1. If a compartment is capable of preventing the passage of water in any direction under the head of water during intact or damaged condition, the compartment is said to be what?

2. Where are panting stringers fitted?

3. Which of the following best describe a spade type rudder?

4. Transverse watertight bulkheads serve to separate different types of cargo and to divide tanks and machinery from cargo spaces. What is another important function of watertight bulkhead?

5. Which of the following requirements to ships stability for normal operation corresponds to present regulations? (NSCL 4/12.2)

6. What do you call the weights of the hull, machinery, spare parts and boiler water of a vessel measured in the floating dock after its construction ?

7. What structure is consructed in deep tanks for oil fuel or oil cargo in order to avoid damage whenever they have a free surface?

8. If a fire breaks out in the cargo hold upper 'tween decks of a ship, what dangerous condition may occur in putting out the fire using water which has accumulated?

9. Undercut, slag inclusion, brittle fracture, and porosity are common faults in welded joints. What is the meaning of 'undercut'?

10. The shearing stress on a ship's structure are usually greatest at

11. What is the shipboard term for the mass required to increase the mean draught of a ship by 1 cm?"

12. If the pump capacity exceeds the flooding rate, what must be done first?

13. What is considered as one of the basic objectives of damage control in which an action is undertaken to accomplish emergency repair as quickly as possible or to rectify after occurence of damage so as to regain a safe margin of stability and buoyancy?

14. What equipment is needed to hold down steel hatch covers fitted with packing, either manually or hydraulically operated, to ensure watertightness of the cover?

15. Collision bulkhead is a heavyduty watertight bulkhead in the forepart of the vessel to withstand damage after impact from collision. From which part to which part of the vessel does this extends?

16. If the cause of severe list is off-center ballast, counter flooding into empty tanks will

17. Your vessel is damaged and partially flooded. It is listing 12 deg to port and trimmed 8 feet down by the head. It has a long, slow, sluggish roll. Which action should you take first?

18. If the amount of water ingress or flooding rate exceeds the available pump capacity, what must be done first?

19. What is considered as one of the basic objectives of damage control in which an action is undertaken to reduce to the lowest level and localize the damage by taking measures to control flooding and preserve stability and buoyancy?

20. SOLAS-approved Type C watertight door is to be kept closed all the time. However, it may be opened during which condition?

21. Which of the following is not included in the water tight doors to be met during construction as provided in the "International Load Line Convention"?

22. What compartment condition exist when the deck on which the water rest and the bulkheads that surrounds it remain watertight so that water will neither run into nor out of the flooded compartment as the ship rolls?

23. In still water bending, if the weight amidships exceeds the buoyancy, it is equivalent to a beam supported at its end and loaded at the center. What happens to the ship at this condition?

24. What is the real danger of progressive flooding due to ruptured seawater line in an enclosed compartment?

25. As per SOLAS Chapter 11-1, what is the regulation with regards to power-operated watertight doors?

26. What is considered as one of the basic objectives of damage control in which all practical preliminary measures are taken, such as, maintaining watertight integrity, providing reserve buoyancy and stability before damage occurs?

27. What is the term for 'the mass of the ship which is equal to the mass of the volume of water displaced by the ship when it is floating freely at rest'?

28. How is the watertight integrity of a bulkhead maintained when an electric cable pipe passes through it?

29. What result can be calculated by periodical checking of the soundings of the damaged, compartments and comparing it with draft readings?

30. In still water bending, if the ship's buoyancy amidships exceeds the weight, this may be likened to a beam supported at the center and loaded at the ends. What happens to the ship at this condition?

31. What happens when an unisolated saltwater line leading through a secured compartment has been ruptured and has caused the space to become completely flooded without direct access to the sea?

32. What type of watertight door moves in a horizontal or vertical motion parallel to the plane of the door?

33. When a vessel has a positive stability, the distance between the line of force through B and the line of force through G is called the

34. The local stress that is cause by the head resistance due to the work of the bow Din and outo in a seaway is called

35. transversestability calculationsrequires the use of

36. Visual inspection, dye penetrant test, ultrasonic testing and magnetic particle testing are what type of checks on welds and metal components?

