WorksheetsNavigation and Voyage Planning MCQs
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Just numbers of corrections can be found in the following publications:
Weekly edition of NTM
Annual summary of NTM
Cumulative edition of NTM
Quarterly edition of NTM
A list of all corrections to Sailing Directions can be found in the following publications:
Monthly edition of NTM
Weekly edition of NTM
Annual summary of NTM
Cumulative edition of NTM
A list of all T&P corrections can be found in the publication:
Annual summary of NTM
Weekly edition of NTM
Cumulative edition of NTM
Catalogue of navigation corrections
Corrections to the Admiralty Chart Catalogue can be found in the publications:
Annual summary of NTM
Cumulative edition of NTM
Weekly edition of NTM
Quarterly edition of NTM
The British Admiralty Paper Catalogue does NOT allow you to order publication below:
Raster maps
Vector maps
Routing Charts
Gnomonic maps
The British Admiralty Digital Catalogue does NOT allow you to order
Paper maps
Raster maps
Co-Tidal Atlases
Publication Guide to Port Entry
Permanent correction starts with the following English commands
Erase
Change
Replace
Enter
The below document specify 4 basic elements of Voyage Plan:
FAL Convention
IMO Resolution A893
STCW Convention
MARPOL Convention
Show which element of the Voy Plan is not mentioned among 4 basic according to the resolution:
Information Collection and Verification
Execution of Voyage Plan
Monitoring
Voyage Plan reporting
The Voyage Plan should be carried out in accordance with the conventions
From pilot to pilot stations
From the quay of the port of departure to the pilot port of destination
From pilot to the safe anchorage at destination port
From berth to berth
We devide Sailing Areas into 4 specific types as per Voyage plan
Sea areas
Restricted areas
Open water area
Closed water area
For ocean areas, information for passage plan can be obtained primary from:
Pilot books
Seasonal itineraries in Ocean Passages to the Word
Tide Atlases on the Seas (Co-tidal Atlases)
Sailing Directions
In coastal waters, information for passge plan can be obtained from publications such as:
Sailing Directions
Seasonal routes from Ocean Passages to the World
Mariner’s Handbook
Routeing Charts
Squat is not dependent on the following factor:
Ship speeds in a proportional (linear) manner
Block Coefficient of the ship
Available water under keel in meters
Shape of the seabed (shallows, prismatic canal, dredged channel)
Squat according to Barras' formula has the following coefficient
Ship speed
Ship Speed as square value
Ship acceleration as square value
Speed of ship as square root value
The Parallel Indexing radar technique is used for:
Continuously control the position of the vessel in relation to the plotted track
Making radar bearings on objects on land in order to determine the position of the ship
A technique to determine the distance error on the radar
Measure the distance of a ship to objects on land to determine its position.
The W/O Wheel over is:
The point at which you should start a turn to a new course
A line that crosses the designated route at any angle where you need to change course
A line that crosses the route at right angles, where you need to change course
A line crossing the plotted track at an angle parallel to the new course, when you have your alteration to a new course
No Go areas:
Are plotted everywhere along the route on the ECDIS vector map, where the sounding depths are less than the known dynamic Draft of the vessel
Are plotted on a vector chart only where the ECDIS system does not have a safety contour available for set value and your track crosses the safety contour
Are plotted along the track on a PAPER chart, but only where the officer deems it necessary
They are not plotted on a PAPER chart at all, because it contains all contours and it is easy to distinguish those smaller than the dynamic Draft
The planned turning Radius of the vessel should be:
Any value, does not matter ROT
Dependent on Safe ROT and also available space for your turn due to navigational dangers
Always constant in value regardless of the ROT
Depends only if your plotted turn at WPT is small or large
Assuming that we want to achieve an ROT of a constant safe value (e.g 10deg/min), with a ship speed of 10 knots, the Radius should have value :
5Nm
2Nm
1Nm
0.5Nm
Information of available TSS can be found :
On the general maps
in IMO's Ship's Routing
On any navigation chart
On Routeing Charts
Radio NAVAREA Warnings for any area in the world can be obtained in the following ways:
By subscribing to the email of chosen warning center
In the weekly edition of NTM in Section III (Radio NAVAREA warnings)
By checking individual website of the centre issuing warnings on the Internet
By setting the letter code of any NAVTEX station (from the ALRS) anywhere in the world.
