Capt.

Deepak
Kapoor
Prepared By: Rohit Kumar
 SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POLICY OF
YOUR COMPANY ??
"Recognising that achieving excellence in respect of Quality, Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Social Responsibility is paramount to the success our business, we give
highest importance to these aspects. Accordingly, we commit ourselves to:
- Understanding the requirements of our customers, and striving to exceed their expectations;
- Building mutually beneficial relationships with service providers and company personnel:
- Improving Safety, Environmental, Operational, Technical and Commercial performance of ships operated by us:
- Complying with applicable Flag and Port State legislations and other requirements, as applicable;
- Maintaining an optimum spare parts inventory based on critical equipment and system redundancy identified on all vessels;
- Providing for safe practices in ship operation and ensuring safe, secure and healthy working environment to personnel ashore and on board ships by employing best
management practices:
- Identifying all relevant hazards to safety, health and sccuaty est all identified hazards:
- Safeguarding all IT and OT assets ashore and on board our ships from cyber-attacks by continuously mitigating cyber risks:
- Ensuring that adequate attention is paid towards selection and career development of shore-based and shipboard personnel, with a view to ensure that all responsible
persons are fully competent to perform the task with which they are entrusted:
- Continually enhancing the safety management skills of personnel ashore and on board ships, including preparing for emergencies related to safety, protection of
environment and security;
- Establishing and monitoring the health standards of employees working in shore-based offices and on board the ships:
- Continually improving the performance and effectiveness of our integrated management system;
- Preventing all types of pollution of sea by oil, garbage, sewage and other harmful substances:
- Reducing air pollution and reducing-recycling-reusing all types of waste;
- Preventing injury, accidents, illnesses, damages, losses and deficiencies in our service: .
- Following and enforcing a zero tolerance policy toward drugs and alcohol:
- Conserving all types of natural resources, including energy, and committing to fulfill our social responsibility with conviction and determination for the betterment of society
at large. It shall be ensured that all personnel ashore and on board ships have appropriate experience and training relevant to their roles. Company provides career
development for junior officers and aims to recruit senior officers from within the company where possible. Senior officers are encouraged and apprised to always lead by
example in safety related issues. The company commits itself to providing adequate resources and training to its personnel, whether shore-based or on board ships, to
 Duties of Master as per MS ACT??
Source: MS Act
37. Endorsement on certificate of change of master.―
100. Agreements with crew.
125. Master to deliver account of wages.
126. Disrating of seamen.―(1) Where the master of a ship disrates a
seaman, he shall forthwith enter of cause to be entered in the official log
book, a statement of the disrating, and furnish the seaman with a copy of
the entry; and any reduction of wages consequent on the disrating shall not
take effect until the entry has been so made and the copy so furnished.
131. Master to give facilities to seaman for remitting wages.―
The master shall give to the seaman all reasonable facilities for remitting
any part of the balance of the wages due to him to a savings bank or to a
near relative.
152. Master to take charge of the effects of deceased seamen: Report the death to
the next-of-kin of the seaman or apprentice and to the shipping master. The master
shall thereupon enter in the official log book the following particulars, namely:—
(a) a statement of the amount of money and a detailed description of the other
effects;
(b) a statement of the sum due to the deceased for wages and of the amount of
deduction, if any, to be made from the wages.
(3) The said money, balance of wages and other effects are in this Act referred to as
the property of the seaman or apprentice
154. Master to pay and deliver property of deceased seamen.―
(1) If the master of a ship fails to comply with the provisions of this Act with respect
to taking charge of the property of the deceased seaman or apprentice, or to
making in the official log book the proper entries relating thereto, or to the
payment or delivery of such property, he shall be accountable for such property to
the shipping master as aforesaid, and shall pay and deliver the same accordingly.
(2) The property may be recovered in the same Court and manner in which the
wages of seamen may be recovered under this Act
163. Receiving distressed seamen on ships.― If required by the Indian Consular Officer.
168. Ships to have sufficient provisions and water.―
(3) The master shall not use any provisions or water so signified to be of bad quality and
shall in lieu of such provisions or water, provide other proper provisions or water and he
shall, if the provisions or water be signified to be deficient in quantity, procure the
requisite quantity of any provisions or water to cover the deficiency.
(7) The master of the ship or any person having charge over the ship shall maintain such
standards, in accordance with the provisions of the Maritime Labour Convention, for the
quantity and quality of food and drinking water, and the catering standards applicable to
food provided to the seamen on ships, as may be prescribed.
(8) The master of the ship or any person having charge over the ship shall undertake
educational activities to promote awareness and implementation of the standards referred
to in sub-section (7).
177. Inspection by master of provisions, water and accommodation at sea.―At least once
in every ten days
196. Entry of offences in official logs
198. Entries and certificates of desertion abroad.
208. On change of master, documents to be handed over to successor.
214. Entries required to be made in official log books.
298. Information about ship's stability : Documents relating to
navigation to be delivered by the master of a ship to his successor.
334. Unseaworthy ship not to be sent to sea: Make the ship
Seaworthy.
348. Duty of master of ship to assist in case of collision.
349. Collision to be entered in official log.
350. Report to Central Government of accidents to ships.
354. Duty to report dangers to navigation.
355. Obligation to render assistance on receiving signal of distress.
355A. Obligation to render assistance to persons in danger.
358. Shipping casualties and report thereof : Duty to report shipping
Casualty.
ABANDONMENT ??
what if crew wages are not paid for 2 months.
 Preparation For Class Survey ??
Class Renewal Survey Is Pending. How U Will Prepare ??
 Latest Amendment To Load-line ??
WEBLINK: MSC.491(104).pdf
 MS Act Sections 173 to 184 ??
173. Certain ships to carry medical officer.
174. Expenses of medical attendance in case of illness.
175. Accommodation for seaman.
176. Inspection by shipping master, etc., of provisions, water, weights and measures and accommodation.
176A. Ships to possess Maritime Labor Certificate and Declaration of Maritime Labour Compliance.
177. Inspection by master of provisions, water and accommodation atsea.
177A. Power to make rules to prevent accidents, etc.
178. Meaning of serving seaman.
179. Particulars to be furnished in plaints, etc.
180. Notice to be given in case of unrepresented seaman.
181. Power to set aside decrees and orders passed against serving seaman.
182. Modification of law of limitation where seaman is a party.
183. Reference in matters of doubt to shipping masters.
184. Facilities for making complaints.
 Who is Master as per MS Act ??
As per MS ACT 1958
Part-I: Preliminary
Section 3 – Definitions

