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What is safe and unsafe oils ? Safe - Oils having flash point above 60C.
Unsafe - Oils having flash point below 60C. ...
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What is a hatchet in lifeboat and its use ? Hatchet is basically a term used for hammer, it is used to cut/break/free any object which may be entangled to the life boat.
For eg. Cutting of painter wire.
If very small object is ...
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How to check fixed foam fire fighting system for deck on an oil tanker is satisfactory ? As per my knowledge, the fire system can be checked by pressurizing the line to the required test bars with water. As for the foam, samples should be landed ashore for analysis. ...
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What is crash stop ? Inertia Stop
As described above, when the engine of the ship is stopped, the ship will continue moving in the same direction for some more distance due to inertia. Here no astern command is ...
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What is stranding ? Difference between stranding and beaching?
Stranding means when a vessel has run aground, it is accidental. In consequence, the double bottom area of the vessel will probably suffer ...
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Course recorder ? What was your reply for - "how does it look" ? ...
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What is the chart datum to which indian charts are made ? Chart Datum is an arbitrary plane below which low water tide seldom falls. It is a datum to which sounding on a published hydrographic chart are reduced. All the bathymetric contours are referred ...
