WorksheetsQUIZ GMDSS
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is the fundamental concept of the GMDSS?
It is intended to automate and improve emergency communications in the maritime industry.
It is intended to automate and improve existing digital selective calling procedures and techniques.
It is intended to provide more effective but lower cost commercial communications.
It is intended to provide compulsory vessels with a collision avoidance system when they are operating in
waters that are also occupied by non-compulsory vessels.
The primary purpose of the GMDSS is?
Allow more effective control of SAR situations by vessels.
Provide additional shipboard systems for more effective company communications.
Automate and improve emergency communications for the world's shipping industry
Effective and inexpensive communications.
What equipment is associated with the land or terrestrial systems?
EPIRB
VHF-MF-HF.
Inmarsat-C.
GPS
What equipment is used in or near the survival craft?
Navtex
Fathometer.
Cospas-Sarsat.
EPIRB.
Which of the following region lies outside Sea Areas A1, A2, and A3?
Sea Areas only apply to Inmarsat footprint areas.
Sea Area A3-I (Inmarsat coverage) and Sea Area A3-S (HF SITOR coverage).
There are no additional Sea Areas
Sea Area A4.
What sea area is defined as being within range of a shore-based MF station that provides for continuous
DSC alerting?
Sea area A2.
Coastal waters.
Sea area A3.
Sea area A1.
What is the frequency range for Medium Frequency?
30-300 kHz
300-3,000 kHz
1,000-10,000 kHz
10-30 MHz
What is the MID?
Mobile Identification Number.
Maritime Identification Digits.
Marine Indemnity Directory.
Mobile Interference Digits.
What is usually the first step for a GMDSS Radio Operator to take when initiating a distress priority
message via Inmarsat?
By dialing the correct code on the telephone remote unit.
By pressing a "Distress Button" or "Distress Hot Key(s)" on the equipment.
By contacting the CES operator and announcing a distress condition is in existence.
By contacting the CES operator using the radiotelephone distress procedure "Mayday"... etc.
What is the purpose of the SART's audible tone alarm?
It informs survivors that assistance may be nearby.
It informs survivors when the battery's charge condition has weakened.
It informs survivors when the SART switches to the "standby" mode.
It informs survivors that a nearby vessel is signaling on DSC.
