Passenger Ship Design Quiz

You are tasked with designing a new passenger ship and found the collision bulkhead is located less than 5% of the ship's length from the forward perpendicular. As an officer, what action should you recommend to comply with SOLAS regulations?

• Move the bulkhead further aft

• Increase the height of the bulkhead

• Add more watertight doors

• Reduce the number of bulkheads

Which of the following SOLAS regulation you must apply to ensure the collision bulkhead is correctly positioned?

• SOLAS II-1/13

• SOLAS II-1/25-9

• SOLAS II-1/11

• SOLAS II-1/10

How would you use a Damage Control Plan in a flooding emergency?

• Only reference it during drills to locate and close all relevant watertight doors and valves as indicated

• Ignore the plan and act on intuition

• Use it to plan cargo loading

• Locate and close all relevant watertight doors and valves as indicated

A vessel has a slack tank with a large breadth. Analyze how this affects her stability.

• The free surface effect is decreased, increasing stability

• No effect on stability

• The free surface effect is increased, reducing stability

• Only affects trim, not stability

If a compartment's permeability is underestimated during floodable length calculations, what is the risk?

• The ship may not survive flooding as predicted

• The ship will have excess stability as predicted

• The ship will have reserve buoyancy as predicted

• The ship will float higher

A ship's GM is calculated without considering the free surface effect. What is the likely error in the result?

• GM will be negative

• GM will be underestimated

• GM will be unaffected

• GM will be overestimated

Compare the damage stability requirements for passenger and cargo ships under SOLAS.

• Passenger ships have more stringent subdivision standards

• Cargo ships require more bulkheads

• Both have the same requirements

• Cargo ships require remote-controlled doors

When calculating effective GM, why must free surface correction be subtracted from the solid GM?

• Because free surface effect increases GM

• Because free surface increases buoyancy

• Because free surface reduces stability

• Because free surface affects only trim

How could you use free surface moment data from a tank sounding table to improve ship stability management?

• Adjust tank filling to minimize free surface effect

• Adjust tank filling to maximize free surface effect

• Only use data for fuel tanks

• Use data to increase cargo load

How would you revise a ship's tank arrangement to minimize free surface effects?

• Subdivide small tanks with transverse bulkheads

• Subdivide large tanks with longitudinal bulkheads

• Combine all tanks into one

• Use only transverse bulkheads