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Marlow Navigation Interview

Personal information

1. What is your name?

2. When were you born?

3. Where do you live? In a flat or a house?

4. Where are you from? What is your native town? / How often do you visit your

home town? How many hours / much time does it take you to travel home?

5. What is your origin/ nationality?

6. How large is your family? / Who are in your family?/ What is about your family?/ Do you have a big family?/ Can you describe your family?

7. Do you have any sisters, brothers?

8. How old is your sister?

9. Are you the only child in the family?

10. Are your parents divorced?

11. Where does your family live?

12. Where does your mother work? /Where do your parents work? / What jobs have

your parents got? / What kind of business does your father have?

13. Who supports you in financial questions? / Do you earn your pocket money?

14. Do you live in the dormitory? How many roommates are there in your room?

15. How many friends have you got? / Do you have friends in foreign countries?

16. How do your friends call you? Do you have a nickname? / How do your

friends scold you?

17. What are your actions in case you see your friends / roommates are fighting?

18. Do you have a girlfriend?/ Are you alone?

19. How did you celebrate your last birthday? How many friends did you invite?/

Do you remember your last birthday? Describe it.

20. What time do you usually get up in the morning? / When did you get up today?

/ When did you do morning exercises?

21. Do you visit church?

22. Have you ever been abroad? / Have you ever visited Europe? / Do you know

something about other nationalities?

23. Have you ever met foreigner?/ Have you ever communicated with a foreigner?/

Have you ever talked to foreigner?

 

Hobbies

1. What do you do in your free time? Do you have a hobby? / Do you have any hobbies? / Do you have hobbies connected with sports?/ What kind of hobby do you have?

2. Do you like fishing?

3. Can you play the guitar?

4. Can you sing?

5. What books do you like to read? What was the last one? What was it about?

6. What was the last movie you saw at the cinema?

 

Sports

1. Do you like sports? What kind of sport do you prefer? / What type of sport do you like?

2. Do you visit any sport sections?

3. What is your position in the football team?

4. What is your favourite football team?

5. What type of cycling do you like? / How many hours/ How far do you ride?

6. Did you try to find the way from your native city to Kherson by bicycle?

 

Computer literacy

1. Do you like working on the computer?

2. Do you have a PC? / What kind of PC do you have? / Do you have a laptop or standard PC?

3. How many hours a day do you spend at PC? What do you use it for? / What do you use the Internet for?

4. What kind of software are you familiar with? / What kind of software do you use?

5. Do you prepare some presentations for lessons using a computer?

6. Do you use any special programs? / Do you use special programs for correcting photos? / Can you install some programs?

7. Are you an advanced PC user?

8. When you start your PC and see the blue screen, what will you do? Will you call someone or do it by yourself? / Can you fix it?

9. Did you hear about responsibility for using piracy software?

 

Technical skills

1. Did you have a job before? / Did you have any working experience in the past or did you enter the academy after school?

2. Have you ever worked with a welding machine? / Do you have experience with welding?

3. Can you drive? / Do you sometimes repair the car?

4. What instruments can you use?

 

Choosing a career

1. Why did you choose to become a seaman? / Where did you get an idea to become a seaman? / Why did you decide to be a seaman?

2. Do you have seafarers in your family? / Are your friends seamen?

3. Who advised you to become a seaman? / Who pushed you to choose the maritime career? / Was it your dream or did someone press you?/ Was it your own decision?/ Who gave you the idea to change your life and to go to the sea?

4. Why do you go to deck instead of engine room as your father?

5. Do you know that every ship is a dangerous place? Are you afraid of this?

6. What position do you want to reach in ten years, and then, later on? / How do you see your life next 10 years?

7. What was the best story you heard about sea life?

8. Are you ready to work on a big ship having OS certificate?

9. What do you want from life?

10. Is your philosophy to be a winner all the time?

11. What have you already reached in your life?

 

Education / Studying at KSMA

1. When did you graduate from school /college?

2. Why did you decide to enter KSMA?

3. Where did you get information about KSMA?

4. Do you like studying?

5. What is the name of your department at the academy? Why did you choose the navigation department?

6. What is the maximum mark you have in the register?

7. Tell me about your group. Who is the leader of it? What is your position there?

8. What is your favorite subject in the academy? / How many subjects are special here at the academy?

9. Where did you start to learn English?

10. What did you do at the last lesson of English? What was the topic? / What were you talking about at that lesson?

11. How many English lessons do you have a week? And daily?

12. What are your favorite subjects besides English? What was the last topic at Navigation lesson? / Do you like navigation studies? / How to calculate ETA?

