Technical skills

1. Did you have a job before?

2. Have you ever worked with a welding machine? / Do you have experience with welding?

3. Can you drive? / Do you sometimes repair the car?

4. Did you have any working experience in the past or did you enter the academy after school?

5. What instruments can you use?

Choosing a career

1. Why did you choose to become a seaman? / Where did you get an idea to become a seaman? / Why did you decide to be a seaman?

2. Do you have seafarers in your family? / Are your friends seamen?

3. Who advised you to become a seaman? / Who pushed you to choose the maritime career? / Was it your dream or did someone press you?/ Was it your own decision?/ Who gave you the idea to change your life and to go to the sea?

4. Why do you go to deck instead of engine room as your father?

5. Do you know that every ship is a dangerous place? Are you afraid of this?

6. What position do you want to reach in ten years, and then, later on? / How do you see your life next 10 years?

7. What was the best story you heard about sea life?

8. Are you ready to work on a big ship having OS certificate?

9. What do you want from life?

10. Is your philosophy to be a winner all the time?

11. What have you already reached in your life?

Studying at ksma

1. When did you graduate from school /college?

2. Why did you decide to enter KSMA?

3. Where did you get information about KSMA?

4. Do you like studying?

5. What is the name of your department at the academy?

6. Why did you choose navigation department?

7. How can you explain your low average grade?

8. What about your marks? Why Ship Operation is only 4.5?

9. What is the maximum mark you have in the register?

10. Tell me about your group. Who is the leader of it? What is your position there?

11. What is your favorite subject in the academy? / How many subjects are special here at the academy?

12. Where did you start to learn English?

13. What did you do at the last lesson of English? What was the topic? / What were you talking about at that lesson?

14. How many English lessons do you have a week? And daily?

15. What are your favorite subjects besides English?

16. What was the last topic at Navigation lesson? / Do you like navigation studies? / How to calculate ETA?

17. What do you do with charts at the lessons? / Have you ever done the chart correction?

18. What was the last topic in Math? / What did you do at your last Math lesson?

19. Have you passed flags? At what lesson did you study them?

20. Have you already passed the topic with magnetic error?

21. Why is your lowest mark in Physics?

22. How can you explain your bad mark in IT?

23. Have you passed KSMA workshops? / What was your task during the KSMA workshops?

24. What would you do if someone of your groupmates does not want to attend the lessons? Will you mark him as an attendee? What is your position in this situation?

25. What do you think when one of your schoolmates have arguments? What is your position? How will you deal with them?

Seagoing experience

1. Have you ever been aboard a ship?

2. What was your first experience at sea? / Did you have any sea going practice?

3. How long were you there? / How many months did you spend there? / How much time did you spend there? / How long have you been aboard?

4. What type of vessel was it? What was its name? What did the vessel carry?

5. What port was it in? / Was the ship sailing or staying in the port? / What was the trading area of your vessel?

6. What was your position aboard the vessel? / Was your position AB or OS?

7. What kind of practice did you have? / What kind of job did you do there? / What kind of assistance did you do there?

8. Describe the ship you had the practice on. What is OM 106?

9. Was the training real or theoretical?

10. How many crewmembers were there aboard the vessel? / How many cadets from KSMA did work there?

11. Were you aboard the vessel 24 hours a day?

12. What about food aboard? Was it OK? Were the cadets / crewmembers satisfied? / Who was cooking for you? / What was the room you have your meal in?

13. What type of work did you do there?

14. Did you perform washing and cleaning operations?

15. Did you perform such an ordinary job as chipping?

16. Did you paint the deck? What are the steps of deck painting? What was the prime colour of the metal after scrubbing?

17. What kinds of tools did you use? / What tools did you use for chipping rust?

18. What kind of protective equipment did you use while painting, scrubbing the deck?

19. What types of safety equipment were there on board?

20. What did you do after discharging?

21. Did you clean the holds?

22. Did you visit the bridge? Was the bridge well equipped? What nautical equipment did you see there? Did you see electronic charts there? Did you have no paper charts on board?

23. Did you get any navigation skills? / Did you steer the vessel? /Did you maneuver the vessel? / Did you stay at the wheel during the practice? / Did you have your own position as lookout?

24. Did you stay on the bridge during towing?

25. Did you participate in drills? / How were drills carried out, e.g. “Abandon the ship”? Did anyone jump overboard? What was your personal duty during the alarm?

26. Did you take part in maintaining safety equipment aboard?

27. What devices did you use?

28. Did you work with VHF?

29. Did you work with ARPA?

30. Did Captain show you how to work with it?

31. Did you participate in mooring operations? / What were your duties during the mooring operations? How many lines did you send from mooring side to coast? / Are you familiar with mooring operations?

32. How many lines did you use during the mooring operation?

33. Did you visit the engine room? / Did you see how it runs?

34. Did you work only on deck or also in the engine room? / Did you assist in some job in engine room?

35. Did you visit a life-boat? / What did you see inside it? / What provision, equipment can you find in a life-saving boat?

36. Where did you keep watch? / Did you keep the gangway watch?

37. Did you assist with the pilot ladder?

38. Did you work with the charts aboard the vessel?

39. What language did Captain use giving orders?

40. Did you perform towing operations?

41. Did you follow the safety rules aboard the vessel? What safety appliances did you use?