OCTCO/OCTF exit exam MCQs — Oil and Chemical Tanker Cargo Operations

Advanced Fire Fighting
Commanding a fire party rather than holding a hose: boundary cooling, fixed CO2 release and its shutdowns, A/B class divisions and the fire control plan.

Advanced Training for Ships subject to the IGF Code
The gas-fuelled ship in depth — Type C fuel tanks and their hydrostatic test, double-walled gas piping and annular-space leak detection, nitrogen and inerting lines, and the ESD chain protecting the machinery.

Basic Training for Ships subject to the IGF Code
The entry-level gas-fuel bank: what methane, propane and VCM actually are, how a bunkering system has to be arranged, MARVS and the IGF Code vocabulary, and why BLEVE is the accident to understand.

Advanced Training for Chemical Tanker Cargo Operations
Handling hazardous chemical cargoes to IBC Code rules — pollution categories, wall wash and tank cleanliness, incompatible stowage, and MARPOL Annex II slop discharge under the P&A Manual.

Elementary First Aid
The first ten minutes at a casualty: basic life support and CPR, stopping severe bleeding, recognising shock, and moving an injured shipmate without making it worse.

Fire Prevention & Fire Fighting
Where fire fighting starts — the fire tetrahedron and the classes of fire, choosing between water, CO2, DCP and foam, fixed installations, and the ship emergency organisation that puts them to work.

Advanced Training for Liquefied Gas Tanker Cargo Operations
LNG and LPG cargo work at officer level: cargo thermodynamics, boil-off and reliquefaction plant, IGC Code containment, the ESD link and deck water curtain, and custody transfer measurement.

General Ship Knowledge
The GP rating core: names of the parts of a ship, ropes and knots, working anchors and moorings, hatch covers and load lines, IALA buoyage and watchkeeping duties.

High Voltage Safety Officer & Switchgear Operations
Above 1000 V nothing is touched on trust: arc flash boundaries, permit to work and sanction to test, proving dead and applying earths, interlocks, and the vacuum breakers and relays doing the switching.

Liquefied Gas Tanker Cargo Operations
Cryogenic containment, reliquefaction, CTMS custody transfer, IGC/IGF safety and emergency STS — the full advanced gas carrier bank.

Medical Care Course on Board Ship
The officer who is the ship doctor: examining a patient with the kit actually carried, giving controlled drugs correctly, and building a report a shore doctor can act on over the radio.

Marine Engineering Knowledge
Engine room fundamentals for ratings: how two and four stroke diesels work, the auxiliaries around them, workshop tools and practice, boilers, and what a watch actually involves.

Medical First Aid
A step past EFA — body structure and function, spinal and skeletal injuries, the medicine chest and basic pharmacology, toxicological hazards, and working with radio medical advice.

Proficiency in Survival Craft and Rescue Boats
Taking charge of a survival craft: launching gear and on-load release hooks, lifeboat and liferaft equipment, the painter and sea painter, SART and EPIRB, and running a search and rescue.

Passenger Ship Familiarization
STCW A-V/2 crowd management: moving hundreds of passengers to muster and into survival craft, marine evacuation systems, fire control and ventilation shutdown, watertight doors and damage control.

Personal Safety & Social Responsibilities
Living and working safely aboard: safety briefings and escape routes, accident prevention, MARPOL garbage and pollution rules, communication with the crew you are stuck at sea with, and fatigue.

Personal Survival Techniques
Abandon ship and stay alive: donning lifejackets and immersion suits, getting into a boat or raft, exposure and hypothermia, pyrotechnics, and the signals that go with all of it.

Refresher Elementary First Aid
EFA revalidation with the awkward cases in it — the stroke you have to recognise, the choking infant, anaphylaxis, the casualty who looks drunk and is not, and how to carry any of them.

Refresher Course for STCW Modular Courses
The combined revalidation paper: what changed in STCW, the fire and survival drills as they are now run, emergency command, and the accident case studies behind the latest amendments.

Refresher Personal Safety & Social Responsibilities
The short PSSR revalidation bank — garbage discharge screen sizes and bunkering care alongside empathetic listening, stress, life-saving signals and a little ship terminology.

Security Training for Seafarers with Designated Security Duties
ISPS duties for the crew who actually carry them out: security levels 1 to 3, recognising weapons and threats, searching ship and stores, drills, citadel procedure and crowd control.

Advanced Training for Oil Tanker Cargo Operations
Oil tanker cargo work at officer level: cargo properties, pumps and pipeline systems, venting and inert gas, crude oil washing, static electricity limits and MARPOL pollution response.

Vertical Integration Course for Trainer
For the instructor rather than the candidate: adult learning and motivation, the STCW competence tables, competency-based assessment, lesson planning with simulators and aids, and QSS audit.