3. Give synonyms to the given words. You may use more than one.

1. Departure _____________________________________________________________________

2. Harbour ______________________________________________________________________

3. Guidelines ____________________________________________________________________

4. Apparent _____________________________________________________________________

5. Pilot launch ___________________________________________________________________

6. Danger ______________________________________________________________________

7. To rig_________________________________________________________________________

4. Read a near miss report (see a sample in annex).

Complete a near miss report covering the following items.

1. Description of the situation;

2. Possible cause of situation (root cause) and possible consequences;

3. Which preventive measures have been taken;

4. Master's decision (plan for further handling of above incident)

Case study-2. Very Near Miss

Own ship, a British registered container feeder vessel, running from Jeddah to Aqaba with a Russian crew, plus British Master and Chief Engineer. The other ship was a ferry, probably running from Jeddah to Egypt. Weather calm, clear, good visibility. Daylight, early afternoon, local time. Little traffic, plenty of sea room.

Own vessel sailed from Jeddah in the late morning bound for Aqaba, making about 12.8 knots eventually on a course of 328. Other vessel sailed somewhat later, making about 2 knots more than us. Shortly before noon I noted the ferry on the quarter slowly overtaking us. I went down for lunch at about 1230, noted the ferry through the messroom porthole a couple of points abaft the port beam, she looked to be paralleling us at about a mile off. I looked up again a short while later and the ferry was a couple of cables off, heading towards us and closing rapidly. I went directly to the bridge where the 2/O was talking to the ferry on the VHF. The ferry was telling us to slow down so that he could pass ahead of us. I put the wheel to hand and went hard a starboard, telling the 2/O that I had taken control of the watch. At this stage the ferry was about a cable away. We swung away rapidly and the ferry said thanks.

1. Answer the questions.

1. What vessels participated in the near miss?

2. What was the course of the container feeder vessel?

3. What was the position of the ferry in regard of the container vessel?

6. Who was keeping watch on the container feeder vessel?

7. What vessel was making an attempt to overtake the own vessel?

8. Who took control of the watch?

9. What were the ferry’s recommendations to avoid collision?

10. Can you assess it as a close-quarter situation? Give your reasons.

11. What actions were taken by both vessels to avoid collision?

2. Choose the factors which could become a reason of possible disaster and discuss them.

1. Negligence

2. Language barrier

3. Bad visibility

3. Self-confidence

5. Adverse weather

6. Lack of information

7. Fatigue