Wilson's Orals Questions

Name: Wilson Stany D'souza

Date of Oral Exam : 10-11-2008

Surveyor : Mr D A Thorington.

Place : MCA Southampton, UK

1.CDC and Passport checks.

2.What you know about scavange fire?

3.Symptoms and How it occures and what are the prevention and what will you do after scavage fire?.

4.what kind of a fire extinguisher media you will use?.

5.If fixed fire fighting is not installed how will you tackle it?.

6.When you take engine room round ,in the purifier room what are the checks you make?.

7.Why the back pressure is set? If not what will happen?

8.What you know about enclosed space entry?

9.What is oxygen limit to enter the the enclosed space?.

10. The person who entered enclosed space, shouts for help what you will do?

11.What all the checks you make on the turbocharger?

12.If one of the main bearing high temperature alarm comes, what is the cause?.

13.What happens if it persists?

14.What will you do if the oil mist detecter alarm rings?

15. Any other safety features in on the cranckcase?

16. How does the relief vale work?

17.If the relief valve gets stuck and does not come back into position, what will happen?

18. In case of explosion in the crankcase what you will you do?.

19. If there is any seizure , how will you come to know?

20. Tell me what L.O.and F.O.pessures and temperatures of M/E are mantained on your ship?

21. From the bilge well where will you transfer?

22.How does the OWS work?

23. Starting procedure of OWSand regulations?.

24.What are the indications you will find incase of bilge pump suction filter chokes and when it sucking air?

25.Tell me boiler gauge glass blowdown?

26.After blowing down if you find there is no water found in the Gauge glass what will you do?

27. At what pressure is the safety valve is set?

28.Generator starting and parlelling?

29. You said the L.O.priming pump, and after starting how the L.O.is supplied?

30.What is earth fault and how will you recognise it?

31. How will you measure the load?

32.What was the voltage and frequency on your ship?

33. When taking round what are the checks you make in the steering gear room?

34.What kind of a fire detection system you will find onboard?

35.How does the smoke detectors work?

36.How will you test them?

37.Which kind of fixed fire fighting installatios where there on your last ship?

38. Can you explain me how the hyper mist system works?.

39.If the hyper mist is released in the purifier room , will you enter the purifier room for extinguihing the fire with other extinguishing media?

40. How will you test the CO2 alarm?

41. How will you handover the watch?

Result - PASS

Srinivasan's Orals Questions

Students Name : Srinivasan Alagirinathan

Course : E.O.O.W.

Surveryors Name :

MCA : Aberdeen, 24th Oct. 2008

1. Documents checks.

2. Company history and routes sailed on.

3. Talks on Experience and types of ships sailed on.

4. Taking over Engine Room Watch as EOOW.

5. What safety device do u have on the Air Vents?

6. What was your Economiser Steam Pressure?

7. Steering Gear checks before departure.

8. How do you burn waste oil in the incinerator and how often do u burn rags?

9. What would you do if the Sewage plant was on Manual mode?

10. What are the causes for single unit exhaust high temperature and then for all units?

11.What is the temp. diff. between in and outlet of Air Cooler?

12. What is the type of manometer in air cooler and what is the normal pressure difference?

13. What is the cause for Fresh Water Generator shell temp high and how much is your FWG shell temp?

14. How would you check if the stern tube functioning perfectly?

15. How much is the Starting Current of a motor,How can you reduce starting current?

16. What are the safeties on an Air compressor?

17. Paralleling of generators.

18. Bunkering Procedures.

19. How do you set the desludge timer?

20. What is the cause of Purifier Over flowing?

21. How high temperature of oil affects Overflow?

22. If all bunker tanks are full which tanks would you use and why?

23. If all tanks are kept half what would happen?

24. What is Free Surface Effect?

25.What is Bilge keel and shear strake?

26.What is Risk Assessment?

27. What is SOPEP Plan?

28. What are the procedures for enclosed space entry?

29. In tankers ,what is the relations of IG plant and Boilers?

30. What is the limit of the O2 content in IG and how do u obtain it?

31. What is air fuel ratio?

32. What is the action if the deal seal low level alarm activates?

Time taken: 70 mins. Result : Pass.

