USCG COXSWAIN UPDATED EXAMS SET QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔PPE weather - ✔✔Water below 60=dry suit
Water above 60=ODUs, PFD
✔✔Drifting search patterns - ✔✔Expanding square, VS
✔✔Precision search - ✔✔Parallel, creep
✔✔mammalian dive reflex - ✔✔Can survive in cold water, blood flow slows down
✔✔Bends - ✔✔Air bubble in blood
✔✔Spring tide - ✔✔Unusually high or low tide
✔✔Medico - ✔✔Medical advice
✔✔Fetch - ✔✔Distance wind travels on the sea uninterrupted
✔✔Saddle - ✔✔Back of wave
✔✔Close out - ✔✔Way wave is breaking towards
✔✔Righting moment - ✔✔Moment before it rerights itself (furthest it will list)
✔✔Slip - ✔✔Difference between theoretical pitch and actual pitch (non-perfect medium,
cavitation, etc)
✔✔Rule 35 - ✔✔Sound signals in restricted visibility
✔✔SPE - ✔✔Severity, probability, exposure
✔✔Salvage policy - ✔✔
✔✔5 stages of sar - ✔✔Awareness
Initial action
Planning
Operations
Conclusion
✔✔3 phases of sar - ✔✔Uncertanty-doubt
Alert-aprehesion
Distress-danger
, ✔✔Responsibilities - ✔✔Safty of passangers and crew
Safe operation/navigation of boat assigned
Completion of sortie or mission
Report hazards to life or property
Report violations of laws and regulations
Report aton discrepencies
✔✔Elements of team coordination - ✔✔Situational awareness
Assertiveness
Decision making
Communication
Leadership
Adaptability
Mission analysis
✔✔Operational risk management 7 steps - ✔✔Identify mission tasks
Identify hazards (PEACE)
Asses risks
Identify options (STAAR)
Evaluate rish vs gain
Execute decisions
Monitor situations
✔✔Coxswain authority comes from - ✔✔M5000.3B 5-1-8
✔✔3 types of breaking waves - ✔✔Spilling, surging, plunging
✔✔3 min rule - ✔✔Speed (kts) *100=distance in yards traveled in 3 mins
✔✔6 min rule - ✔✔Speed (kts) * 10= distance in NM traveled in 6mins
✔✔Time speed distance - ✔✔60(distance)/(speed)=time
VS search
Speed=60D/9minutes(time)
✔✔Two types of stability - ✔✔Longitudinal (fore and aft)
Transverse (pitch poling)
✔✔Two forces that affect stability - ✔✔Static (within hull)
Dynamic (outside hull)
✔✔Variation - ✔✔Difference between true and magnetic north
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔PPE weather - ✔✔Water below 60=dry suit
Water above 60=ODUs, PFD
✔✔Drifting search patterns - ✔✔Expanding square, VS
✔✔Precision search - ✔✔Parallel, creep
✔✔mammalian dive reflex - ✔✔Can survive in cold water, blood flow slows down
✔✔Bends - ✔✔Air bubble in blood
✔✔Spring tide - ✔✔Unusually high or low tide
✔✔Medico - ✔✔Medical advice
✔✔Fetch - ✔✔Distance wind travels on the sea uninterrupted
✔✔Saddle - ✔✔Back of wave
✔✔Close out - ✔✔Way wave is breaking towards
✔✔Righting moment - ✔✔Moment before it rerights itself (furthest it will list)
✔✔Slip - ✔✔Difference between theoretical pitch and actual pitch (non-perfect medium,
cavitation, etc)
✔✔Rule 35 - ✔✔Sound signals in restricted visibility
✔✔SPE - ✔✔Severity, probability, exposure
✔✔Salvage policy - ✔✔
✔✔5 stages of sar - ✔✔Awareness
Initial action
Planning
Operations
Conclusion
✔✔3 phases of sar - ✔✔Uncertanty-doubt
Alert-aprehesion
Distress-danger
, ✔✔Responsibilities - ✔✔Safty of passangers and crew
Safe operation/navigation of boat assigned
Completion of sortie or mission
Report hazards to life or property
Report violations of laws and regulations
Report aton discrepencies
✔✔Elements of team coordination - ✔✔Situational awareness
Assertiveness
Decision making
Communication
Leadership
Adaptability
Mission analysis
✔✔Operational risk management 7 steps - ✔✔Identify mission tasks
Identify hazards (PEACE)
Asses risks
Identify options (STAAR)
Evaluate rish vs gain
Execute decisions
Monitor situations
✔✔Coxswain authority comes from - ✔✔M5000.3B 5-1-8
✔✔3 types of breaking waves - ✔✔Spilling, surging, plunging
✔✔3 min rule - ✔✔Speed (kts) *100=distance in yards traveled in 3 mins
✔✔6 min rule - ✔✔Speed (kts) * 10= distance in NM traveled in 6mins
✔✔Time speed distance - ✔✔60(distance)/(speed)=time
VS search
Speed=60D/9minutes(time)
✔✔Two types of stability - ✔✔Longitudinal (fore and aft)
Transverse (pitch poling)
✔✔Two forces that affect stability - ✔✔Static (within hull)
Dynamic (outside hull)
✔✔Variation - ✔✔Difference between true and magnetic north