13. What do you do with charts at the lessons? / Have you ever done the chart correction?

14. What was the last topic in Math / Physics / Navigation / Geography / English? What did you do at it?

15. Have you passed flags? At what lesson did you study them?

16. Why is your lowest mark in Physics?/ How can you explain your bad mark in IT? /How can you explain your low average grade? /What about your marks? / Why Ship Operation is only 4.5?

17. What would you do if someone of your groupmates does not want to attend the lessons? Will you mark him as an attendee? What is your position in this situation?

18. What do you think when one of your schoolmates have arguments? What is your position? How will you deal with them?

19. Why did you enter the Maritime academy? / Why did you choose a maritime career? / Who or what influenced you?

20. Before you entered the Maritime academy, what was your original or first choice course?

21. If different from Maritime course, why did you shift?

22. How do you see yourself 10 years from now in terms of your personal advancement?

23. How were your overall results at school/academy?

24. What special tasks did you hold at school / the academy?

25. Any experience being a leader to your fellows or classmates?

26. Any activities in school or in your community where you've been left to carry-on a job effectively and safely without supervision?

27. What department do you study at?

28. When will (future)/did (past) you finish maritime school? / When will/did you graduate from the college / academy?

29. When do you have your exams?

30. What languages can you speak? / Do you speak foreign languages?

31. Do you have specialized marine education?

32. What is your qualification?

33. What profession will you obtain at the college / academy?

34. What type of diploma did/will you receive? What grade did/will you receive? / Have you got any diplomas and certificates?

35. Did/ will you take any professional courses?

You should mention all the certificates you’ve got!!!

Geography

1. What channels do you know? / What channel is located between English Kingdom and Europe? / Do you know the channel that connects the Black and Mediterranean Seas?

I know such channels as the English Channel, the Bristol Channel, the North Channel, St. George's Channel, the Malta Channel and the Mozambique Channel.

The channel located between the United Kingdom and Europe is called the English Channel. The English Channel is a part of the Atlantic Ocean, and it separates the island of Britain (part of the UK) from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. It is today one of the busiest shipping lanes on the planet. It's approximately 350 miles long, and at its narrowest in the Strait of Dover. It's somewhat shallow, with an average depth of less than 50 meters between Dover and Calais.

The Channel has traffic on both the UK-Europe and North Sea-Atlantic routes, and is the world's busiest seaway, with over 500 ships per day.

The Bristol Channel separates southern Wales from England, and provides easy access to important regional ports. The channel begins on the edges of the Severn River estuary, and (loosely) ends between Hartland Point and St. Govan's Point.

The Channel can be a hazardous area of water because of its strong tides and the rarity of havens on the north Devon and Somerset coasts that can be entered in all states of the tide. Because of the treacherous waters, pilotage is an essential service for shipping.

The North Channel is a narrow strait that separates Northern Ireland from Scotland, and links the Irish Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Glasgow, Scotland, are the most significant regional ports. The entire area is well served by ferry service.

St. George's Channel between Ireland and Wales connects the Celtic and Irish Seas. Rosslare Harbor is now southeast Ireland's main port. Thousands of visitors arrive by ferry in the summer months.

 

The Malta Channel separates the European island of Malta from the southern tip of Sicily. The channel serves as a sea route link to Europe for the Maltese.

The Mozambique Channel is an arm of the Indian Ocean located between Madagascar and Mozambique. The channel is approximately 460 km (286 mi) across at its narrowest point between Angoche, Mozambique, and Tambohorano, Madagascar.