Rajesh's Orals Questions

Student Name: RAJESH KUMAR

Course: EOOW

Surveyors Name: Mr.Peter Sara

MCA: Southampton, 15TH SEP 2008

1 TELLME ABOUT TAKING OVER WATCH.
2 TELL ME ABOUT YOUR SHIP.
3 TELL ME ABOUT CONTROL ROOM DOCUMENTS.
4 PURPOSE OF OIL RECORD BOOK.
5 ENTRY IN OIL RECORD BOOK.
6 TELL ME OILY WATER SEPERATOR OPERATION.
7 OILY WATER DISCHARGE WATER CAN YOU SEE OIL IN THAT.
8 ENGINE STARTING FROM COLD.
9 JACKET WATER TEMPERATURE.
10 PARALLELING OF GENERATOR.
11 HOW YOU WILL FIND EARTHFAULT.
12 HOW RECTIFY THE PROBLEM.
13 YOUR 440V PANEL HAVE EARTHFAULT WHAT YOU WILL DO.
14 ANY SWITCH YOU PUT ON BEFORE PRALLELING.
15 IF YOU SEE IN CONTROL ROOM NO VOLT IN VOLTMETER TELL ME THE REASON.
16 TELL ME HOW GENERATOR WORKS.
17 WHEN YOU WILL CLOSE BREAKER IN AFTER SYNCHRONISING WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH INCOMING GENERATOR.
18 WHY SYNCHROSCOPE TURNS IN SLIGHTLY FAST DIRECTION.
19 TELL ME MAIN SWITCH BORD SAFETIES.
20 HOW MAGNETIC FIELD IS GENERATED IN GENERATOR.
21 WHEN YOU WILL CLOSE THE AIR VENT OF BOILER TELL ME PRESSURE.
22 BLOW DOWN GAUGE GLASS.
23 FLASHING UP BOILER AFTER MANTAINENCE.
24 HOW MANY GAUGE GLASSES IN BOILER.
25 HOW MANY MINUTES YOU WILL PURGE THE BOILER FOR FIRST STARTING.
26 GAUGE GLASS WATER LEVEL FOR FIRST STARTING LEVEL (IN CMS.)
27 WHY WE OPEN DRAIN VALVE OF STEAM LINE.
28 WHY INDICATOR COCK OPENED BEFORE STARTING
29 IF WATER COMING FROM INDICATOR COCK TELL ME REASON.
30 TELL ME IN CHAINBLOCK WHAT IS IMPORTANT THING.
31 BUNKER PROCEDURE.
32 TELL ME BUNKER CHECK LIST.
33 CODE OF SAFE WORKING PRACTICES.
34 HOW YOU WILL ADJUST FREQUENCY OF BOTH RUNING GENERATOR.
35 ENCLOSED SPACE ENTRY PROCEDURE.
36 MAIN ENGINE SAFETY AND INTERLOCK.
37 FIXED FIRE FIGHITING SYSTEM.

Duration: 1 Hour Result: Pass

Lohani's Orals Questions

Name : Chandra Shekhar Lohani
Course : EOOW
Surveyors Name: Mr. Peter Sara

MCA : Southampton,22/Sept/2008
Time : 11.45 am

1. Documents Checks, Passport, CDC, TAR Book.(Particularly Record book and Tasks)
2. General talks on what kind of ships you have done, tonnage, power.
3. Taking over the watch….full round of the engine room.
4. What important documents will you find in the Control room.Why do we have the log book?
5. What will you do after finishing pumping out bilges?(Entry in Oil Record Book)
6. Who all can sign in the Oil Record Book?
7. How will you pump out OIL overboard?(cannot pump out oil)
8. Before starting up Boiler from Cold what documents are required to be checked?(ensure all work permits have been cancelled)
9. Procedure to flash up boiler from cold.What is water hammering?
10. Boiler Safeties.
11. What will you do if you find the boiler Safety valve leaking?
12. How will you come to know if there is a leak in the steam heating coil of Fuel oil Tank? (observation tank)
13. Main engine cold start.
14. If while blowing through you see oil coming out of one of the indicator cocks…what could be the reason?
15. Take generator onload.(Generator Already started)
16. If both generators are running in parallel and frequency of one generator is higher than the other......what will you do?
17. Generator Trips.
18. What type of fire extinguishers do you have onboard your ship?
19. What is DCP?
20. What is ISM?
21. What is COSWP?Safety Signs and symbols.
22. High main bearing temperature alarm of main engine,what will be your action?
23. Action in case of big fire in the engine room .
24. Prepare to receive bunkers.
25. Enclosed space entry all aspects.

Time taken - 30 mins Result- Pass.

Tanmoy's Orals Questions

Name : Tanmoy Mitra
Course : EOOW
Surveyors Name: Mr. D.A.Thorington.
MCA : Southampton,08/Sept/2008
1) Describe your ship.
2) Describe the Machinery onboard.
3) Describe taking over watch procedure.
4) What type of extinguisher is used fro MSB fire?
5) What special features on MSB enables application of this extinguisher?
6) Action to be taken when MSB Fire cannot be bought under control

7) Indication ,Causes,and action of scavenge fire affecting one unit.

