Flag State and Classification Society Surveys: Certificates, Survey Cycles, Conditions of Class Preparing the Ship with 280 Practice Questions

A ship carries certificates issued by several authorities, each answering a different question, and officers routinely confuse them. Knowing who issues what, on whose behalf, and what each certificate actually asserts is the >Sixteen chapters cover statutory against class, the survey cycle with its anniversary dates and windows, preparation and why access delay dominates, structural survey and coating condition, machinery survey and continuous survey arrangements, dry docking, conditions of class and their closure, the records a surveyor asks for, what happens when a survey goes badly, and how to work with >WHAT IS INSIDE 280 multiple-choice questions: 240 chapter questions plus a 40-question practice >Complete answer keys for both, with 72 explained answers for the ones that most >4 worked survey scenarios 8 clear technical diagrams Examination preparation, a revision checklist, and chapters on records and on >A 15-term glossary and a quick reference section WHO IT IS FOR Masters, chief engineers, superintendents and officers responsible for survey preparation, and candidates for examinations covering certification and class. The book treats survey as a schedule the ship manages rather than an event that happens to her.