PY Test 1, Madrid (Ministerio de Transportes) 2023

Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · Convocatoria de noviembre · 40 questions

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• What is our boat’s transverse equilibrium if it stays heeled by an outside force and GM is positive?
• A liferaft’s hydrostatic release works automatically:
• When abandoning a boat, you can in no case:
• Righting a capsized liferaft, to pull most effectively on the straps under it, you should be:
• Sailing in zone 2 we must abandon the boat. Which measure must we NOT take?
• What is a ship’s centre of buoyancy for a given waterline?
• Which two main factors can disperse fog?
• On absolute humidity, mark the INCORRECT statement.
• The period of a wave is:
• The Portugal current runs along the Spanish Atlantic coast heading:
• The resultant vector of course and speed through the water, plus the current’s set and rate, is:
• Official vector electronic charts are:
• In fog in heavy traffic, our boat’s AIS allows us to:
• In sailing directions:
• At a distance of 7.6 miles from Ras El Aswad (Cabo Negro) lighthouse on the leading line of Punta Europa lighthouse with Punta Almina lighthouse, find your position:
• At a point with a charted sounding of 6 metres, we read from the tide tables: High water = 12:10, height 3.3 metres. Low water = 18:20, height 0.40 metres. Which answer is closest to the sounding at 12:30?