The channel reaches a depth of 3,292 m (10,800 feet) about 230 km (143 mi) off the coast of Mozambique. A warm current flows in a southward direction in the channel, leading into the Agulhas Current off the east coast of South Africa. It is around 1,000 miles (1,600 km) long and the width of it varies from 250–600 miles (400–950 km).

 

The Mediterranean Sea is connected to the Black Sea by the Bosporus Strait, the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles Strait.

The world's narrowest strait used for international navigation, the Bosporus connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara (which is connected by the Dardanelles to the Aegean Sea, and thereby to the Mediterranean Sea).

 

 

What oceans do you know?

I know five oceans. They are, in descending order by area, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic (Southern), and Arctic Oceans. For many years only four oceans were officially recognized, and then in the spring of 2000, the International Hydrographic Organization established the Antarctic Ocean, and determined its limits. Those limits include all water below 60 degrees south, and some of it, like the Arctic Ocean, is frozen.

The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Antarctic Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.

The Atlantic Ocean occupies a basin between Eurasia and Africa to the east, and the Americas to the west. It is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean, to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Antarctic Ocean in the south.

The Indian Ocean is bounded by Asia including India on the north, on the west by Africa, on the east by Australia, and on the south by the Antarctic Ocean.

The Antarctic Ocean (also known as the Southern Ocean, South Polar Ocean and Austral Ocean) comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60°S latitude and encircling Antarctica.

The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic North Polar Region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. Alternatively, the Arctic Ocean can be seen as the northernmost part of the World Ocean.

 

Seagoing experience

1. Have you ever been aboard a ship?

2. What was your first experience at sea? / Did you have any sea going practice?

3. How long were you there? / How many months did you spend there? / How much time did you spend there? / How long have you been aboard?

4. What type of vessel was it? What was its name? What did the vessel carry?

5. What port was it in? / Was the ship sailing or staying in the port? / What was the trading area of your vessel?

6. What was your position aboard the vessel? / Was your position AB or OS?

7. What kind of practice did you have? / What kind of job did you do there? / What kind of assistance did you do there?

8. Describe the ship you had the practice on. What is OM 106?

9. Was the training real or theoretical?

10. How many crewmembers were there aboard the vessel? / How many cadets from KSMA did work there?

11. Were you aboard the vessel 24 hours a day?

12. What about food aboard? Was it OK? Were the cadets / crewmembers satisfied? / Who was cooking for you? / What was the room you have your meal in?

13. What type of work did you do there?

14. Did you perform washing and cleaning operations?

15. Did you perform such an ordinary job as chipping?

16. Did you paint the deck? What are the steps of deck painting? What was the prime colour of the metal after scrubbing?

17. What kinds of tools did you use? / What tools did you use for chipping rust?

18. What kind of protective equipment did you use while painting, scrubbing the deck?

19. What types of safety equipment were there on board?

20. What did you do after discharging?

21. Did you clean the holds?

22. Did you visit the bridge? Was the bridge well equipped? What nautical equipment did you see there? Did you see electronic charts there? Did you have no paper charts on board?

23. Did you get any navigation skills? / Did you steer the vessel? /Did you maneuver the vessel? / Did you stay at the wheel during the practice? / Did you have your own position as lookout?

24. Did you stay on the bridge during towing?

25. Did you participate in drills? / How were drills carried out, e.g. “Abandon the ship”? Did anyone jump overboard? What was your personal duty during the alarm?

26. Did you take part in maintaining safety equipment aboard?

27. What devices did you use?

28. Did you work with VHF?

29. Did you work with ARPA?

30. Did Captain show you how to work with it?

31. Did you participate in mooring operations? / What were your duties during the mooring operations? How many lines did you send from mooring side to coast? / Are you familiar with mooring operations?

32. How many lines did you use during the mooring operation?

33. Did you visit the engine room? / Did you see how it runs?

34. Did you work only on deck or also in the engine room? / Did you assist in some job in engine room?

35. Did you visit a life-boat? / What did you see inside it? / What provision, equipment can you find in a life-saving boat?