Information about VTS reporting and pilot stations can be found
ALRS Volume IV
Sailing Directions for the area
Volume VI of the list of radio signals
ALRS vol II
Local time information in any country of the world can be found in:
Mariner’s Handbook
Nautical Almanac
Volume II of the List of Radio Signals
ALRS vol V.
We generally do not use these publications to voyage planning
Chart Catalogue
Admiralty List of Radio Signals volume IV (ALRS vol IV)
Tide Tables
Distance tables
Which list of ALRS radio signals may not be on board, as it is not mandatory
Volume I
Volume II
Volume III
Volume V
Initial passage planning is performed on the chart with scale
Any scale available
Smallest scale available
Largest scale available
The World Chart
Detailed passage planning is performed on the chart with scale
Any scale available
Smallest scale available
Largest scale available
General chart
A small scale chart covers
Only port and its approaches
Any small area of the coast
Any large area of a coast
The whole world
When plotting a route on a paper chart or ECDIS:
We mark as many waypoints as possible to make the turns as smooth as we can and the distance of the entire route as small as we can
We apply a minimum amount of waypoints to keep the itinerary as short as possible
We apply such a number of waypoints that the distance and turns are optimal
We allow Auto-Routeing to generate all waypoints.
The elements of the voyage planning for the ECDIS are characterized by:
Both the track and the track limits (XTE) are planned for each section of the road individually
Waypoints cannot be plotted on a navigational obstacle
Only the track and the waypoints are plotted
Track limits (XTE) should has the same value for each leg.
The Weekly Notice to Mariners, Section VIII, contains the following:
Paper and raster maps information
Electronic charts information
Raster charts information only
Vector charts information only
Ship weather routing service centers are:
Mandatory for every ship crossing the ocean
Recommended for Captains
Mandatory to follow their recommendations
Free of charge
The composition of the navigational watch and its schedule is determined by
Chief Officer
Shipowner on the basis of a contract with an Officer
Ship regulations
Captain
TSS or Traffic Separation Scheme in accordance with the 10 MPDM regulation should be crossed:
At a minimum angle to the direction of ship movement in the system
At right angle to the direction of movement of vessels in the system
Traffic separation systems must not be crossed ever
At any angle, provided that we do not interfere with other units in the system
When can you not use the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS):
We will find a shorter route through the Inshore Traffic Zone (ITZ)
TSS must be always follow
If our track is located far enough from the TSS so we do not pose any risk of collision for those ships using the system
If our track lies close to TSS but exactly parallel to the direction lanes
Information about the availability and power of tugboats in the port is available:
In Sailing Direction
From the ship's agent
In navigation warnings
Information about the Ship Rescue Responsibility Zone (SAR area) is available in the publication
IAMSAR tom III
Radio Signal Inventory (ALRS) Volume III
Pilot Book
List of Radio Signals (ALRS) Volume V
The information to call Vessel Traffic System (VTS) is most readable and easy to find if it is plotted/entered:
Directly on the chart/ECDIS in the form of a text description next to the track
Entered in the notes or comments at the nearest waypoint
On the prepared Calling Card attached to the voyage plan
In the Waypoint List in Remarks section of voyage plan
The Current Admiralty Publication list is additionally announced in the weekly edition of nautical news
Once a month
Every six months
Once a year
At the end of March, June, September and December
In the Cumulative Notice to Mariners, a two-digit number appears next to each correction number in bold brackets and indicates:
Page number where the full text of the permanent correction can be found
Weekly edition of Notice to Mariners with a correction
How many weeks this correction is valid
Which version of correction it is
A table with explanation of CATZOC values can be found
In any Sailing Directions
In Mariner’s Handbook NP 100
In Admiralty Publication NP5011 with symbols on maps
In US Chart 1 publication with symbols on maps
CATZOC on a vector map represents a symbol marked with
Number of stars from 1–5
Letters from A1 to D
Number of stars ranging from 2–6