8) What steps are taken to control scavenge fire affecting more than one unit?

9) After a few days of successfully tackling a scavenge fire,a M/E unit shows high bearing temperature,followed by an OMD alarm,What condition is generating in the engine?

10)Cause and action to be taken to curb the occurance of a crankcse explosion.

11)Routine Checks on a Purifier

12)Causes of over flow

13) Steering gear pre-departure checks

14) What effect will air in the system cause?

15) What are the features checked in a Steering gear drill and what is the frequency of occurance?

16)Procedure for pumping out machinery space bilges

17)How to test for the correct functioning of the 15 ppm monitor?

18)Regulations for discharge

19)Bilge level not going down

20)Centrifugal pump not taking suction

21) Unexpected Bilge level rising,Actions to be taken

22)Alternator Engine starting procedure

23)What parameters are to be checked?

24)One unit showing Low Exhaust temperature,Reason

25)How do you test an injector?

26)Synchronising generators.

27)How is load sharing affected?

28)Safety trips on the MSB

29)Describe the preferential trip giving the sequence of load shedding.

30)How to start Air Compressor in Manual mode?

31)Reason for draining Air bottles.

32)Boiler Routine Checks.

33)Starting up Boiler from cold.

34)Safety trips on Boiler.

35)Reasons for Pre-purging of Boiler.

36)Procedure for blowing through the gauge glass.

37)Actions to be taking is gauge glass is showing low water level.

38)How will you release excess steam pressure from the boiler?

39)At what pressure is the Boiler Safety Valve set.

40)Checks to be carried out on the Energency generator.

41)What load is the Emergency generator automatically supposed to take up.

42)What is the ISM code?

43)How is it implemented on the Ship?

44)Who is the DPA ?

45)What are his functions?

46)Checks before CO2 flooding?

47)Procedure for re-entry.

48)What is COSWP?

49)Checks before enclosed place enrty?

50)Dangers present in enclosed space.

51) What are the MSNs?

Time taken - 50 mins Result - Pass

Awanikant's Oral Questions

Name : Awanikant Bhartiya
Course : EOOW
Surveyor : M. Turrek
MCA: Southampton, 01-09-2008


1) Tell your watch round
2) What are PPEs
3) What will be the pressure of HP, LP and LO in A/C compressor
4) What type of refrigerant did you use on your ship
5) What are the colors of exhaust you will find on funnel and explain the cause?
6) What is the speciality you will find in lighting arrangement in acetylene room?
7) What will be the minimum temperature of furnace in incinerator and why?
8) What will be the temperature and pressure of fuel oil in boiler?
9) If you see one gauge glass is full of water and another is half filled, what will you do?
10) How will you physically blow through the gauge glass?
11) What type of fire fighting equipment you will find on boiler platform?
12) Why steering room is separated from engine room?
13) What are the steering checks?
14) If hot work is going on in the workshop, what are the things you will checks?
15) On generator what will be the temp. and pressure of FO, LO, air and cooling water?
16) What is the specialty you will find in the service settling tank draining system?
17) How will you check lube Oil storage tank?
18) Why spring loaded valves are fitted in the gauging system?
19) What should be the temperature of fuel oil for main engine?
20) What should be the vacuum and sea water inlet and outlet temperature difference in FWG?
21) How are crosshead bearing lubricated?
22) What are the checks you will do in control room?
23) How will start a generator and parallel it with running generator?
24) What are indicator cock and its function?
25) While blowing through, water comes through indicator cock. What will you do?
26) How will you unload a generator?
27) Why we off load a generator before zero?
28) What safety device is fitted to avoid motoring effect of alternator?
29) Taking all safety concern, how will you overhaul a big size air compressor?
30) How will you isolate the motor, if there is no locking system provided (consider about older ships)?
31) What is the frequency of lifting equipment checks?
32) What will you checks on wire straps?
33) What are the things you will check on piston?
34) How will you check piston ring clearance?
35) What are the indications of overheating on bearing?
36) How will you check bearing shell?
37) What should you do to minimize the fire risk in engine room?
38) What will you do if there is a small fire in engine room?
39) What will be your action, if fire becomes large?
40)What was the fix fire fighting system on your ship?
41) What are the fix fire fighting systems?
42) Why CFC (halon) type fire extinguisher is banned?
43) What will be your action in case of engine room flooding?
44)If C/E is not available, will you operate bilge injection valve?
45) What are the regulations for bilge overboard from engine room?
46)What are the entries you will make in oil record book?
47) What are the things that will minimize the oil pollution risk in engine room?
48)What is COSWP and why it is helpful?
49)What are M-notices?
50) What is ISM?
51) What is SMC?
52) What is MARPOL?
53) What is SOLAS?
54) How intermediate shaft bearing lubricated?

