January 2025 Quiz – Prawle Point NCI quizzes

January 2025

This is the Watchkeeper quiz for January 2025. Happy New Year!

Don't forget: if you select an answer and then change your mind, first click on your original answer to clear the tick and then make your new selection.

You can take the quiz again until you are happy with your score.

The page numbers in this quiz are based on WKH 11 (November 2024) [view pdf]

The number of attempts remaining is 5

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Category: Plotting

You spot what looks like a metal container on a bearing of 150°T at a distance of 2.7nm (confirmed by radar) from PQ.

How long, after crossing The Bar, would it take Salcombe ILB doing 20kts speed over the ground to reach it?

If you are working from home you can access the Ready Reckoner from this page.

Choose ONE answer (worth 10 points)

a) 5 minutes

b) 8 minutes

c) 15 minutes

d) 25 minutes

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Category: General protocol

Which of these is the correct way of calling Falmouth Coastguard on Ch 0?

Choose ONE answer (10 points for a correct answer)

a) Falmouth Coastguard, Falmouth Coastguard, Falmouth Coastguard this is NCI Prawle Point, NCI Prawle Point. NCI Prawle Point, over

b) Falmouth Coastguard, Falmouth Coastguard this is Prawle Point NCI on Channel 0, come in please, over.

c) Falmouth Coastguard, Falmouth Coastguard, Falmouth Coastguard this is Prawle Point NCI, Prawle Point NCI, Prawle Point NCI, over

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Category: Activities & Incidents

You observe an unidentified fishing vessel lowering a small inflatable with several people on board which then appears to head for Lannacombe Bay and you are concerned about this about this and feel you should report it.

What action should you take?

Choose ONE answer (10 points for a correct answer)

a) Call the Police on 999

b) Report to UK Border Force

c) Report to Falmouth Coastguard on the routine number

d) Report to Salcombe Harbour office

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Category: Local knowledge

What is the correct Grid Reference for the pair of gates just inland of Horsley Cove?

Choose ONE answer (5 points for a correct answer)

[HINT you do not need to look at the OS map for the answer, use the WKH for 'local knowledge']

a) SX 785 359

b) SX 786 360

c) SX 780 355

d) SX 359 785

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Category: Radar / Vessel Tracker

When accessing target vessel information on the Radar, what do the letters CPA stand for?

Choose ONE answer (worth 10 points)

a) Closest Path Approach

b) Closest Point of Approach

c) Closest Projected Approach

d) Clear Point of Approach

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Category: Activities & Incidents

In which combination of wind and tide conditions is Salcombe Bar at its most dangerous for vessels entering/leaving Harbour?

Choose ONE answer (10 points)

a) Strong northerly winds, ebbing neap tides, below half tide

b) Strong south west winds, flooding spring tide

c) Strong north easterlies with spring ebb tide

d) Strong south easterly winds, spring ebb tides, below half tide

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Category: General protocol

A vessel calls “Prawle Point Coastwatch” on Ch 16 but there is no response from Falmouth CG. The vessel repeats the call and there is still no response from the CG. What action should you take?

Choose ONE answer (10 points for a correct answer, -5 points for an incorrect answer)

a) Acknowledge the request on Ch 16 and then ask them to pass their message

b) Tell the vessel to change to Ch 65 and then ask them to pass their message

c) If there’s no response from FCG after 2 calls from the vessel, phone the CG asking if we can call the vessel on Ch 16 and requesting they change to Ch 65

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Category: General protocol

A Gale Warning is given as “Sea areas Portland & Plymouth – south westerly gale force 8 expected soon”.

How soon would you expect it to arrive after the time of issue of the gale warning?

Choose ONE answer (5 points)

a) Within 6 to 12 hours

b) Within 12 hours

c) Within 3 hours

d) Within 3 to 6 hours

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Category: Plotting

A motor cruiser 'Mystic' calls Falmouth Coastguard to report that it is flooding rapidly and may have to abandon to a liferaft. Their position is: 50°12’.0N 003°48’.9W

You have logged CAC 'Anglo Dawn' working on a bearing of 125° 1.7nm from PQ and report to the Coastguard that you have the casualty visible and that 'Anglo Dawn' is the only nearby vessel able to assist.

What is the bearing and distance from 'Anglo Dawn' to 'Mystic'?

There is ONE correct answer (10 points for correct answer, 0 or -5 for an incorrect answer)

a) 100° 5.0nm

b) 275° 4.5nm

c) 280° 5.5nm

d) 280° 5.0nm

e) 280° 8.0nm

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Category: Activities & Incidents

In the previous example should yacht ‘Mystic’ have:

Choose ONE answer. 10 points for the correct answer, 0 or -5 points for an incorrect answer.

a) called a PAN PAN

b) called a MAYDAY

c) Neither, the call was fine just as it was

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Category: General protocol

What visibility can be expected when the Inshore forecast gives it as 'poor'?

Choose ONE answer (10 points)

a) Between 1000m and 2000m

b) Between 1000m and 2 nm

c) Less than 1 nm

d) Between 1 nm and 2 nm

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