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.)