,celestial LOP’s,sextant angeles) and shoes that the ship was at a particular point in time

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Fix

55
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What runs east and west on the chart but is measured North and south?

A

Latitude

56
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What runs north and south and measured east and west?

A

Longitude

57
Q

What’s the plotting of the ships position by using the ordered course and speed to advance from a known position (a fix) to a point in the future.

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Dead reckoning

58
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What are the six rules for dead reckoning?

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  1. Course change
  2. Speed change
  3. L.O.P
  4. FIX or running fix
  5. Labeling
    6 every hou on the hour
59
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Why do you use dead reckoning?

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To give the navigator a reasonable account of the ships position without having to take sights or obtain position by other means since in many places on earth a vessel may be beyond today’s sophisticated navigation

60
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Who is designated by the commanding officer to perform their and is responsible for the safe and proper operation of the ship?

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OOD

61
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Who is in charge of watch section underway and in charge of the proper execution of 1MC and lookouts?

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Boatswain of the watch

62
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Who assists the OOD in the safe evolution of the ship and carry out duties prescribed by the OOD?

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Conning officer

63
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Who follows the conning officers orders to Change course and speed upon request?

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Helmsman/Lee Helmsmen

64
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Who searches the water for the man and point out his position always pointing to the ship even as the ship moves?

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Lookout

65
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Who keeps informing the OOD of the ships position and weather picture?

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Quartermaster of the watch

66
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What measures the weight of the atmosphere called pressure. A warm front contains water vapor, so it’s pressure valve is lower then on cold fronts. Located next to BMOW desk

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Barometer

67
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What instrument measures the water vapor condensation point through the cooling of the thermometer with a wet whick attached to it? The difference between the wet and dry bulb is entered into a chart to get the drew point abs can determine the height of the highest and lowest clouds

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Psychrometer

68
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What’s a JX?

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Radio and signals circuit.( bridge,signal bridge,cic, and radio)

69
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What is a JL?

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Lookouts(bridge, CIC, lookout stations)

70
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What’s a hand held intercom used to project voice at long range? lol

A

Bullhorn

71
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What’s a control, individual switch or master. Each bulb had two filaments. If one goes the other stays lighted. A yellow light will warn you

A

Telltale panel

Eswas (30 decks)

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