36. Where did you keep watch? / Did you keep the gangway watch?

37. Did you assist with the pilot ladder?

38. Did you work with the charts aboard the vessel?

39. What language did Captain use giving orders?

40. Did you perform towing operations?

41. Did you follow the safety rules aboard the vessel? What safety appliances did you use?

 

Crewmembers’ duties

1. What are the duties of the officers? What are the 2^nd officer’s duties?

The chief mate is the head of the deck department. This involves administrative tasks such as scheduling work, quality control, coordinating with other departments, and conflict resolution. The Chief Mate also compiles supply, overtime, and cost control records, and requisitions or purchases stores and equipment. He usually stands the 4 to 8 watch.

The ship's other deck officers, generally a Second Mate and Third Mate, are also members of the Deck Department. Each watch-standing officer is responsible for the unlicensed crewmen on his watch.

The Second Mate takes morning and evening star fixes to determine the ship's position. He is also responsible for maintaining the ship's charts and navigational publications, the ship's gyrocompass, and all navigational gear. He also keeps the log extract for each voyage used by company management as a short form "howgozit" sheet, covering time at sea, time under pilotage, time in port, and types and tonnages of cargoes moved.

The Third Mate will stand 12 to 4 watch, whilst the Junior Officer (if there’s any) will take the 8 to 12 watch. While on duty, they are responsible for handling the ship and fixing its position by shooting sun lines, taking hourly fixes from the satellite navigation gear, and piloting the ship in coastal waters.

 

Describe mooring operation.

My duties in mooring operation are: to prepare all mooring lines on deck, to check mooring equipment if it is in operational condition, to secure a tug line on the bollard if a tug assists in mooring, to send the heaving line ashore, to send a spring line or head line ashore (it depends on situation), to send the rest of lines (head line, aft line, spring line, breast line), to secure the lines on bollard, to operate the windlass and the winches when sending the ropes, to place ratguards on all mooring lines.

 

 

Mean? Can you draw it?

“3+2” means to prepare three head lines, three aft lines, two spring lines on forward and aft station.

‘2+2’ means two head lines, two stern lines, two spring lines on forward and aft stations.

 

5. What are the parts of mooring arrangements?

1.Storage part of the mooring drum – накопительная часть швартового барабана 2. Pulling section of the drum (working part) – рабочая часть швартового барабана 3. Brake band – тормозная лента 4. Gear box – редуктор 5. Electro-hydraulic motor – электрогидравлический двигатель 6. Spurling pipe – труба цепного клюза, цепная труба 7. Chain in the gypsy wheel – цепь в колесе швартового барабана 8. Dog clutch – муфта сцепления (кулачная) 9. Guide roller – направляющий ролик; роульс 10. Warping head – турачка (шпиля, брашпиля) 11. Hatch to chain locker – люк цепного ящика 12. Guide roller, guide pulleys – направляющий шкив 13. Fairlead – приспособление для укладки троса на барабан; киповая планка 14. Chain stopper with security device – стопор якорный цепи с предохранительным устройством 15. Bollard (double) – тумба (двойная)

 

 

Types of vessels

How to activate an alarm?

Alarm systems are installed all over the ship’s systems and machinery to notify the crew on board about the dangerous situation that can arise on the ship. This signal is given audibly by the ship's Master over the Public Address system. It is never given by automatic means or with recorded media.

Requirements on General Alarm Systems are stated in the SOLAS Convention and the LSA Code. It shall be possible to trigger the alarms both via an automatic signal generator or by hand. On the open decks of cargo ships, the signals are triggered by the automatic signal generator and generated by the general alarm system can either be produced by the whistle or by sirens. The sirens shall be located at uniform distances spread over the open deck. It shall be possible to interrupt the driving of the whistle by the automatic signal generator by means of a non-locking pushbutton or a switch or a locking pushbutton. According to SOLAS Ch. 6.4.2 the general alarm system shall be capable of operation from the navigating bridge and also from other “strategic points”. Triggering of the automatic signal generator shall only be provided on the navigating bridge

 

Why do we need life-rings?

