Exam Question

(a) The UMS monitoring and control system of your ship has recently started to give false alarms and incorrect data printouts. State, with reasons, possible causes if the false alarms and readings are:

(i) Localised to a particular area of engine operation

(ii) General to the engine room

(b) State, with reasons, the action you, as Second Engineer, would take to ensure continued safe operation of the vessel if the defects were general to the engine room

(c) Explain the procedure you, as Second Engineer, would adopt in order to locate and rectify a general fault in the UMS system.