PROFICIENCY IN SURVIVAL CRAFT AND RESCUE BOAT

Direction : Choose the best answer. Shade the oval that corresponds to your answer
on the Answer sheet provided to you. Do not write anything on this questionnaire
1. On board training on the use of ships life-saving and fire fighting equipment shall be
conducted within how many weeks after joining the ship, if more than 25% of the crew
are new ?
a. Within one week
b. Within two weeks

c. Within three weeks

d. Within four weeks

2 .The life- saving Appliance code requires lifeboat to provide __________ of buoyant
force per person ?
a. 250 newtons
b.260 newtons

c. 280 newtons
d. 300 newtons

3. The command given to the oarsmen to row the boat in astern motion ?
a. Backwater
b. Give way

c. hold water
d. Way enough

4. What is the carriage requirement for portable VHF transceiver n board Ship between
300 to 500 gross registered tonnage ?
a. 2 pcs.
b. 3 pcs.

c. 4 pcs.
d. 5 pcs.

5. Port state authorities boarded you vessel for inspection, one of them ask you to bring
him a drogue, it means that you shall show him the __________.
a. Bailer
b. fishing tackle

c. sea anchor
d. signaling mirror

6. Rescue breathing or Artificial respiration is applied to a casualty when he has:

a. No breathing and with pulse
b. No breathing and no pulse

c. Breathing and pulse

d. Breathing and no pulse

7. A life jacket shall be fitted with a fixed or flashing light with a luminous intensity of
not less than 0.75 candles for a period for a period of at least how many hours ?
a. 10 hours
c. 5 hours
b. 8 hours
d. 2 hours

8. No lifeboat shall be approved to carry more than how many person ?

a. 25
b. 50

c. 150
d. 200

9. The following are actions to be taken when called to survival craft station, EXCEPT:
a. Go to the mustering station and jump overboard immediately
b. Go to the mustering station in an orderly manner
c. Put on plenty of warm clothing
d. Bring and wear you life jacket
10. This line keeps the boat alongside the ship once it reaches the embarkation deck of
the safe boarding of passenger and crew ?
a. Gripe
b. towing line

c. heaving line
d. manual launching

11. A method of launching a survival craft whereby the craft is automatically released
from sinking ship and is ready for use :
a. automatic launching
b. float-free launching

c. free-fall launching
d. manual launching

12. After clearing-off you r sinking ship, float as still as possible In your life jacket to
lessen body heat loss and conserve energy, this technique is called_______________ ?
a. Help Escape lessening posture
b. Heat Escape lessening posture

c. Help Escape lessening position

d. Heat Escape lessening position

13. Every cargo ships davit launched liferaft shall be so arranged that it can be boarded
with Persons within how many minutes ?
a. 3
b. 5

c. 10
d. 30

14. Search the rescue transponder (SART) is a device which is a means of locating the
position of a survival craft at sea, it is working in what frequency ?
a. 9 kHz x-band
b. 9 mHz x- band

c. 9 gHz x-band
d. 9 gHz y-band

15. Rescue quoit is one of the standard equipment of survival craft, what purpose does it
serve ?
a. For fishing
c. for towing a Survival craft
b. For retrieving a person in the water
d. for signaling to attract attention

16. A life jacket is considered a PFD, even wearing it your body may still cool down as
much as 25 times faster in cold water than in air, what does the acronym PFD means ?
A. Personal Float device
c. Protection floating device
B. Personal first device
d. protection for divers device
17. In accordance with life saving appliance code, life-saving appliances shall be painted
or made of highly visible color which is:
a. Dark orange
c. Reddish vivid orange
b. Yellow orange
d. White orange
18. A device used for lowering and hoisting survival craft s from the stowage position
safely to the water;
a. Davit
c. Marine evacuation system
b. Yellow orange
d. White orange
19. A manual that contains information and instruction the use of life-saving appliance on
board a particular ship ?
a. Safety manual
c. Survival manual
b. SMS manual
d. Training manual
20. Proficiency in survival craft and rescue boat belongs to what section of the STWC
code?
a. Sec A-V/1
c. Sec.A-VI/1-2
b. Sec A-VI/1-1
d. Sec A-VI/2-1
21. It specifies details of the general emergency alarm signal, action to be taken by crew
and passengers when the alarm is sounded and how the order to abandon ship will be
given:
a. Crew list
c. Passenger ship
b. Muster list
d. Provision list
22. The general emergency alarm signal is at least seven (7)short blast followed by one
long last on ships whistle, whereas the man-overboard signal is:
a. One (1) long blast on the ships Whistle c. Three (3) long blast on the ships
Whistle
B. Two (2) long blast on the ships whistle d. Four (4) long blast on the ships whistle
23. A helicopter operation is on-going you re wearing a life jacket and a rescue sling
already fastened under armpit, what will you signal the winch operator to hoist up
a. Raise both arms and feet with thumbs up
b. Raise one arm above the horizontal with thumbs up
c. Raise both arms with two finger crossed
d. Raise arms horizontally with the finger clenched and thumbs down

24. While heaving up the lifeboat, you noticed that the winch power was automatically
cut-off when the lifeboat is a foot away from its normal stowage position. Which davit
safety device was activated the cut-off the winch power?
a. Boat winch control
c. Emergency kill switch
b. Davit stop switch
d. Limit switch
25. Recovery of rescue boats in adverse weather is really a hard task due to oscillation
conditions of the mother ship and the boat in the water. Making use of this device will
help you hoist the boat safer and quickly above water :
a. Recovery wire
c. Recovery shackle
b. Recovery strop
d. Recovery block
26. This type of davit is normally used for launching, slewing and recovering rescue
boats and davit -launched life rafts:
a. Free-fall davit
c. Mechanical davit
b. Gravity davit
d. Single-arm radial davit
27. The best position to place yourself in righting-up inverted life raft is to:
a. Face downwind standing astride of the righting strap
b. Face upwind, standing astride of the righting strap
c. Face your sinking vessel and wait till its gone
d. Face on the CO2 bottle and wait for the life raft to upright itself
28. As a part of preventive maintenance against deterioration and for the safe launching
and recovery of lifeboats, davit falls shall be replaced at interval of not more than:
a. 3 years
c. 7 years
b. 5 years
d.10 years
29. While waiting to be rescued aboard a life raft, you have to noticed that it deflated a
little bit, which life raft equipment is to be used to inflate it at once
a.Bellow
c. Rescue quoit
b.Drogue
d. Sponge
30. Pyrotechniques are required to be carried on survival crafts because they are used to
attract attention when you are in need of assistance, which of these pyrotechniques is
more effective to be used during night time, upon seeing a passing ship at the horizon?
a.Hand flare
c. Parachute flare
b.Orange-smoke signal
d. Signaling mirror

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