(22) “Master” includes any person

(except a pilot or harbor master) having
command or charge of a ship.
Just Before Departure Both ECDIS Not Working, Gyro Also Not Working, C/E Calls
You Inform U Aux Ge Not Working, Action ???
In above situation, now PSC onboard, Action ??
Pilot Disembarking And Falls Over-board, Action ??
What is Shipping casualty?? Duties of Master related to Shipping Casualty??

Source: MS ACT 1958

Section 358: Shipping casualties and report thereof :

(1) For the purpose of investigations and inquiries under this Part, a shipping casualty shall be deemed to
occur when―
(a) on or near the coasts of India, any ship is lost, abandoned, stranded or materially damaged;
(b) on or near the coasts of India, any ship causes loss or material damage to any other ship;
(c) any loss of life ensues by reason of any casualty happening to or on board any ship on or near the coasts
of India;
(d) in any place, any such loss, abandonment, stranding, material damage or casualty as above mentioned
occurs to or on board any Indian ship, and any competent witness thereof is found in India;
(e) any Indian ship is lost or is supposed to have been lost, and any evidence is obtainable in India as to the
circumstances under which she proceeded to sea or was last heard of.
(2) In the cases mentioned in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of sub-section (1), the master, pilot, harbor master or
other person in charge of the ship, or (where two ships are concerned) in charge of each ship at the time of
the shipping casualty, and in the cases mentioned in clause (d) of sub-section (1), where the master of the
ship concerned or (except in the case of a loss) where the ship concerned proceeds to any place in India
from the place where the shipping casualty has occurred, the master of the ship, shall, on arriving in India,
give immediate notice of the shipping casualty to the officer appointed in this behalf by the Central
Government.
 What is Marine casualty??

Source: Casualty Investigation Code

As per Chapter 2- Definitions (2.9)

A marine casualty means an event, or a sequence of events, that has resulted in any of
the following which has occurred directly in connection with the operations of a ship:
.1 the death of, or serious injury to, a person;
.2 the loss of a person from a ship;
.3 the loss, presumed loss or abandonment of a ship;
.4 material damage to a ship;
.5 the stranding or disabling of a ship, or the involvement of a ship in a collision;
.6 material damage to marine infrastructure external to a ship, that could seriously
endanger the safety of the ship, another ship or an individual; or
.7 severe damage to the environment, or the potential for severe damage to the
environment, brought about by the damage of a ship or ships.
However, a marine casualty does not include a deliberate act or omission, with the
intention to cause harm to the safety of a ship, an individual or the environment.
 D i ff e r e n c e s b e t w e e n M a r i n e c a s u a l t y a n d S h i p p i n g C a s u a l t y ? ?

