Question from seaspan

Captain

1. Would you please introduce your background of education and professional career?

2. What owner/management company have you serviced onboard ship?

3. What’s your vessel’s trading area? Which port did you go and fro? Have you been Australia?

4. What kind of ship management system are you familiar with? (automatic connect with company through satellite e.g. Amos)

5. What kind of cargo loading/discharging/stowage system have you used onboard ship?

6. What GM value do you usually take before vessel departure and arrive at port?

7. What’s your ship’s lashing strength percentage

8. Do you have experience with AMSA inspection in Australia? Which year? What defects have been found?

9. Any incident or accident did you experience during you worked onboard as Captain?

10. What’s the relationship between Pilot and Captain? How do you play the role of Master when pilot on the bridge?

11. How do you carry out the ship’s Inspection? How long do you usually carry out the inspection?

12. What do you focus on your standing orders to navigation officers?

13. How do you prepare the passage plan?

14. How do you control ship’s provisions before? And any problem do you have on this matter?

15. Have you passed the Suez and Panama canal, which year?

C/O  Except 

C/E

1. Alpha lubricator. how to adjust the feeding rate?(by sulphur)do you have the experience of alpha lubricator? How many ships?

2. F.O. how much the sulphur content of the F.O you received? How much is the limit(4.5%)? do you receive the LOW sulphur F.O? how much the sulphur content? Where you use this kind of oil? Do you travel in the SECA zone? (http://www.lueddeke-reedereiagentur.com/news/u-p-d-a-t-e-on-low-sulphur-fuel-oils-in-seca-zones.html ) Did you receive LSDO? How many MT you received?

3. How to check the cylinder lubricator timing?

4. How much times you use to overhaul a unit? Do you work with other crew or only as a supervisor?

5. Who will write the oil record book? Who will operator the OWS? If you know there is no oil in the water, butwhen you use OWS , it alarms always. Can you discharge the water overboard directly?(NO) if the bilge tank level goes up very fast, what you are going to do? Can you overboard the bilge water ? what you are going to do if you find out that there is no space in the bilge tank?

6. What is your daily routine? Do you go done the engine room? When? What you are going to do? What do you do in the morning/evening? Do you check what is the plan of you 2/E is job everyday?

7. What is UMS? What system you experience before? Who will update the PMS?

8. What type of the main engine you experience before? Do you experience B&W? do you experience any difficulty with this type of engine ? what trouble you experience? can you explain it?

9. Do you know puncher valve? What is it use for?(for shut down the engine)do you have trouble with this equipment before?

10. Who will in charge spare parts?

11. What is the interval you make scavenging inspection? Who will join the inspection? Who will check? And what you are going to check?

12. Questions regarding to your experience

13. Do you experience slide type F.O injector? what is advantage of this type of injector?  

14. Do you experience some auto control problem? What you are going to do? How to  find out the trouble?

15. Do you experience the crane? What trouble you experience before?

2nd engineer

1. How can you make maintenance plan? Do you know PMS? Who will update the PMS?

2. How much time you use for overhaul one unit?

3. How many units you overhaul in your last ship?

4. OWS, who will operate the OWS? Always remember we can not pump bilge water overboard directly!!

5. Puncher valve, Do you know puncher valve? What is it use for?(for shut down the engine)do you have trouble with this equipment before?

6. What trouble you face before? Give some examples

7. Do you experience the crane? What trouble you have before?

3rd /4th engineer (few questions due to failure of two candidate)

1. What is your duty as a third engineer forth engineer

2. Boiler water analysis, all the items we check on board. What chemicals we use on board?

3. What temperature we must maintain about the cascade tank/hot well? Why?

4. What type of generator you experience before? Do you overhaul the generator? How to overhaul a generator?

5. What are you going to do if you find a fuel oil pipe leakage?

6. Boiler ignite device, how to adjust? Do you check the boiler internal when you clean the burner? What you are going to check? If the boiler can not fire, what you are going to do? how to clean the burner?

7. How to make the maintenance plan? What type of PMS system you use before

Electrican

1. Do you experience container ship? How many refer you have on board you last ship?  

2. Do you experience some trouble with refer, what kind of trouble normal have about the refer container?

3. Do you have the experience about the crane? What trouble you experience before?

4. Do you have any problem with remote control system? How to detect the problem?

Engine cadets

1. introduce yourself

2. What’s your name?

3. Where were you graduated? How many years you study in you school?

4. What courses did you learn in your university?

5. Do you know some fire fighting equipment in engine room?

6. What type of fire extinguisher we use in engine room?

7. What equipments do fuel oil go through before entering main engine?

8. Can you welding?

9. Why we need the oily water separator on board? And how to use it

10. Where are the bilge come from?

11. Tell me some type of pumps used on board

12. What is the difference between gear pump and centrifugal pump?

13. where we use gear pump/ centrifugal pump

14. How many kinds of boiler? What is the difference between fire tube boiler and water tube boiler?

15. What is the principle of two stroke engine?

16. Why you want to become an engineer?

17. What is the job of you parents? Do you help them? What kinds of job you did before?

18. What is the working principle of turbo charger/purifier/pumps?

19. Enclose space, if your chief officer asks you to enter a tank, what are you going to do?

20. How can you be a good cadet?

21. What are your plans?

Deck cadets

1. How do you get along with others on board?

2. What are your parents working?

3. What course do you have in your school?

4. If there is restricted visibility, how to sound the single?

5. What you are going to do during heavy traffic?

6. What is GPS?

7. If GPS and radar are not working, how can you get you position?

8. How can you make correction to the bearing( compass)?

9. What is ROR?

10. What is PPE? Give some examples?

11. If your ship is very big, what light you must put?

12. Third officer duty?

13. Alphabetic navigation code (a-z)

14. What’s weather phenomena when typhoon coming? Which one is high pressure/low pressure, 1120, 1000 ?

15. Why you want to become a seaman

16. Do you have a plan for next 5 years

17. The calculation of great circle distance and course between this two points ?

18. How to use sextant to fix position, and how to calculate compass error ?

19. Do you smoke/drink?

20. Lights signal in COLREG ? for example: pilot boat, NUC, vessel constrained by draft or vessel restricted in manoeuvrebility?

21. How long you stay in Beijing? Did you go to Forbidden City?

22. Life saving equipment