Numbers of stars from 2–6 and/or the letter U
CATZOC on a vector map marked with the letter U stands for
Map with the highest category of confidence
Map with the lowest category of confidence
Map about Unknown category of confidence
Map with Unassessed category of confidence
CATZOC with a category D (two stars) means a position certainty of:
± 20 m
± 50 m
± 500 m
Worse than category C (three stars)
The part of the image screen on the ECDIS filled with vertical bars (called JAIL BARS) means:
The cell does not exist for this area at all
The cell exists, but has not been purchased by the ECDIS operator
The cell has been enlarged beyond its compilation scale by more than 2×
The cell has been zoomed in too much
Permanent corrections are applied with 'Magenta' ink, which indicates the color
Pink
Red
Violet
Graphite
A permanent correction that has been applied wrong should be removed by:
White correction ink
Crossing out the entire patch diagonally with magenta ink
Blurring the touch-up completely with magenta ink
Double parallel magenta deletion of each item
Factors included in dynamic draft
Depth reduction for subsea pipelines
Squat
Error in soundings (depth measurement)
Ship draft measurement in port
The calculation of the "tidal window" is intended to
Determination of the period of time when the tide level is highest
Determination of the time period when the tide level is lowest
Determination of the period of time when height of the tide provides minimum UKC
Determination of the time period with the average tidal value of the day
When plotting a track on the ECDIS and waypoint shows a "bad geometry" error and highlighted in red, then:
Check and reduce the Radius value for two adjacent waypoints
Add one more waypoint to smoother the turn
Ignore the error, the route is still safe to navigate
Bring two adjacent waypoints closer together so that the error disappears
The exchange of information from the pilot to the master shall include the following elements:
The power of thrusters
Type of quay and mooring
Min/Max Speed of Vessel
Propeller side effect direction
The exchange of information from the master to the pilot must include the elements
Quay approach route
Manoeuvring details
Anchor system on the vessel
Height of the tide when transiting
In order for the ship to turn with a Radius of approx. 1 Nm, at the planned speed of 10 knot, the ship must apply a Rate of Turn
10 degrees per minute
10 degrees per second
1 degree per minute
1 degree per second
A vessel altering with Rate of Turn of 20 degrees per minute at a speed of 10 knots will make a turn with a Radius of
10 miles
2 miles
1 mile
0.5 mil
Which of the 4 elements of the voyage plan, according to IMO resolution A893, is the actual plotting and preparing of the plan on charts?
Appraisal
Planning
Executing
Monitoring
Parallel Indexing (P.I) is plotted on the charts when navigation in the following area
Oceanic
Coastal
Pilot
Ice
Clearing Bearings on the charts are referring to:
Highly visible buoys
Objects located at a considerable distance from the planned track
Drying Heights
Objects near the track that give a conspicuous radar echo
Line of No Return on chart
A line on track on which it is forbidden to turn back to the opposite course
Line on track without the possibility for a ship to return
A line on track where a vessel must continue its journey to its destination due to the impossibility of turn back underway
A line on a designated route from which only one-way traffic starts
Which of the given keywords in the fixed correction does not exist
Insert
Delete
Change
Amend
Parallel Indexing is plotted on charts to the object like:
Buoy
Dangerous wreck
Drying Heights
Beacon
The interval of position fixing frequency on a paper map is usually given in the following time intervals
Every 5 minutes
Every 6 minutes
Every 12 minutes
Every 20 minutes
The list of symbols used on raster maps is included in:
Admiralty Paper Chart Catalogue
Mariner’s Handbook
Chart 5011
Chart Legend
The list of symbols used on the vector map is included:
Digital Map Catalog
Mariner’s Hanbook
Publications 5011
When the ENC1 function is called on the ECDIS
After plotting the route on the vector map in ECDIS, you should:
Save your route and go to create voyage plan
Save the route and activate it on ECDIS for monitoring
Perform an electronic Route Check and assess all detected errors on leg of the track
Make a Route Check, then save the route and activate on ECDIS for monitoring
For voyage planning on ECDIS, what is an optimum set of information layers
Base
Standard
Full
Custom
