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[接上页] A candidate who fails the form vision test or the colour vision test may, on payment of the prescribed fee, apply for a further sight test on appeal. (Enacted 1986) Cap 313R Sched 4 SYLLABUS FOR PLEASURE VESSEL MASTER GRADE II [rules 4 & 6] The examination comprises an oral examination or a 45 minute written paper on the following subjects-(L.N. 327 of 1989) 1. Local Knowledge (i) Victoria Harbour-prohibited areas and restricted anchorage areas, main fairways, main ferry routes and harbour limits. (ii) Traffic Separation Schemes, location of typhoon shelters, boundary of Hong Kong waters, ferry routes to outlying districts, firing practice areas, established dumping and spoil grounds. (iii) Speed restrictions in Victoria Harbour, typhoon shelters and other areas. (iv) Use of public piers and typhoon shelters. (v) Penalty for pollution of the water and the dumping of refuse. (vi) Knowledge of the duties and obligations of the owner and master of a pleasure vessel under the Shipping and Port Control Ordinance (Cap 313), the Shipping and Port Control Regulations (Cap 313 sub. leg.), the Merchant Shipping Ordinance (Cap 281) and the Merchant Shipping (Pleasure Vessel) Regulations (Cap 313 sub. leg.). (vii) Contents of current Marine Department Notices applicable to pleasure vessels as regards their navigation and safety. (viii) The procedure for reporting accidents. 2. Seamanship (A) Nautical terms (i) Ability to report the approximate bearing of an object in degrees or points relative to the vessel. (B) Safety (i) Knowledge and use of safety equipment carried on pleasure vessels, its maintenance and stowage. (ii) The selection of lifejackets or buoyancy aids for adults or children and their appropriate uses. (iii) Precautions against the outbreak of fire and explosion especially LPG installations and the stowage of petrol and diesel fuel. (iv) Methods of dealing with an outbreak of fire. (v) Precautions to be observed when towing a water skier and the use and meaning of signals between observer and skier. The reason for the use of a lifejacket or buoyancy aid by the skier. (vi) Action to be taken in unusual circumstances-collisions, stranding and accidental grounding, methods to check the ingress of water, man overboard, loss of propeller or rudder, freeing a fouled propeller. (vii) Assisting a person or vessel in distress. (viii) Indications of lack of stability. (ix) Preparing a vessel to ride out a typhoon whilst at her mooring. (x) The safe use of small fenders for pleasure vessels. (C) Handling of Craft (i) Berthing alongside, and unberthing from, jetties and piers, making due allowance for the effects of wind and tide. (ii) Method of approach and securing to a mooring buoy. (iii) Preparations for anchoring, anchoring in an open roadstead, and in a confined space making due allowance for the effects of wind and tide and the presence of other anchored craft. (iv) Effect of propellers on manoeuvring of single and twin screw craft. (v) Precautions to be observed in manoeuvring in congested waters where other vessels may be obscured by intervening obstructions. (vi) Precautions and handling in heavy weather. (D) Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (i) General knowledge of Parts A & B of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (Rules 1-9, 11-19). (ii) Detailed knowledge of the lights carried by vessels of less than 12 m and of the position in which they are carried, including the technical details of positions of these lights contained in Annex I of the Regulations (Rules 21, 22, 23 & 27 & Annex I). (iii) Recognition of the lights and shapes carried by- (a) Power driven vessels of any length. (b) Sailing vessels of any length. (c) Vessels towing or pushing. (d) Vessels not under command or restricted in their ability to manoeuvre. (e) Fishing vessels. (f) Pilot vessels. (g) Anchored vessels of any length.(iv) Signals in restricted visibility. (v) Manoeuvring and warning signals. (vi) Distress signals. (vii) Action to be taken by small craft when navigating in the vicinity of Traffic Separation Schemes in Hong Kong waters. (viii) Local regulations for collision avoidance for vessels in and crossing a fairway. 3. Navigation and Pilotage (A) Compass (i) Boxing the compass in points (Quadrantal excluding the "by" points). (B) Chartwork (i) Ability to interpret the information given on an Admiralty Chart and the meaning of the symbols as regards water depth, buoys, lights, contour lines, pipelines, submarine cables, wrecks, danger line, rocks, stream and current. (ii) Use of tide tables, tidal stream atlas and tidal information on charts for Hong Kong waters, (C) Pilotage (i) I.A.L.A. Maritime Buoyage System for Region A. (ii) Use of transit bearings. (iii) Preparation of a navigation plan for a short voyage by day or by night. (iv) Precautions and actions to be taken when navigating in restricted visibility. |