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USCG Safety & Environmental Protection (Deck) (Set 52)
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Which statement about damage control is TRUE?
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30 MCQs #1 Which statement about damage control is TRUE? #2 Your vessel has been damaged and is partially flooded. The first step to be taken in attempting to save the vessel is to __________. #3 The wooden plug fitted tightly in the vent of a damaged tank may prevent the tank from __________. #4 Your vessel has been loaded in a sagging condition. Enroute you encounter heavy weather and notice buckling in the midships deck plating of your vessel. To relieve the strain you could __________. #5 You are fighting a fire in a cargo hold on your vessel. Which action is most important concerning the stability of the vessel? #6 Free communication will adversely affect transverse stability only when the flooded space is __________. #7 Free communication effect is in direct proportion to __________. #8 The greatest effect on stability occurs from loose liquids flowing __________. #9 The most detrimental effect on initial stability is a result of liquids __________. #10 Many vessels are provided with flume tanks, which also have a dump tank located under the flume tanks. In the event the ship is damaged, you could dump the flume tanks into the dump tank which would __________. #11 The percentage of the total surface area or volume of a flooded compartment that can be occupied by water caused by damage is known as __________. #12 A tank with internal dimensions of 40 feet X 20 feet X 12 feet is pressed with fuel oil weighing 54 pounds per cubic foot. What is the weight, in short tons, of the liquid? #13 The horizontal fore-and-aft movement of a vessel is called __________. #14 The horizontal port or starboard movement of a vessel is called __________. #15 The angular movement of a vessel about a horizontal line drawn from its bow to its stern is __________. #16 The vertical motion of a floating vessel is known as __________. #17 Horizontal fore or aft motion of a vessel is known as __________. #18 Horizontal transverse motion of a vessel is known as __________. #19 The vertical motion of a floating vessel in which the entire hull is lifted by the force of the sea is known as __________. #20 Rolling is angular motion of the vessel about what axis? #21 Pitching is angular motion of the vessel about what axis? #22 Yawing is angular motion of the vessel about what axis? #23 Angular motion about the longitudinal axis of a vessel is known as __________. #24 Heave is motion along the __________. #25 Angular motion about the vertical axis of a vessel is called __________. #26 What is NOT a motion of the vessel? #27 The time required to incline from port to starboard and back to port again is called __________. #28 The time required to incline from bow down to stern down and return to bow down again is called __________. #29 The tendency of a vessel to return to its original trim after being inclined by an external force is __________. #30 Addition of weight to a vessel will ALWAYS __________.
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