Port State Examiner Study Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025)
- prior to entry documents on NOA? - Correct Answers
✅Cert of financial responsibility (COFR) Document of Compliance (DOC), Safety Management Cert. (SMC), Vessel Response Plan, International Ships Security Cert. (ISSC) What dose SANS stand for? - Correct Answers ✅Ships Advanced Notice System When must a NOA be submitted? - Correct Answers ✅96 hours, 24 hours or prior to departure if voyage is less than 96 hours. (33CFR160.212) What policy do we follow if vessel submits an inaccurate NOA? - Correct Answers ✅Notice of Arrival Enforcement Policy (FOUO) 13Oct2006 What are the different vessel priority's? - Correct Answers ✅1, 2 & NPV Vessel targeting 17+ points = what priority? - Correct Answers ✅P1 Vessel targeting 0-6 points = what priority? - Correct Answers ✅NPV 1 / 3
Port State Examiner Study Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Vessel targeting 6-16 points = what priority? - Correct Answers ✅P2 Where should a P1 exam be conducted? - Correct Answers ✅Prior to entering port. COTP may request waiver from district.In one sentence describe the purpose / goal of the USCG Port State Control program? - Correct Answers ✅The primary goal of the PSC program is to eliminate substandard vessels from US waters. (Encl. 4 to NVIC 06-03 CH. 2 A.1) What cite gives Class Societies the authority to work on behalf of Flag? - Correct Answers ✅74 SOLAS (14) I/6(b) Who must submit an Advance Notice of Arrival (ANOA)? - Correct Answers ✅The owner, agent, master, operator, or person in charge of U.S. and foreign vessels bound for or departing ports or places in the U.S. must submit an Advance
Notice of Arrival. The following vessels are exempt: U.S.
recreational vessels, vessels 300 GT or less, vessels operating exclusively in one COTP zone, towing vessels/barges operating solely between ports or places in the continental U.S., public vessels, U.S. vessels (except tank vessels) operating solely on the great lakes. (33 CFR 160.202,203) 2 / 3
Port State Examiner Study Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) How often does a Qualship 21 vessel need to have a Port State Safety and Environmental exam conducted? - Correct Answers ✅3 years If a vessel has not been to the United States within 13 months what priority does this vessel automatically become, at the least? - Correct Answers ✅P2 SOLAS applies to Cargo vessels under ____ gross tons with the exception of Chapter IV? - Correct Answers ✅Cargo vessels 500 gross tons and upwards. Chapter IV, is applicable to cargo ships 300 GT and upwards.Letter of deviation is only good for what equipment? - Correct Answers ✅Navigation equipment. (33 CFR 164.53) What is the time limit for entering an operational control into MISLE for a detention. - Correct Answers ✅4 hours What pyro is required on a life boat - Correct Answers ✅2 smoke, 4 parachute, 6 hand held Name the IAC Members? - Correct Answers ✅American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Bureau Veritas (BV), China Classification Society (CCS), Croatian Register of Shipping (CRS), Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Germanischer Lloyd (GL),
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