Types of Ships
This type of ship is designed to carry wheeled cargo.
What is a Ro-Ro (roll-on/roll-off) vessel?
This is the color of a lifebuoy used in most SOLAS-compliant vessels.
What is orange?
This instrument shows the ship’s heading relative to true north.
This international convention regulates safety at sea.
What is SOLAS (International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea)?
This is the purpose of the ISPS Code.
What is to enhance security for ships and port facilities?
This type of vessel is typically used to support offshore oil rigs.
What is a Platform Supply Vessel (PSV)?
This is how often fire drills should be conducted on ships.
What is at least once every month?
This is the primary purpose of a radar reflector.
What is to enhance a small vessel’s radar visibility to other ships?
This convention governs marine pollution from ships.
What is MARPOL?
Every ship must have this document on board that outlines specific security measures and protocols for different security levels.
What is the Ship Security Plan (SSP)?
This kind of vessel is used for undersea cable laying.
What is a cable-laying ship?
An EPIRB does that when activated.
What is send a distress signal with the vessel's location to rescue services via satellite?
This is what AIS stands for.
What is Automatic Identification System?
Under SOLAS, every ship carry must carry these certificates (3).
What are Safety Equipment Certificate, Safety Construction Certificate, Safety Radio Certificate?
This is what SSAS stands for.
What is Ship Security Alert System?
This class of vessel is capable of transporting both oil and dry cargoes in separate tanks or holds.
What is an OBO Carrier (Ore-Bulk-Oil Carrier)?
This is the type of fires involving flammable liquids (e.g., fuel, oil).
What is a fire Class B?
This is used to measure a ship’s speed through water.
What is a LOG? (Doppler log or electromagnetic log)
Under the UNCLOS, this is the maximum breadth of a country's territorial sea from the baseline.
What is 12 nautical miles?
This is the minimum Ship Security Level that must be maintained at all times unless advised otherwise by port or flag authorities.
What is Security Level 1?
This type of vessel is used for dynamic positioning operations and often equipped with subsea intervention tools.
What is a DP Vessel (Dynamically Positioned Vessel)?
Seven short blasts followed by one long blast on the ship’s whistle and internal alarm system.
What is the signal for general emergency according to SOLAS standards?
This chart system is used in ECDIS.
What is ENC (Electronic Navigational Chart)?
This SOLAS regulation mandates the minimum safe manning level on ships.
What is SOLAS Chapter V, Regulation 14?
This international database allows shipping companies to check maritime piracy reports in near real time.
What is the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre (International Maritime Bureau)?