Passage

Question 1

What are the required publications by SOLAS?

Answer 1

Admiralty Sailing directions
Admiratly List of Lights
Admiralty Tide Tables
Admiralty List of Radio Signals Vols I-VII
International Code of Signals
IAMSAR Volume III
Mariners' Handbook
MGN
MSN
MIN
Notices to Mariners
Annual Summary of Notices to Mariners
Nautical Almanac
Navigational Tables
Tidal Stream Atlases

Question 2

What is APEM?

Answer 2

Appraisal
Planning
Execution
Monitoring

Question 3

Define appraisal?

Answer 3

Gathering together of informaiton relevant to the intended passage.
Information such as:
-Currents
-Tides
-Expected draughts
-Advice and recommendations in ASD
-Navigaitonal lights
-Navigational marks
-Traffic separation and reouting schemes
-Nav Warnings 
-Meteorological data
-Ships maneuvering characteristics

Question 4

Define planning?

Answer 4

Creation of a detailed plan of the passage from berth to berth.

• passage marked on charts
• radar conspicuous items parked
• transit marks, clearing bearings/ranges
• safe speed and speed alterations
• course change and wheelover points
• position fixing method and interval
• contingency plans

Question 5

Define execution?

Answer 5

When ETD/A can be defined the tactics used to execute the plan should be discussed.

• condition of navigational equipment
• ETAs at critical points for HOT and flow
• Meteorological conditions
• day/night passage considered for dangerous points
• predicted traffic conditions

Question 6

Define monitoring?

Answer 6

Monitoring of ship’s progress along the planned track and monitoring of navigational equipment.

• visual bearings
• transits
• parrallel indexing
• GPS
• ECDIS
• RADAR
• echo sounder