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The training of the new marine surveyors in your company is progressing well. They have recently sat an assessment and you have been asked to produce model answers (the ideal responses) to the questions asked, so this can be sent to them along with their results.
In a report format, without restating the questions asked, provide the model answers to the following questions.
- Casualties and Incidents: In your own words:
Explain the difference between a marine casualty and a marine incident. Identify which IMO documents define marine casualty and a marine incident.
Explain the circumstances under which a flag state must cause an investigation to be performed, making reference to the regulations and documents which govern this.
o In your own words, explain the term 'Substantially Interested State'.
- Investigations and the Surveyor:
List five legal rights of a surveyor being interviewed by a Marine Safety Investigating State. Explain, for each of the five rights, why this is important to both the surveyor and to the investigation outcome. Assume that this surveyor is being interviewed as they were the last person, prior to a marine casualty occurring, to perform a survey on-board the vessel concerned.
- Investigations and facts:
Select a recent marine casualty (from the past ten years) that has attracted your interest. Collect, list and reference information (within your answer) relating to the casualty from different sources such as reports, statements, newspapers, magazines or journals.
o Produce a detailed Sequential Fact Diagram (SFD) based on the sources which you have located. Remember to include only those items for which evidence exists. (Note: The text of the SFD is not included in your word count for the TMA).
o Write a factual report based on your SFD.
- Investigation Practicalities:
- Explain the procedure to be followed when conducting or witnessing an inclining experiment and provide three conditions which would render the result of the experiment inaccurate.
o A ship of 8,000 tonnes floats at a draught of 7m with a freeboard of 4m. A uniform weight of 65 tonnes on the deck is 4m high and it is to be lifted by a crane with its suspension point 12m above the deck. If the original KB = 4.25m, KG = 6.75m and KM = 7.65m, find the reduction in GM when the crane lifts the weight from the deck.