Time taken - 60 mins Result - Pass

Rupesh's Oral Questions

Name : Rupesh Kumar
Course : EOOW
Surveyors Name: Mr. R.M. Paddock
MCA : Southampton,01/Sept/2008

1) Machinery on board ship.
2) What type of ship it was?
3) During watch, what you will check on main engine cylinder top?
4) Indication of scavenge fire and actions to be taken.
5) Action when OMD alarm sounded.
6) Procedure for taking over watch.
7) Procedure for handing over watch.
8) If your reliever is drunk, will you hand over the watch?
9) Which type of fire extinguisher will you find on the boiler platform?
10) Procedure for boiler gauge glass blow through.
11) Boiler trips.
12) Pre-departure steering gear checks.
13) Regulation for rudder movement.
14) Emergency generator and emergency fire pump routine checks and testing.
15) Paralleling of generator and off-loading.
16) If voltage will not same, what will you do?
17) Alternator trips.
18) Preferential trips order.
19) In generator, exhaust temp of one unit is rising. What could be the cause?
20) What type of bilge pump did u have on your ship?
21) You have to transfer bilge from bilge well to bilge holding tank what will be the procedure? And where and what you record you will maintain?
22) Bilge water pumping out regulation.
23) Suppose you are transferring bilge well to bilge holding tank but level of bilge well is not going down what is the cause and what you will check.
24) If your bilge pump is of centrifugal pump how you will start the pump and before starting what you will check.
25) After stopping transfer what you will check.
26) Engine room is flooded what will be your immediate action.
27) On electrical fire which type of fire extinguisher will you use.
28) On oil fire which type of fire extinguisher you will use.
29) Disadvantage of DCP extinguisher.
30) What precaution should be taken while using co2 extinguisher.

Time Taken -30 mins Result : Pass

Don's Oral Questions

Name: Don Putharickal
Examiner: P. Fairbrother
Duration: 1 Hour
Result: Pass
1.Describe your ship.
2. Tell about machineries onboard ship.
3. Watch routine fron top till control room.
4. What is the purpose of logbook.
5. What all things you check in control room.
6.What do you check on funnel. What would the ideal colour of exhaust be from the funnel
7.What is the cause for water to be present on steering gear bilges. Sketch & show how the water is leaking from rudder to bilges.
8. What should be the temperature to be maintained for D.O setl & Service tank.Why do you drain tanks.
9. What all parameters to be checked in purifier.
10. What is the cause for up normal rise in engine oil sump. How do you differentiate whether it is water or fuel oil contaminants. What test you will do for confirming it. How this leakage are caused.
11. What is earth fault? How you will identify it. What are their effects if there is a earth fault.
12. Explain paralleling of generator which is already started. If synchroscope is running in slow direction what are its causes. If it is in fast direction what should be speed. Why you are closing ACB in clockwise slow direction.
13. What all things you check on control panel in ECR.
14. What all protection are there for alternators control panel. What is reverse power trip & preferential trip. What is the order shedding out load generally during preferential trip.
15. Starting up boiler procedure from cold? What is the duration of pre-purging.
16. What all test are carried out on boiler water. What are values for chlorides, Alkalinity, ph value to be.
17. Procedure for carrying out boiler blow down. What should be the duration.
18. How do you blow down boiler guage glass. What should be level in normal condition.
19. main engine cold start. Why do you keep sump oil warm. How the temp maintained before starting.
20. After your ship departed from port how you will identify there starting air leakage.
21. What are causes of air line explosion.
22. How much should be the normal ME lo pressure & ME Exhaust.
22. tell me about fire extinguishers onboard. Its content.
23. If there is a small oil fire what are you are actions. How to operate the foam extinguisher. After extinguishing how much time you will monitor it. If it is a big fire in the engine room and I have applied foam after how much duration I will have to make a entry.
24. What was your role as a cadet in fire drill & Abandon ship drill.
25. Engine room flooding, describe your actions.
26. Procedure for starting O.W.S
27. Marpol Regulation governing the discharge.
28. If OWS pump not taking suction. What would be the reason.
29. What is ISM, who is the person responsible ashore. From where you will be able to find who is your DPA.
30. If your 2nd engineer ask you to carry out enclosed space inspection. What are the action to be taken.
31. From where you can find the precautions to be taken during entry.
32. How do you check the enclosed space atmosphere is safe or not.
33. how do you check the oxygen meter working safely. What should be the minimum o2 content for entry. What should be normal content of 02 in open atmosphere.
34. What is COSWP. Where are its location.
35. What causes for scavange fire. What are the indication for scav fire.
36. How does an oil mist detector work?
37. Mode of conveying information by MCA to sea farers.
38. What are actions you will be taking while transferring fuel from DB to setl tank.
39. Reason for maintaining fuel oil temperature.
40. Procedure for changing level guage from automode to manual .
41. What are your action on seeing a person lying on electric motor.

