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USCG Deck General (Set 37)
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You are underway with a tow consisting of six barges containing hazardous chemicals. Which statement is FALSE concerning a cargo information card?
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30 MCQs #1 You are underway with a tow consisting of six barges containing hazardous chemicals. Which statement is FALSE concerning a cargo information card? #2 On many modern tankers, which of the following devices is used to reduce cargo pump leakage to the pump room bilge? #3 Your tow contains a barge carrying carbon tetrachloride. What is NOT required? #4 A loaded hopper barge with independent tanks has a placard, with alternating red and white quadrants, on each side and end. Which statement concerning this barge is TRUE? #5 According to regulations, how many B-II hand portable fire extinguishers are required in the cargo tank area of an unmanned, cargo pump-equipped tank barge while engaged in transferring grade B flammable liquids? #6 How many fire extinguishers, and what type, are required on an unmanned oil barge during transfer operations, if the barge has no cargo pumps aboard? #7 If your asphalt barge has operated more than 12 months in saltwater in the 24 month period since it was last dry-docked, when is it required to be hauled out again? #8 The tankship Northland is loaded as shown in table BL-0023 below. Use the salmon colored pages in the Stability Data Reference Book to determine the hogging numeral. #9 A tank is loaded with 9,000 barrels of gasoline. The temperature of the product is 90°F (32°C), and it has a coefficient of expansion of .0008. What is the net amount of cargo loaded? #10 To determine the pressure and temperature limitations under which LFG is required to be transported on a barge, you should look at the __________. #11 On a barge carrying grade A cargo, who determines where smoking may be permitted during a loading operation? #12 What type of liquid is used in the liquid P/V breaker? #13 While discharging cargo, the cargo tank pressures are falling too low. What can the Cargo Officer do to correct the problem? #14 What should you look at to determine the pressure and temperature limitations under which LFG is required to be transported on a barge? #15 During cargo transfer on an unmanned tank barge, how many portable fire extinguishers are required in the cargo tank area, if the barge has no cargo pumps of her own? #16 Your vessel is taking on fuel when a small leak develops in the hose. You order the pumping stopped. Before you resume pumping, you should __________. #17 When bunkering is complete, the hoses should be __________. #18 If you are bunkering and you close off one tank in the line of tanks being filled, the rate of flow to other open tanks on the same line will __________. #19 Which of the signals listed is required to be displayed at night while bunkering at a dock? #20 Your non-oceangoing vessel is required to have a fixed piping system to discharge oily mixtures ashore. What is required at each outlet of this system? #21 When bunkering at anchorage which of the following signals must be displayed? #22 What is LEAST likely to be used to strip a cargo tank? #23 A precaution you should take before bunkering is to __________. #24 A tanker is loaded with 5,000 barrels of petroleum. The cargo was loaded at a temperature of 70°F, and the coefficient of expansion is .0004. What is the net amount in barrels of cargo loaded? #25 Your ship has loaded 8,000 barrels of gasoline at a cargo temperature of 36°C (97°F). API gravity is 54°. The volume correction factor (VCF) is .0006. You are bound for New Jersey from Ecuador. How many barrels would you expect to unload if the cargo temperature is 55°F at the discharge port? #26 What is TRUE of pressure/vacuum valves? #27 Your ship departed Venezuela for New York, loaded with 10,000 barrels of crude oil, whose average cargo temperature was 30°C (86° F). API is 25°. The volume correction factor (VCF) is .00045. If this cargo is heated to 100°F prior to discharge, how many gallons will you offload? #28 Which statement is TRUE of centrifugal pumps aboard tankers? #29 Cargo pump relief valves are piped to the __________. #30 Your ship has loaded 6,000 barrels of gasoline, at a cargo temperature of 50°F, departing New Jersey bound for Florida. API gravity is 55°. The volume correction factor (VCF) is .0006. How many barrels would you expect to unload if the cargo temperature is 90°F at the discharge port?
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