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USCG General Navigation (Set 3)
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Your vessel's operators send a message that your vessel has been consigned to Voluntary Naval Control of Shipping. The message will refer you to __________.
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30 MCQs #1 Your vessel's operators send a message that your vessel has been consigned to Voluntary Naval Control of Shipping. The message will refer you to __________. #2 The Sailing Directions (Planning Guide) contain information on all of the following EXCEPT __________. #3 How is a safe water mark, that can be passed close aboard on either side, painted and lighted? #4 What are the colors of a mid-channel daymark? #5 How can the accuracy of an azimuth circle be checked? #6 What is published by the U.S. Coast Guard? #7 A spherical buoy may be __________. #8 A chart with a scale of 1:45,000 is a __________. #9 You are underway on course 328°T when you sight a buoy broad on your port bow. You are in the best navigable water if the buoy __________. #10 Under the IALA Buoyage Systems, the topmark of a red and white vertically-striped buoy shall be __________. #11 Under the U.S. Aids to Navigation System on the Western Rivers, passing daymarks on the left descending bank are __________. #12 To measure distance on a Mercator chart between the parallels of LAT 34°30'N and LAT 31°30'N, which 30 mile scale should be used? #13 Your ship received a HYDROLANT advising of a special warning to mariners from the Department of State for ships in the Persian Gulf. You are 400 miles south of, and bound for, the Persian Gulf. What action should you take? #14 In the North Sea area, you sight a buoy showing a quick white light showing 6 flashes followed by one long flash at 15 second intervals. Which of the four topmarks in illustration D031NG below would be fitted to this buoy? #15 In the North Sea area, you sight a buoy showing a quick white light with 9 flashes every 15 seconds. Which of the four topmarks shown in illustration D030NG below would be fitted to the buoy? #16 Which agency publishes the Light Lists? #17 Descending boats, while awaiting their turn to enter a lock, shall NOT block traffic from the lock. They shall be above the lock by at LEAST __________. #18 Under the IALA Buoyage Systems, a cardinal mark may NOT be used to __________. #19 What is NOT a characteristic of cardinal marks? #20 What is TRUE concerning new editions of Light Lists? #21 Port side daymarks may be __________. #22 A bridge over a navigable waterway is being repaired. There is a traveler platform under the bridge's deck that significantly reduces the vertical clearance. If required by the CG district commander, how will this be indicated at night? #23 All of the following can be found on a Pilot Chart EXCEPT information concerning the __________. #24 Under the IALA-A and B Buoyage Systems, a buoy with alternating red and white vertical stripes indicates __________. #25 What is the compass course of a vessel heading NNE? #26 As you enter a U.S. channel from seaward the numbers on the buoys __________. #27 What agency of the U.S. Government issues charts of U.S. waters and Coast Pilots? #28 You are on course 090°T when you sight a flashing white light with a characteristic of VQ(9)10s. You immediately change course to 030°T. After one hour, you sight another flashing white light with the characteristic of VQ. You must pass well __________. #29 The Light List shows that a navigational light has a nominal range of 15 miles and a height above water of 40 feet (12.2 meters). Your height of eye is 25 feet (7.6 meters) and the visibility is 5 miles. At about what range will you FIRST sight the light? #30 Isogonic lines are lines on a chart indicating __________.
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