Ashutosh's Oral Questions

Student Name: Ashutosh Shah
Course: EOOW
Surveyors Name: Mr.Peter Sara

MCA: Southampton, 11th Aug 2008


1. Documents Checks, Passport, CDC, TAR Book.
2. General talks on what kind of ships you have done, tonnage, power. 3. Taking over the watch….full round of the engine room.
4. Bottom platform checks.
5.While taking over watch you see the aft bilges are full….you go up to the ECR inform the Duty Engr the bilge level is full….he says there’s no bilge alarm on the panel which means the bilges are low……what’s your action as taking over engr.
6. If the ship is old what could be the problem… (Bilges full but no alarm).
7. What is the one important equipment that’s connected to your bilge system?
8. Why do u have the OWS?
9. Chief Engineer has asked you to pump out the Bilge tank….what’s your duty?
10. Once you have finished pumping out ….what’s your duty?
11. If Chief Engr fills the Oil Record book how anyone else will know that you have carried out the pumping operation?
12. Ship is in dry dock…..work has been carried out on you main engines……prepare the main engine to sail.
13. What kind of temperature would you maintain of the jacket water?
14. Once all systems have been started (Water, FO, LO) what would you do further?
15. Why do u turn the engine on turning gear?
16. If while turning your engines on turning gear you see oil coming out of one of the indicator cocks…what could be the reason?
17. Ship as usual is in dry-dock…..work has been done on your boiler…..you have to start it up....how will you proceed?
18. How much water would you fill up in your gauge glasses first up and how long will you purge the furnace?
19. Reason of filling up to that level?
20. You now want to flash up the boiler….what valves would you leave open and what valve would remain shut?
21. When will you close the Air vent valve?
22. How much pressure would there be in the Boiler at that time?
23. What Meters/Gauges do u have on you main switchboard?
24. Load in is what unit?
25. What type of trips did you have on your Main Switch Board?
26. What is Reverse Power?
27. Is there something like Reverse Current?
28. You have started up you generator …everything’s fine…..you go to take on load…..there’s no voltage for the incoming generator…..reasons? (Excitation is the key word here.)
29. Okay now that you have voltage and everything does fine…..take the generator on load…..procedure for synchronizing?
30. Once you close the ACB of the incoming generator, what actually happens?
30.1 What is preferential trip?
30.2 What machinery’s are tripped?
31. You need to lift up a pump motor….what checks will you do on the lifting gear?
32. What one piece of equipment ensures that the Fuel oil is fit to be burnt in the main engine? (Viscosity Controller)
33. What one piece of equipment ensures efficient working of an Air compressor? (Compressor Valves)
34. What type of Valves are they? (Plate type)
35. How would be open steam to a plant?
36. Why do u need to drain the water?
37. What is Water hammer?
38. What would happen if water hammer occurs?
39. What do u know about the Code of Safe Working Practices?
40. Whats the one important document that you have in the Control room?
41. Why do u have the log book?
42. How would you prepare to receive Bunkers?
43. What happens in a Pre-Bunker meeting?
Time taken- 40 mins. Result-PASS
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Introduction

Dear Friends,
I would like to introduce myself as Ashutosh Shah, appeared for EOOW at Warsash Maritime Academy,Southampton.Further ,I would take the pleasure of starting a new trend that would provide forthcoming students with some sort of idea as to what kind of questions that could be asked for the orals.
We did not have any such set of questions and we had to rely on the experience of our seniors and are very thankful to them.
I would request anyone to spare a few moments to please continue what I’m going to start.
If this manages to reach any of our superiors or people who are appearing for their Seconds or Chiefs, their contribution would be highly appreciated.
I wouldn’t like to keep blabbering with instructions but just before I end I would request everyone to mention the surveyors name and location of MCA.
Please try and circulate this to as many aspiring engineers as possible and help them.
Best Regards,
Ashutosh Shah.
(ashutoshshah2004@yahoo.com)

(P.S.-I sincerely wish to see this circulating a few years down the line whilst I’m appearing for my Seconds n Chiefs.)