Coast Guard Test Coast Guard Navigation and Seamanship 2

Question 1

A vessel showing a red light on its port side and a green light on its starboard side is displaying what type of navigation lights?

Accepted Answer

Sidelights

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Masthead lights

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Sternlights

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Range lights

Question 2

When two power-driven vessels meet head-on, what is the correct action under the Navigation Rules?

Accepted Answer

Each alters course to starboard

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Each alters course to port

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Both maintain course

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The larger vessel gives way

Question 3

What does a single short blast of the whistle signal to another vessel in a meeting or crossing situation?

Accepted Answer

I intend to leave you on my port side

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I intend to leave you on my starboard side

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I am backing down

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Danger or doubt

Question 4

A green can-shaped buoy marked with an odd number indicates which side of the channel when returning from sea?

Accepted Answer

Port side

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Starboard side

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Center of channel

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A hazard to avoid

Question 5

What is the primary purpose of a compass rose printed on a nautical chart?

Accepted Answer

To show true and magnetic direction

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To indicate water depth

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To mark restricted areas

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To display tidal ranges

Question 6

Which knot is best suited for tying a line to a fixed post or piling because it holds under load yet releases easily?

Accepted Answer

Clove hitch

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Square knot

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Sheet bend

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Bowline

Question 7

The difference between true north and magnetic north at a given location is called what?

Accepted Answer

Variation

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Deviation

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Set

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Drift