In a case of man overboard we need a life ring. A number of life rings (life buoys) depends on the ships length, are positioned around the ship, hooked on the handrails. Attached to these buoys are a floating smoke light and a light signal.

 

How does GPS work?

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a network of about 30 satellites orbiting the Earth at an altitude of 20,000 km. The system was originally developed by the US government for military navigation but now anyone with a GPS device, be it a SatNav, mobile phone or handheld GPS unit, can receive the radio signals that the satellites broadcast. GPS works in any weather conditions, anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day.

GPS satellites circle the earth twice a day in a very precise orbit and transmit signal information to earth. GPS receivers take this information and use triangulation to calculate the user’s exact location. Essentially, the GPS receiver compares the time a signal was transmitted by a satellite with the time it was received. The time difference tells the GPS receiver how far away the satellite is. Now, with distance measurements from a few more satellites, the receiver can determine the user’s position and display it on the unit’s electronic map.

A GPS receiver must be locked on to the signal of at least three satellites to calculate a 2D position (latitude and longitude) and track movement. With four or more satellites in view, the receiver can determine the user’s 3D position (latitude, longitude and altitude). Once the user’s position has been determined, the GPS unit can calculate other information, such as speed, bearing, track, trip distance, distance to destination, sunrise and sunset time and more.

 

What are Admiralty charts?

Admiralty charts are nautical charts issued by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. Over 3,000 charts are available and cover virtually the entire world in various levels of detail depending on the density of traffic and hazards. Large-scale charts often cover approaches and entrances to harbours, medium-scale charts cover heavily used coastal areas, and small-scale charts are for navigation in more open areas.

Charts include: depths (chart datum), coastline, bouyage, land and underwater contour lines, seabed composition (for anchoring), hazards, tidal information ("tidal diamonds"), prominent land features (e.g. church towers), traffic separation schemes, RF direction finding information, lights, and in short anything which could assist navigation.

 

Helm orders

1. Whose order should you follow first in case when a pilot and a master give youdifferent orders simultaneously?

Maritime pilot performs one of the most crucial tasks of navigating the ship through some of the most difficult navigational areas. He is the member of bridge team and his duty is to assist the Master by offering appropriate advice during the ship's passage. I must follow Master’s order as he is the Head of bridge team.

The International STCW Code specifies that the presence on board of a pilot does not relieve the Master from his duties and obligations for the safety of the ship.

 

What is MAYDAY? PAN-PAN?

MAYDAY is to be used to announce a distress message.

PANPAN is to be used to announce an urgency message.

 

Do you know ISPS Code?

Yes, I do. International Ship and Port Facility Security has an objective is to minimize risk of terrorist activity. This Code applies to: the following types of ships engaged on international voyages:

.1 passenger ships, including high-speed passenger craft;

.2 cargo ships, including high-speed craft, of 500 gross tonnage and upwards;

and

.3 mobile offshore drilling units; and

.4 port facilities serving such ships engaged on international voyages.

Company Security Officers (CSO) are appointed:

On a ship the Ship Security Officer (SSO)

For a harbor facility, the Port Facility Security Officer (PFSO).

All ships which are obliged to carry an ISPS certificate, and the relevant harbor facilities have to compile a security scheme:

- to know who is on board or in the facility;

- to control entrances and perform visitor identity checks;

- to control loading and discharging cargo and stores.

Marlow Navigation Interview

Personal information

1. What is your name?

2. When were you born?

3. Where do you live? In a flat or a house?

4. Where are you from? What is your native town? / How often do you visit your

home town? How many hours / much time does it take you to travel home?

5. What is your origin/ nationality?

6. How large is your family? / Who are in your family?/ What is about your family?/ Do you have a big family?/ Can you describe your family?

7. Do you have any sisters, brothers?

8. How old is your sister?

9. Are you the only child in the family?

10. Are your parents divorced?

11. Where does your family live?

12. Where does your mother work? /Where do your parents work? / What jobs have

your parents got? / What kind of business does your father have?