Coverage in Marine Casualty are more than Shipping Casualty Like,

1. Serious Injury to a person.
2. Material damage to marine infrastructure external to a ship.
3. Severe damage to the environment, or the potential for severe damage to the
environment.
Applicability?? DGS Order 20 / 2023

DGSOrder20of2023
Departing from Port Good Wx, Now after 5 min Bad Wx within port
and POB only, Action ??
Same scenario vessel aground now? Action?
 Container Ship Latest Amendment Regarding
Firefighting?
MSCResolutions/MSC.365(93).pdf
Firefighting for ships constructed on or after 1 January 2016 designed to carry containers on
or above the weather deck.
- Ships shall carry at least one water mist lance.
- The water mist lance shall consist of a tube with a piercing nozzle which is capable of
penetrating a container wall and producing water mist inside a confined space (container,
etc.) when connected to the fire main.
- Ships designed to carry five or more tiers of containers on or above the weather deck shall
carry, mobile water monitors as follows:
(i) ships with breadth less than 30 m: at least two mobile water monitors; or
(ii) ships with breadth of 30 m or more: at least four mobile water monitors.
- The mobile water monitors, all necessary hoses, fittings and required fixing hardware shall
be kept ready for use in a location outside the cargo space area not likely to be cut off in the
event of a fire in the cargo spaces.
- A sufficient number of fire hydrants shall be provided such that:

(i) all provided mobile water monitors can be operated simultaneously for creating effective water
barriers forward and aft of each container bay;
(ii) the two jets of water required by paragraph 2.1.5.1 can be supplied at the pressure required by
paragraph 2.1.6; and
(iii) each of the required mobile water monitors can be supplied by separate hydrants at the pressure
necessary to reach the top tier of containers on deck.
- The mobile water monitors may be supplied by the fire main, provided the capacity of fire pumps
and fire main diameter are adequate to simultaneously operate the mobile water monitors and two
jets of water from fire hoses at the required pressure values. If carrying dangerous goods, the
capacity of fire pumps and fire main diameter shall also comply with regulation 19.3.1.5, as far as
applicable to on-deck cargo areas.
- The operational performance of each mobile water monitor shall be tested during initial survey on
board the ship to the satisfaction of the Administration. The test shall verify that:
(i) the mobile water monitor can be securely fixed to the ship structure ensuring safe and effective
operation; and
(ii) the mobile water monitor jet reaches the top tier of containers with all required monitors and water
jets from fire hoses operated simultaneously."
Form A And Form B ???
Sewage Whether Grey Water Or Black Water?
Loading Harmful Substances As Per MARPOL Annex 3,
What All Things Will You Do?
Loading Container at JNPT, How as a Master you will load then DG
segregation and all ??
What All Documents You Will Sign After Loading Completed On Container
Ship ???
What Is Right-ship And Ratings? How As Master You Will Get Best Rating?
Pilot Vessel RV, Sound Signal?
Shown Aground Vessel And Asked Sound And Day Signal ??
Marine Board And How It Is Formed ??
Annex 5 Amendment ???
Annex EEDI And EEXI ??
Explain ISM 1.4 ???
Content of ISM Chapter 2
How as a master you will review your SMS? Procedure ??
Modernisation of GMDSS ??
Radio Station License Content ??
Content Of Form E ??
Content Of Form R ??
How U Will Cross Verify Ch Off Cargo Plan Is Right?
Condition Of Assignment Of Freeboard ??
B-60 ships ????
Difference Between Imminent Danger And Close Quarter Situation ??
HSSC ???
Difference between New & Old CDC ??
What is ms act & structure of ms act ??
leagalise as a master procedures ??
Duties of master as per MS act.
Court of survey ??
shipping casualties & marine casualties difference
Marine board ???
receiver of wreck
unsafe ship Detention procedures as per ms act
Ship certificates as per ms act ??
ISM - master duties related to element 1,5,6,11
ISM -Master review procedures ???
ISM preamble ??
 ITU - master responsibilities ??
Article 46 of ITU regulations...
 SUA- master responsibilities ??
Article 8 of SUA convention.
amendents of MLC (old & new)
Multi modal transport responsibilities and liability ??
IMDG - new amendments ??
Explain briefly about loading IMDG / reefers / general cargoes ??
Abondan seamen- as per MLC
MLC -Master responsibilities ??
Upon Joining a vessel, how will you ensure that your vessel is seaworthy ??
PSC- under what all circumstances can detention the vessel under ISM ??
PSC clear grounds ??
Containers ( Collapsed at sea, actions ) ??
Container vessel - 20yr old survey ??
Container vessel - floating dry dock, dry dock preparation, docking ,
undocking ??
After drydock going for loading - precautions & how will you tender NOR ??
Actions for Container fire / leakage of IMDG cargos ??
 which regulations says that the port state facilities should have fire fighting &
pollution control

told as per unclos -218 &, IMO members states requirements

During berthing power failure – actions ??
Vessel stranded actions ??
Container -applicable certificates and documents as per marpol ??
SEEMP // EEDI // CII ??
Marol annex -6 amendments ??
Energy efficiency control measures ??
ROR - Aground vsl / pilot vessel / power driven vsl at 2cbl distance / Navy vessel
under convey ??