37. What is the ship structure that provides a form of protection in the event of damage to the bottom shell, not intended for cargo, but may be used for the carriage of oil, fuel, fresh water, and water ballast?

38. If a ship displaces 12,240 cu.mtrs of sea water at a particular draught, what is the corresponding displacement value of the ship?

39. When is a rudder said to be unbalanced?

40. What is the ship structure installed around the main engine lube oil sump tank, separating it with other double bottom tanks, mainly for access for engineers in doing inspection of holding down bolts and chalks of main engine?

41. Bilge keels reduce a ship's tendency to roll. Where are bilge keels fitted?

42. Buoyancy is a measure of the ship's

43. In order toimprove stability, which of the following should be done?

44. Your vessel has run aground and is touching bottom for the first one - quarter of its length.What is the least desirable method from the standpoint of stability to decrease the bottom pressure?

45. What is the maritime term for the size and strength of structural elements, the dimensions of the ship frames, girders, stiffeners and plates?

46. What is the term for 'the upthrust exerted by the water on the ship'?

47. For what purpose are anchor cable stoppers?

48. Intact buoyancy is a term used to described

49. Which would not provide extra buoyancy for a vessel with no sheer?

50. When a mass of cargo is added, removed, or moved longitudinally, the ship's trim changes. At what point on the waterplane or axis about which the trim changes?

51. What term indicates a curvature of the decks in a longitudinaldirection?.

52. What should be observed concerning a ship's watertight integrity?

53. Hatch corners should either be radiused or elliptical. Why is this so?

54. The principal action in changing from transit to survival draft in the event of heavy weather threatens is

55. Penetrations and openings in watertight bulkheads in a vessel of less than 100 gross tons must

56. Your vessel is damaged with no list,but down by the stern. There is progressive flooding and trim by the stern is increasing. What is the effect on transverse stability after the deck edge at the stern is submerged?

57. What is the ship structure that extends from the engine room to the forward hold which allows pipings to be installed beneath the hold for them to be inspected and repaired at anytime?

58. Which ship has the greatest free surface effect such that the storage of cargo has to be accurately planned?

59. When a ship meets heavy weather and commences heaving and pitching, what is known as the tremendous slamming effect when the fore end re-enters the water?

60. In ship construction, which strength members act to support the decks ?

61. Why is a bulbous bow fitted at the forward of a ship?

62. When is a rudder said to be balanced?

63. What is the important purpose of solid plates known as bulwarks?

64. If a ship will be ballasted to float at draughts of 6.0 M forward and 5.5 M aft, what would be the resulting condition of the ship?

65. The center of volume of the immersed portion of the hull is called the

66. The water in which a vessel float provides vertical upward support. The point through which this support is assumed to act is known as the center of

67. What is termed as the total weight of the ship's hull, machineries, spare parts, boiler water, fresh and ballast including the full weight that can be loaded ?

68. What major type of flooding in a compartment that is completely filled from deck to overhead which have taken place due to venting through an air escape, an open scuttle, or a ventilation fitting, and has no other effect than to add weight at the center of gravity of the ship?

69. What major type of flooding in which an intact compartment is not completely flooded and that the deck on which the water rest and bulkheads that surrounds it remain watertight?

70. Your vessel is damaged and partially flooded. It is listing 12° to port and trimmed 8 feet down by the head. It has a long, slow, sluggish roll. Which action should you take first?

72. When opening a watertight door to check a compartment suspected of flooding, which of the dogs should you back-off first?

73. The water in which a vessel floats provides vertical upward support. The point through which this support is assumed to act is known as the center of

74. For any given ship's displacement, the volume of water displaced must depend upon the density of water. If a ship moves from sea water into river water without change in displacement, what is the effect on the draught?

75. The kind of local stress that is due to the hammering effect of the fore end of the ship head on to the sea in light condition is the