PER Test 2, Madrid (Ministerio de Transportes) 2024

Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · Convocatoria de junio · 45 questions

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• The valves below the waterline, fitted inside the hull to let seawater to the boat’s systems, are called:
• A boat’s maximum displacement is reached when she:
• The topsides (“obra muerta”) are:
• The anchor bend (vuelta de rezón) is used to:
• Before going to sea, make sure that:
• In heavy weather in a motor boat, with the sea on the bow and little way but enough to steer, we are:
• When contacting Salvamento Marítimo for a distress call, you should never:
• On a leisure boat you must carry proof of compulsory civil liability insurance. If the authorities ask and it is not on board, the policyholder must prove it is in force within:
• Outside special areas, discharge of food waste that has passed through a comminuter or grinder is allowed:
• Under way, the nearest mark to starboard is a green conical buoy. This means the boat is:
• The topmark of the east cardinal mark is two black cones:
• Isolated danger marks are:
• Aboard a motor boat on course 359º, another boat steers the opposite course 179º with risk of collision. How is this head-on situation resolved?
• In restricted visibility we hear one prolonged blast at intervals of not more than two minutes. Under Rule 35, it is:
• Under Rule 2, responsibility:
• At night entering port by a channel, we see ahead a boat showing sidelights and, high on the mast, a white light over a red one. It is:
• To “templar” a line means:
• When can we lose steerage on a boat?
• After an accident causing first-degree burns over 25% of the body, with no inhalation injury, you must:
• If you must abandon a boat and float in the water:
• Northern-hemisphere depressions are characterised by:
• The central cone-shaped piece of a nautical compass, made so the support point is above the centre of gravity for stability, is called:
• Sailing, to fix our position relative to a coastal point we use the hand bearing compass on board. The reading we get directly is:
• Ship’s clock time is:
• Steering compass course 297º (variation 4º W, deviation –2º), you simultaneously take relative bearings of 275º to Cape Spartel lighthouse and 189º to Punta Malabata lighthouse. What is your position?
• On 29 June 2024 at 10:35, you fix your position with Da Cabo Roche = 011.5º and Da Cabo Trafalgar = 085.5º (deviation –1.9º throughout). Find the compass course and ETA at 6 knots to a point 3 miles due South of Barbate pier red light:
• On 29 June at 11:30 on Ra = 208º (Ct = +2º) along the Punta Europa–Punta Almina opposition with M = 88º Starboard to Punta Carnero, you alter to Ra = 253º (Ct = +1º) at 8 knots. Find your DR position at 13:00: