Good luck to the class of 2009

Colleges and Universities A-Z Merchant Marine Academy - Kings Point
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<p>Good Luck to the Class of 2009 as, within the hour, they begin their first of seven Coast Guard License Exams. You are all in my thoughts and prayers.</p>

<p>Hopefully by 1300 hours on Friday all of you will be "ringing the bell".</p>

<p>GOOD LUCK </p>

<p>Does anyone know the link to watch the bell ringing online?</p>

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<p>It was posted last year as well as a file you could download after the event to watch and keep. I would think that it would be there again this year.</p>

<p>Best of Luck to All</p>

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<p>Ditto to the good luck. I have my lucky horse shoe, a Buddha, a four leaf clover, an Indian medicine bag, two bottles of Merlot & 5 lbs. of chocolate. I guess I’m ready for this week’s anxieties to begin. Just doin’ my part to help. :smiley: </p>

<p>The parents’ assoc. page usually puts the link to the bell ringing on their website. Fingers crossed they’ll do it again this year.</p>

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<p>Where’s Waldo? I mean my DS. </p>

<p>check it out</p>

<p>[USMMA</a> Parents Page](<a href=“http://www.usmma.edu/parents]USMMA”>http://www.usmma.edu/parents)</p>

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<p>Is the Exam open book? If not what are all the books on each desk?</p>

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<p>With the exception of Rules of the Road, all the exams are open book. We are allowed to bring in Bowditch 2 along with our plotting gear. The USCG provides the CFR’s, light list, coast pilot, tide tables, nautical almanac, pub. 102, pub. 117, sight reduction tables, chemical data guide and the ship’s stability book.</p>

<p>The CFR’s are for looking up shipping and other safety regulations. The rest of the books are needed to either look up or solve navigation problems.</p>

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<p>How about for engineers? What do they have?</p>

<p>Also, here is the link to the camera that will be on Friday to watch the bell ringing:</p>

<p><a href=“http://powerlink.powerstream.net/003/02417/live1.asx[/url]”>http://powerlink.powerstream.net/003/02417/live1.asx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The engineers only have the CFR’s and a calculator. From what I have been told, most of their look up questions have to do with lifesaving and safety, but occasionally some random machinery regulation questions here and there.</p>

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<p>What is a Bowditch 2?</p>

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<p>Bowditch 2 is a book full of good information. There are 2 volumes to the book, hence the 2 designation. It has various tables and equations and stuff like that, mainly for navigation type info.</p>