Uscg 100T Master Practice

Front 1

How many feet is 100 M?

Back 1

328.1 ft.

Hint 1

Student manual p. 11how many

Front 2

How many meters is 65.6 ft?

Back 2

20 M

Hint 2

P. 11

Front 3

12 M equals how many feet?

Back 3

39.4 ft

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P. 11

Front 4

NUC stands for what?

Back 4

Not Under Command (exceptional circumstance)

Hint 4

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Front 5

What does RAM stand for?

Back 5

Restricted in Ability to Maneuver (nature of work)

Hint 5

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Front 6

What does CBD mean?

Back 6

Constrained by Draft (power driven, INTL only)

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Front 7

What does the phrase “Only New Reels Catch Fish So Purchase Some Worms Often” help you determine?

Back 7

The Right of Way

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Front 8

What type of fishing is NOT included under the USCG definition?

Back 8

Trolling

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Front 9

“Red over red; the Captain is dead. His balls are in the rigging”

Back 9

NUC

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Front 10

“Red White Red; working ahead”

Back 10

RAM

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Front 11

“Three Red in a row, no room below”

Back 11

CBD

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Front 12

What is the rhyme for Fishing?

Back 12

“Red over white, fishing at night”

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Front 13

What is the rhyme for Trawling?

Back 13

Green over white, Trawling at night

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Front 14

What is the rhyme for sailing?

Back 14

Red over green, sailing machine

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Front 15

“Yellow over white, my cable is tight”

Back 15

Towing astern

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Front 16

What rhyme can be used to help remember light patterns for Towing Inland Only?

Back 16

Yellow over yellow push or hip tow fellow

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Front 17

What does ATON stand for?

Back 17

Aid to Navigation

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Front 18

What is the most important source of information to be used in correcting charts and publications, and keeping them up to date?

Back 18

Notice to Mariners (NTM)

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Front 19

How often are the local NTM’s published?

Back 19

Weekly

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Front 20

Which USCG publication contains information concerning lighted aids to navigation?

Back 20

Light List

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Front 21

What are Coast Pilots?

Back 21

NOAA/National Ocean Service publishes docs containing descriptions of the Coast line, buoyage systems, weather conditions, port facilities, navigation instructions for the US and it’s possessions

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Front 22

How are Coast Pilots kept up to date?

Back 22

Notice to Mariners (NTM)

Front 23

What does Chart #1 contain?

Back 23

Legends of ALL chart symbols & abbreviations used

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Front 24

What are CFR’s?

Back 24

US aids to Navigation System: Title 33 CFR: Navigation & Navigable Waters

Front 25

Which document is used as a Coast pilot overseas?

Back 25

Sailing Directions

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Front 26

Which ways can ATONs be positively identified during the Daytime?

Back 26

Location, shape, color scheme, auxiliary features and markings of a navigation aid

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Front 27

How are ATONs positively identified at Night time?

Back 27

The lights shows by the navigation aid becomes the primary source of ID

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Front 28

The length of time required for a lighted ATON to progress through the one complete cycle of is referring to as the what?

Back 28

Period (it’s duration)

Front 29

Light Houses can be identified not only by their light characteristics but also by what else?

Back 29

By a unique paint scheme and supporting structure which differentiates it from any other lighthouse to ships off shore

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Front 30

Which factors are used to to develop the chartered information of a lighthouse?

Back 30

Height and intensity of the light

Hint 30

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Front 31

On a chart how are the characteristics of the light on a lighthouse shown?

Back 31

They are shown as flashing white with a red sector which indicates a danger area.

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Front 32

Which light characteristics may be used on a special purpose mark?

Back 32

Fixed Light

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Front 33

Which type of light shines with steady, unblinking intensity?

Back 33

Fixed

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Front 34

Which type of light appears as a single flash, at regular intervals with a duration of light less than the duration of darkness?

Back 34

Flashing Light

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Front 35

What is the difference between a quick flashing light and a flashing light?

Back 35

Similar characteristics but it shows more frequently in indicate a greater degree of cautionary significance

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Front 36

An interrupted quick flashing light flashes how many times followed by a period of darkness, with a standard period of 10 seconds?

Back 36

Six times

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Front 37

Which light shows groups of two or more flashes at regular intervals?

Back 37

Group flashing light

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Front 38

Which type of buoy, if lighted, will show a Morse (A) white light?

Back 38

A mid-channel buoy

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Front 39

Which type of light has equal durations of light and darkness (ie. 1 sec. flash, 1 sec. eclipse)?

Back 39

Isophase light

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Front 40

A light whose period of light is longer than its period of darkness (ie. 4 sec. flash, 2 sec. eclipse, 3 sec. flash, 2 sec. eclipse) is called what?

Back 40

an Occulting Light (Oc.)

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Front 41

In the US Aids to Navigation System, lateral aids as seen entering from seaward will display what three types of lights?

Back 41

Flashing, Occulting and Quick Flashing Lights

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Front 42

What four colors are used in lighted navigation aids?

Back 42

White, green, red and yellow

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Front 43

A buoy marking what may show a white light FL (2) and a top mark of 2 black spheres?

Back 43

A shipwreck

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Front 44

White and orange buoys if lighted show what color light?

Back 44

A white light

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Front 45

Airport beacons, harbor entrance lights and lighthouses which change color during a regular pattern and used for special applications requiring the exercise of great caution are examples of what types of lights?

Back 45

Alternating Lights

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Front 46

Sector Lights warm navigators of what?

Back 46

Hazards when approaching the light from certain dangerous arcs, sectors or directions

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Front 47

Two or more lights in the same horizontal direction situated in such a way that one is slightly over and above another when they are aired in line are called what?

Back 47

Range Lights

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Front 48

Nominal Range is accurately defined as what?

Back 48

The maximum distance at which a light may be seen with ten miles visibility (how the intensity of light is expressed in the light list)

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Front 49

How far one can see the light based on the height of the light and your own height of eye, limited only by the curvature of the earth is called what?

Back 49

Geographical Range

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Front 50

Buoys & Beacons warm navigators of what?

Back 50

Some danger, obstructions, or change in the sea bottom

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Front 51

Buoys indicate what?

Back 51

They indicate the safe limits of a channel

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Front 52

What are Beacons?

Back 52

Beacons are aids to navigation that are rigidly attaches to the bottom or to the shore

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Front 53

When entering from sea port left hand channel day marks are represented by what?

Back 53

A green square

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Front 54

Which IALA System is prescribed for North, Central and South America, Japan, Korea and the Philippines?

Back 54

IALA System “B”

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Front 55

IALA System “A” is prescribed which areas of the world?

Back 55

Europe, Africa and Asia

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Front 56

In which system must you keep marks on certain side (buoys/beacons ALWAYS numbered)?

Back 56

Lateral system

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Front 57

In IALA-B when entering from seaward, right hand channel buoys are painted what color and have what color lights?

Back 57

Painted red and have red lights

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Front 58

Left hand channel buoys are painted which color and have what color lights?

Back 58

Left hand channel buoys are painted green with green lights

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Front 59

In a non-lateral system (ALWAYS lettered), which side may you pass on?

Back 59

May pass on ANY side

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Front 60

Under the IALA-A and B Buoyage Systems, a buoy with alternating red and white vertical stripes indicates what?

Back 60

That there is navigable water all around. Safe water marks show a white Morse (A) light

Hint 60

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