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UNITED STATES COAST GUARD 



Describe the distress lights or flares 

 with which lifeboats and liferafts are 

 equipped, and state how they are 

 ignited. 



To what equipment are self-igniting 

 water lights attached, and what two 

 types of water lights are in general 

 use? 



Who must be placed in charge of a 

 lifeboat on all services other than 

 rivers? 



How often are fire and boat drills re- 

 quired? 



What is the minimum length of life- 

 boat falls? 



Describe briefly the Carbon Dioxide 

 Fire Extinguisher System. 



In what weather conditions are tank 

 vessels forbidden by the regulations to 

 start or continue transfer operations? 



Would you use a canister type gas 

 mask for entering a hold into which 

 CO2 gas had been injected to extinguish 

 a fire? 



Describe the Smoke Pipe Fire Detec- 

 tion System, 



Where will you find listed the life- 

 saying and fire-fighting equipment re- 

 quired to be carried aboard ocean 

 passenger vessels? 



How many complete recharges must 

 be carried for each gas mask required 

 to be carried aboard ocean passenger 

 vessels and where must they be stored? 



Where shall fire axes be located 

 aboard passenger vessels? 



How is fire hose tested, how often, 

 and by whom? 



What care would you give the ship's 

 davits? 



What are the three basic methods of 

 fighting fire? 



Name three types of fire detecting 

 systems. 



How many extra charges are required 

 to be carried for portable fire extin- 

 guishers? 



When a tank vessel is provided with 

 steam smothering system for the ex- 

 tinction of fire in the liquid cargo tanks, 

 in what position should the valves to the 

 tanks be left? Under what circum- 

 stances may they be in other than the 

 normal position? 



How would you mark the steam 

 smothering line valve to a dry cargo 

 hold on a tank vessel, unless a line in- 

 dependent of the line for the liquid 

 cargo tanks was provided? 



On a tanker at sea carrying cargo, 

 would you use portable electric lights to 

 provide illumination for work being per- 

 formed in the enclosed space below the 

 midship house directly above the cargo 

 tanks? If you use portable lights, what 

 type should you use? 



How would you mark a locker con- 

 taining oxygen breathing apparatus? 



How is the location of emergency 

 squad equipment indicated? 



How are fire doors marked? 



What distress signals are required 

 to be carried within the pilot house or 

 on the navigators bridge of ocean and 

 coastwise vessels? 



Name the four types of fire extin- 

 guishers, and state the kind of fire on 

 which each is most effective. 



How often should all fire equipment 

 be examined and inspected by the ves- 

 sel's personnel? 



On the foam type fire extinguisher 

 sketched, name and describe the func- 

 tion of each of the parts indicated by 

 letters. 



