Navigational Skills Assessment Quiz
Navigational Skills Assessment Quiz
Test your knowledge of maritime navigation with our comprehensive 23-question quiz. This quiz covers various essential topics including chart projections, gyrocompasses, and collision regulations. Perfect for students, teachers, and maritime professionals looking to sharpen their navigational skills.
- Explore critical navigation concepts!
- Improve your understanding of marine safety!
- Challenge yourself and track your progress!
Which of these methods represents parts of the surface of a sphere/spheroid upon a plane surface?
Chart Navigation
Chart projection
Chart cataloging
Chart sounding
Which projection has a plane conformal cylindrical projection of a surface of the Earth made on a cylinder tangent along the equator?
Cylindrical Projection
Conic Projection
Mercator Projection
Lambert Projection
The maximum distance at which a light can be seen in weather conditions where visibility is ten nautical miles is called
Luminous range
Nominal range
Visible range
Geographical range
When should a navigator rely on the position of floating aids to navigation?
Only one high and one low water occur during a lunar day
During daylight only, the high tide and low tide are precisely six hours apart
Only when inside a harbor
Only when fixed aids are not available
When you are heading on a pair of range lights and find the upper light is vertically inline above the lower light, which of the following statement is TRUE?
You should change heading to port
You should steady on your present course
You should change heading to starboard
You should wait until the lights are no longer in a vertical line
In voyage planning, which is the ideal chart covering the entire ocean passage length?
Coastal chart
General chart
Particular Chart
Routing Chart
When influenced by the Earth's magnetism, where does the "north" end of the magnetic-needle point?
Magnetic course
Magnetic error
Magnetism
Magnetic north
When the compass course is greater than true, the error is _____.
East
West
North
South
The direction of the compass needle points to the North Magnetic Pole.
True
False
Gyrocompasses are unaffected by ferromagnetic materials, such as the ship's steel hull. This metallic property of the ship changes the magnetic field acting on the Compass.
True
False
Periodically, the gyrocompass is checked against the magnetic Compass to correct any error it might pick up.
True
False
When two well-charted objects are in transit, a magnetic bearing is taken.
True
False
International Association of Lighthouse Authorities is a non-government body that brings together representatives from the aids to navigation services of various countries to exchange information and recommend improvements.
True
False
Collision Regulation (COLREG) is one of the most critical maritime conventions dealing with the safety of seafarers at sea and listing requirements for all merchant ships to comply with the minimum safety norms.
True
False
After you update the chart, you always put the NM update number on the bottom right corner of the chart.
True
False
You may use correction fluid when making a mistake on an Admiralty Standard Nautical Chart.
True
False
What is List of Radio Signals
Helping bridge crews to manage communications and comply with all reporting regulations throughout a voyage.
Provide bridge crews with the latest safety-critical navigational information updated weekly.
Support bridge crews in routine and emergency celestial navigation, as well as the calculation of daylight hours and mandatory gyro checks
Improves the safety of navigation in converging areas and in areas where the density of traffic is great or where freedom of movement of shipping is inhibited
Define Notices to Mariners
. Helping bridge crews to manage communications and comply with all reporting regulations throughout a voyage.
. Provide bridge crews with the latest safety-critical navigational information updated weekly.
Support bridge crews in routine and emergency celestial navigation, as well as the calculation of daylight hours and mandatory gyro checks
Improves the safety of navigation in converging areas and in areas where the density of traffic is great or where freedom of movement of shipping is inhibited
Define The Nautical Almanac
. Support bridge crews in routine and emergency celestial navigation, as well as the calculation of daylight hours and mandatory gyro checks
Improves the safety of navigation in converging areas and in areas where the density of traffic is great or where freedom of movement of shipping is inhibited
Provide bridge crews with the latest safety-critical navigational information updated weekly.
. Helping bridge crews to manage communications and comply with all reporting regulations throughout a voyage.
Define Ship Routeing
Support bridge crews in routine and emergency celestial navigation, as well as the calculation of daylight hours and mandatory gyro checks
. Provide bridge crews with the latest safety-critical navigational information updated weekly
Helping bridge crews to manage communications and comply with all reporting regulations throughout a voyage.
Improves the safety of navigation in converging areas and in areas where the density of traffic is great or where freedom of movement of shipping is inhibited
What is Official Logbook
. Improves the safety of navigation in converging areas and in areas where the density of traffic is great or where freedom of movement of shipping is inhibited
Maintains a recording of the opening and closing of water-tight doors, closing, and opening in hulls and water-tight bulkheads
Record various data, scenarios, and situations (including emergency situations and actions which are later used for reference, case study, and for insurance purposes in case of damage to the ship or loss of ship’s property
Records distress signals, safety traffic communication in the position of the ship at least once a day
What is Deck Logbook
Improves the safety of navigation in converging areas and in areas where the density of traffic is great or where freedom of movement of shipping is inhibited
Maintains a recording of the opening and closing of water-tight doors, closing, and opening in hulls and water-tight bulkheads
Record various data, scenarios, and situations (including emergency situations and actions which are later used for reference, case study, and for insurance purposes in case of damage to the ship or loss of ship’s property
. Records distress signals, safety traffic communication in the position of the ship at least once a day
What is GMDSS Logbook
Improves the safety of navigation in converging areas and in areas where the density of traffic is great or where freedom of movement of shipping is inhibited
. Maintains a recording of the opening and closing of water-tight doors, closing, and opening in hulls and water-tight bulkheads
Record various data, scenarios, and situations (including emergency situations and actions which are later used for reference, case study, and for insurance purposes in case of damage to the ship or loss of ship’s property
Records distress signals, safety traffic communication in the position of the ship at least once a day
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