List of questions for pre-interviews

You and your family

1. Introduce yourself: what’s your name, where are you from, how old are you?
2. Tell us about your family.
3. What kind of work do members of your family do?
4. Are there any seafarers in your family? What company do they work for? Have they told you
about their work?
5. What’s your hobby?
6. What do you like doing in your free time?
7. Do you do sports?
8. Do you live at home, in the dormitory or rent a flat?
9. When did you get up in the morning? What were you doing? What did you have for breakfast?
10. How did you celebrate your last birthday?
11. Why do you want to be a seafarer?
12. Why did you decide to be a seafarer?
13. Tell about the situations in your life when you had to solve the problems by yourself
14. What is your goal of working as a seafarer?
15. How do you see yourself in 5 to 10 years?
16. What type of vessel would you like to work on? Why?
17. What do you know about Marlow Navigation?

Academy Life
1. How many cadets are there in your group? Are all of them boys?
2. Tell about your duties at the academy.
3. What training facilities are there at the KSMA?
4. What are your favorite subjects? Why?
5. What subject is the easiest / most difficult for you?
6. What did you do at your last lesson of Maths / Physics / navigation / English?
7. Do you have enough lessons of English at the academy?
8. How many lessons of English do you have per week?
9. How do you work on improving/ developing your skills of English?
10. Have you ever talked with native speakers of English / foreigners using English?
11. What special subjects do you study?
12. What did you study in navigation / meteorology / astronomy?
13. Do you know Pythagoras's theorem / Archimedes’ law?

Career Awareness
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a maritime career?
2. What are the STCW requirements to the English language proficiency?
3. What documents are necessary for your shipboard practice?
4. What traits of character should a seafarer possess for effective work on board? Why?
 Geography
1. What world ports do you know? Where are they located?
2. Tell about the world oceans.
3. What channels / canals do you know? What is the difference between them?
4. What are the reasons for constructing artificial waterways?
5. What channel is located between Great Britain and Europe? Do you know the channel that
connects the Black and Mediterranean Seas?
6. Where is the Baltic Sea located?
8. Where is Northern Korea / Singapore / Dubai / Mumbai / Nigeria / France / Sweden located?
9. Name the country the capital of which is Brussels
10. What is a nautical mile? How many metres are in a nautical mile?
11. What is ‘a fathom? How many metres are in a fathom?
12. What does latitude / longitude / equator / meridian mean?
13. What is ETD / ETA?
14. Why do we use knots instead of miles per hour for measuring speed at sea?
15. The ship’s speed is 20 knots. What distance will it cover in 24 hours?
16. Your ship’s speed is 20 knots. What time is required for covering the distance of 6.500 miles?
17. Calculate the distance the ship will cover in 1 hour and 18 minutes if her speed is 12 knots.
18. Calculate the difference between the longitude west of 1350 and longitude east of 1600.
19. How many degrees on the compass card do NNE / SSW / SE / WSW directions have
20. Is there any difference between the commands “10° to starboard” and “010° to starboard”?
21. What would you do if Captain gives the command “10° to starboard”?
22. What would happen to the ship at the command “10° to starboard”?
23. What would you do and what would happen to the ship if you hear the command “22
starboard“?
24. Your ship is sailing from Mykolaiv to Spain. Name all the ship you will cross.

Meteorology
1. What do you know about Beaufort scale?
2. What does the rapid change of atmospheric pressure mean?
3. Where does the wind / do the waves appear from?
4. What is the difference between the true wind and the relative wind?
5. What types of rain clouds do you know?
6. What is a cyclone / anticyclone?
7. How is the cyclone formed?
8. What creates tides?
9. Draw the symbols of cold and warm fronts.
10. How many degrees is NNW?
11. How will you draw low pressure on a weather chart?
12. Tell how winds affect navigation.

Types of Cargoes
1. What are solid bulk cargoes?
2. What are the main properties of solid bulk cargoes?
3. What categories of liquid bulk cargo do you know?
4. What does the term ``break bulk`` mean? Give examples.
5. What does the term ``neo-bulk`` mean? Give examples.
6. What examples of unitized cargo do you know?

Ship arrangement
1. What dimensions are important for a container carrier?
2. What are the differences between a container ship and a tanker in their design?
3. How do seafarers define the location of containers?
4. What equipment is used on the deck? What’s its purpose?
5. What is the difference between Deadweight Tonnage and Gross Tonnage?
6. How are tankers classified?
7. Have you ever worked on a vessel? Can you describe her? What cargo did it transport?
8. What was your general impression of the first day on board the ship?
9. What types of propellers do you know?
10. What do you know about ship theory and construction?
11. Name the ship main dimensions.
12. What are the ship planes? How does he ship’s base plane run?
13. What is the purpose of ballast tanks?
14. Describe the tank arrangement.
15. What types of containers do you know?
16. What are the container sizes? What is TEU?
17. What mooring equipment do you know?
18. What do you know about multipurpose / general cargo ships and their cargoes?
19. What is the most important space on a ship?
20. What types of ship hull do you know?
21. Decipher Ro-Ro. What is its working principle?
22. What is a galley?
23. Draw a ship. Describe the ship parts in the picture.
24. What would you do for maneuvering your ship?
25. What is the Plimsoll mark on ships?

Crew and her tasks

1. What should you be familiarized with on your first day on board?
2. How long was your shipboard practice?
3. What was the trading area of your vessel?
4. What was your rank on board?
5. Did you perform such kind of works as chipping / painting / mooring?
6. Did you take part in mooring operations on the forecastle deck or on the poop deck?
7. What mooring lines do you know? What mooring lines are used at the stern?
8. Have you been to the engine room?
9. Who do you help clean and paint a fire hydrant on board?
10. What are the steps to prepare an area for painting?
11. What kinds of paint do you know?
12. What are Chief Mate’s responsibilities?
13. What documents should you prepare for your first seagoing practice?
14. Is it correct if Captain / Chief Officer tells you to give him all your available documents at your
first meeting?
 Navigation bridge equipment
1. What navigation equipment do you know? / What equipment is there on the navigation bridge?
2. What are GMDSS components and functions? How often should it be tested?
3. What’s the purpose of SART / AIS / EPIRB / GPS / GMDSS / VHF/ Immarsat? How do these
appliances work? What information can be obtained with their help?
4. What is ECDIS? Have you ever used it?
5. How does the radar work?
6. What radars do you know? What formula is used for radar error calculation?
7. What are the methods of getting ship position?
8. How can the ship’s position be tracked with the help of radar?
9. What is the difference between a gyro- and a magnetic compass?
10. Is the magnetic compass affected by magnetic forces?
11. What is a faximile receiver?
12. What do you know about facsimile charts?
13. What radar setting is more appropriate in case of fog?
14. What types of charts do you know?

Personal Safety Aboard

1. What does safety mean? What do you know about safety on board?
2. What safety equipment do you know?
3. What official documents provide regulations for safety aboard ships?
4. What are the general rules for safe movement around a ship?
5. What groups of warning signs are there?
6. How can crewmembers be informed about different types of dangers aboard?
7. What is Muster List/Muster Station?
8. What is BST? What did you learn at that course?
9. What alarms do you know? Describe them.
10. What do you know about PPE? Give some examples of PPE.
11. A crew member has fallen overboard. What are your actions?
12. What is MLC? What does it regulate?

First Aid on Board

1. What are the contents of a regular first aid kit?
2. What steps should be taken on seeing an unconscious person on board?
3. What are possible causes and consequences of poisoning? Do you know what first aid should be
administered in such cases?
4. What injuries can happen on board ship? How should they be treated?
5. Have you ever helped anyone who was injured? What did you do?
6. What steps should be taken in case of nosebleed / nausea and vomiting / shock / burns and
scalds / poisoning / choking?
7. What first aid is recommended in case of fractures?
8. What are the causes for seafarers’ health problems?
9. What are common diseases among seafarers?
10. What disease is number one killer in the seafaring career?
 Emergencies at Sea
1. What emergencies can a seafarer encounter at sea? What does each situation mean?
2. What types of alarms are there?
3. What should your actions be in case of general alarm?
4. How many classes of fire are there? What are they?
5. What are your actions in case of fire on board?
6. What types of fires do you know?
7. What is fire-fighting equipment?
8. What types of fire-extinguishes do you know?
9. How to choose an appropriate type of fire-extinguisher?
10. What are the main requirements to onboard drills?