13. Who supports you in financial questions? / Do you earn your pocket money?

14. Do you live in the dormitory? How many roommates are there in your room?

15. How many friends have you got? / Do you have friends in foreign countries?

16. How do your friends call you? Do you have a nickname? / How do your

friends scold you?

17. What are your actions in case you see your friends / roommates are fighting?

18. Do you have a girlfriend?/ Are you alone?

19. How did you celebrate your last birthday? How many friends did you invite?/

Do you remember your last birthday? Describe it.

20. What time do you usually get up in the morning? / When did you get up today?

/ When did you do morning exercises?

21. Do you visit church?

22. Have you ever been abroad? / Have you ever visited Europe? / Do you know

something about other nationalities?

23. Have you ever met foreigner?/ Have you ever communicated with a foreigner?/

Have you ever talked to foreigner?

 

Hobbies

1. What do you do in your free time? Do you have a hobby? / Do you have any hobbies? / Do you have hobbies connected with sports?/ What kind of hobby do you have?

2. Do you like fishing?

3. Can you play the guitar?

4. Can you sing?

5. What books do you like to read? What was the last one? What was it about?

6. What was the last movie you saw at the cinema?

 

Sports

1. Do you like sports? What kind of sport do you prefer? / What type of sport do you like?

2. Do you visit any sport sections?

3. What is your position in the football team?

4. What is your favourite football team?

5. What type of cycling do you like? / How many hours/ How far do you ride?

6. Did you try to find the way from your native city to Kherson by bicycle?

 

Computer literacy

1. Do you like working on the computer?

2. Do you have a PC? / What kind of PC do you have? / Do you have a laptop or standard PC?

3. How many hours a day do you spend at PC? What do you use it for? / What do you use the Internet for?

4. What kind of software are you familiar with? / What kind of software do you use?

5. Do you prepare some presentations for lessons using a computer?

6. Do you use any special programs? / Do you use special programs for correcting photos? / Can you install some programs?

7. Are you an advanced PC user?

8. When you start your PC and see the blue screen, what will you do? Will you call someone or do it by yourself? / Can you fix it?

9. Did you hear about responsibility for using piracy software?

 

Technical skills

1. Did you have a job before? / Did you have any working experience in the past or did you enter the academy after school?

2. Have you ever worked with a welding machine? / Do you have experience with welding?

3. Can you drive? / Do you sometimes repair the car?

4. What instruments can you use?

 

Choosing a career

1. Why did you choose to become a seaman? / Where did you get an idea to become a seaman? / Why did you decide to be a seaman?

2. Do you have seafarers in your family? / Are your friends seamen?

3. Who advised you to become a seaman? / Who pushed you to choose the maritime career? / Was it your dream or did someone press you?/ Was it your own decision?/ Who gave you the idea to change your life and to go to the sea?

4. Why do you go to deck instead of engine room as your father?

5. Do you know that every ship is a dangerous place? Are you afraid of this?

6. What position do you want to reach in ten years, and then, later on? / How do you see your life next 10 years?

7. What was the best story you heard about sea life?

8. Are you ready to work on a big ship having OS certificate?

9. What do you want from life?

10. Is your philosophy to be a winner all the time?

11. What have you already reached in your life?

 

Education / Studying at KSMA

1. When did you graduate from school /college?

2. Why did you decide to enter KSMA?

3. Where did you get information about KSMA?

4. Do you like studying?

5. What is the name of your department at the academy? Why did you choose the navigation department?

6. What is the maximum mark you have in the register?

7. Tell me about your group. Who is the leader of it? What is your position there?

8. What is your favorite subject in the academy? / How many subjects are special here at the academy?

9. Where did you start to learn English?

10. What did you do at the last lesson of English? What was the topic? / What were you talking about at that lesson?

11. How many English lessons do you have a week? And daily?

12. What are your favorite subjects besides English? What was the last topic at Navigation lesson? / Do you like navigation studies? / How to calculate ETA?

13. What do you do with charts at the lessons? / Have you ever done the chart correction?

14. What was the last topic in Math / Physics / Navigation / Geography / English? What did you do at it?

15. Have you passed flags? At what lesson did you study them?

16. Why is your lowest mark in Physics?/ How can you explain your bad mark in IT? /How can you explain your low average grade? /What about your marks? / Why Ship Operation is only 4.5?

17. What would you do if someone of your groupmates does not want to attend the lessons? Will you mark him as an attendee? What is your position in this situation?

18. What do you think when one of your schoolmates have arguments? What is your position? How will you deal with them?

19. Why did you enter the Maritime academy? / Why did you choose a maritime career? / Who or what influenced you?

20. Before you entered the Maritime academy, what was your original or first choice course?

21. If different from Maritime course, why did you shift?

22. How do you see yourself 10 years from now in terms of your personal advancement?

23. How were your overall results at school/academy?

24. What special tasks did you hold at school / the academy?

25. Any experience being a leader to your fellows or classmates?

26. Any activities in school or in your community where you've been left to carry-on a job effectively and safely without supervision?

27. What department do you study at?

28. When will (future)/did (past) you finish maritime school? / When will/did you graduate from the college / academy?

29. When do you have your exams?

30. What languages can you speak? / Do you speak foreign languages?

31. Do you have specialized marine education?

32. What is your qualification?

33. What profession will you obtain at the college / academy?

34. What type of diploma did/will you receive? What grade did/will you receive? / Have you got any diplomas and certificates?

35. Did/ will you take any professional courses?

You should mention all the certificates you’ve got!!!

Перелік типових питань для судноводіїв

Geography

1. What channels do you know? / What channel is located between English Kingdom and Europe? / Do you know the channel that connects the Black and Mediterranean Seas?

I know such channels as the English Channel, the Bristol Channel, the North Channel, St. George's Channel, the Malta Channel and the Mozambique Channel.

The channel located between the United Kingdom and Europe is called the English Channel. The English Channel is a part of the Atlantic Ocean, and it separates the island of Britain (part of the UK) from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. It is today one of the busiest shipping lanes on the planet. It's approximately 350 miles long, and at its narrowest in the Strait of Dover. It's somewhat shallow, with an average depth of less than 50 meters between Dover and Calais.

The Channel has traffic on both the UK-Europe and North Sea-Atlantic routes, and is the world's busiest seaway, with over 500 ships per day.

The Bristol Channel separates southern Wales from England, and provides easy access to important regional ports. The channel begins on the edges of the Severn River estuary, and (loosely) ends between Hartland Point and St. Govan's Point.

The Channel can be a hazardous area of water because of its strong tides and the rarity of havens on the north Devon and Somerset coasts that can be entered in all states of the tide. Because of the treacherous waters, pilotage is an essential service for shipping.

The North Channel is a narrow strait that separates Northern Ireland from Scotland, and links the Irish Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Glasgow, Scotland, are the most significant regional ports. The entire area is well served by ferry service.

St. George's Channel between Ireland and Wales connects the Celtic and Irish Seas. Rosslare Harbor is now southeast Ireland's main port. Thousands of visitors arrive by ferry in the summer months.

 

The Malta Channel separates the European island of Malta from the southern tip of Sicily. The channel serves as a sea route link to Europe for the Maltese.

The Mozambique Channel is an arm of the Indian Ocean located between Madagascar and Mozambique. The channel is approximately 460 km (286 mi) across at its narrowest point between Angoche, Mozambique, and Tambohorano, Madagascar.

The channel reaches a depth of 3,292 m (10,800 feet) about 230 km (143 mi) off the coast of Mozambique. A warm current flows in a southward direction in the channel, leading into the Agulhas Current off the east coast of South Africa. It is around 1,000 miles (1,600 km) long and the width of it varies from 250–600 miles (400–950 km).

 

The Mediterranean Sea is connected to the Black Sea by the Bosporus Strait, the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles Strait.

The world's narrowest strait used for international navigation, the Bosporus connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara (which is connected by the Dardanelles to the Aegean Sea, and thereby to the Mediterranean Sea).