Life-Saving Appliances
1. What IMO documents on life-saving appliances do you know?
2. What types of personal LSA do you know? Characterize them.
3. What types of group LSA do you know? Characterize them.
4. What is the procedure of launching a lifeboat / free-fall lifeboat?
5. What are the LSA Code requirements to personal LSA?
6. What are the LSA Code requirements to group LSA?
7. What is the lifeboat inventory?
8. Describe a lifejacket / immersion suit.
9. How do a rescue boat and a free fall boat differ?
10. What is the difference between closed lifeboats / open lifeboats / free fall lifeboats?

Maritime Pollution Prevention

1. Who should be responsible for pollution from ships?
2. What is MARPOL?
3. How many pollution types does MARPOL address to?
4. What important regulations are included into Annex I?
5. What is SOPEP?
6. What information can SOPEP contain? Who is responsible for SOPEP?
7. Why is it important to prevent oil from reaching the ship’s railing?
8. How will you act at in case of a shipboard spill?
9. Which MARPOL Annex regulates garbage disposal? What do you know about it?
10. What oil clean-up methods do you know?
11. What is a special zone?
12. How is garbage processed on board?
13. What is prohibited for discharging into the sea?
14. Why should garbage be kept on board? What documents regulate this?
15. How to minimize garbage on board?

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 Запитання, які відносяться до наступних тем програми, але задаються на
співбесідах представників Марлоу Навігейшен з курсантами

1. Напиши слово «Земля» англійською мовою. Прочитай його по буквах, використовуючи

Міжнародний морський алфавіт.
2. Що тобі відомо про системи COSPAS/SARSAT?
3. Що таке SMS код? Чи знаєте ви історію його виникнення?
4. Розкажи про техніку безпеки під час швартових операціях
5. Які мореплавні якості судна?
6. Що значить «судно на ходу»? Які вогні воно виставляє?
7. Які сектори освітлення на судні?
8. Що таке остійність судна?
9. Чим відрізняється статика від динаміки?
10. Що таке статична та динамічна остійність судна?
11. Які основні сили впливають на судно?
12. Чим відрізняється пеленг/курсовий кут/істинний курс судна?
13. Чим відрізняється крен від деферента? У чому їх вимірюють?
14. Що ти знаєш про МППСС? Які правила ти вже вивчив?
15. Що означає комбінація прапорів November + Charlie?
16. Що означає прапор Bravo?
17. Яка денна фігура позначає судно на мілині?
18. Які навігаційні вогні ти знаєш?
19. Ідентифікуй судно за навігаційними вогнями.
20. Назви абревіатури повністю: ARPA, CPA, TCPA.
21. Які види буїв ти знаєш?
22. Які звукові сигнали ти знаєш?
23. Що таке COLREG? Які правила COLREG ти знаєш?
24. Що таке курсовий кут / девіація?
25. Як визначити позицію судна?
26. Якщо гіро- і магнітний компас зламаються, що ти будеш робити?
27. Що таке кидальний кінець?
28. Яка різниця між зональним та місцевим часом?
29. Як змінюється час зі зміною часового поясу?
30. Що таке MCTC, GM, SF, LCF?
31. Який сектор видимості по периметру?
32. Що таке GM та його розрахунки?
33. Що таке період бортової качки? Як можна розрахувати період бортової качки?
34. Що таке кільова качка?
35. Якщо виставити радар у режим «складний рух», що ти побачиш на екрані?
36. Якщо ти бачиш певні вогні з правого борту, відстань 4,5 милі, що ти будеш робити?
37. Якщо відкрити кран з водою, у який бік вона буде обертатися у раковині?