USCG COXSWAIN EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔Peace (risk vs gain) - ✔✔Planning
Event complexity
Asset selection
Communication
Environment
✔✔Thru hull fittings on sea chest - ✔✔2 raw water
P6 stand pipe
Hvac/a/c
2 deicing
✔✔Waas/dgps - ✔✔Wide area augmentation system/ differential global positioning
receiver
✔✔Engines - ✔✔Detroit diesel series 60
825hp at 2300rpm
Inline 6 cylinder
4 stroke
Oil-43qts 15w40
✔✔Firefighting - ✔✔Beginning stages
Protect waterfront
Save a life
Fire officer
✔✔Heavy weather - ✔✔Seas 8+
Winds 30+
✔✔Mayday - ✔✔Imminent danger to life
✔✔UMIB - ✔✔Distress or potential distress
✔✔Creeping line - ✔✔Search object is more likely to be at one end of the search area
then the other
✔✔Generators - ✔✔Auragen viper g8500x
2 total
Belt driven
✔✔Two primary forces that affect stability - ✔✔Gravity and buoyancy
, ✔✔Stability - ✔✔The tendency of a vessel to remain upright
✔✔Definition of SAR - ✔✔Prevent death or injury to persons and loss or damage to
property in the marine environment
✔✔Hydrolics - ✔✔Port- steering, bucket, interceptors
Starboard-reverse, interceptors
9 gallons 1 filter
✔✔FLIR - ✔✔360 degree pan
45 degree tilt
2 x zoom =200m
Black hot
Red hot
White hot
Night running
Day running
MOB
Night dock
✔✔Safe towing speed - ✔✔Square root of the length at the waterline (feet) * 1.34 -
10%= (knots)
✔✔Frame numbers
Frame spacing - ✔✔Transom-2 laz
2-7 engine room
7-10 amc
10-14 survivors
14-17 forepeak
0-2=24"
2-17=28"
✔✔Statutory authority for SAR - ✔✔Promote safety on, over, under high seas
✔✔2 SAR program goals - ✔✔Prevent death/injury
Prevent loss/damage to property
✔✔3 objectives for SAR program - ✔✔Minimize loss
Minimize crew risk
Maximize resources
✔✔MSAP (Martime SAR assistance policy of 1982) - ✔✔Can prevent a situation from
worsening
Prevent complete loss of a vessel
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔Peace (risk vs gain) - ✔✔Planning
Event complexity
Asset selection
Communication
Environment
✔✔Thru hull fittings on sea chest - ✔✔2 raw water
P6 stand pipe
Hvac/a/c
2 deicing
✔✔Waas/dgps - ✔✔Wide area augmentation system/ differential global positioning
receiver
✔✔Engines - ✔✔Detroit diesel series 60
825hp at 2300rpm
Inline 6 cylinder
4 stroke
Oil-43qts 15w40
✔✔Firefighting - ✔✔Beginning stages
Protect waterfront
Save a life
Fire officer
✔✔Heavy weather - ✔✔Seas 8+
Winds 30+
✔✔Mayday - ✔✔Imminent danger to life
✔✔UMIB - ✔✔Distress or potential distress
✔✔Creeping line - ✔✔Search object is more likely to be at one end of the search area
then the other
✔✔Generators - ✔✔Auragen viper g8500x
2 total
Belt driven
✔✔Two primary forces that affect stability - ✔✔Gravity and buoyancy
, ✔✔Stability - ✔✔The tendency of a vessel to remain upright
✔✔Definition of SAR - ✔✔Prevent death or injury to persons and loss or damage to
property in the marine environment
✔✔Hydrolics - ✔✔Port- steering, bucket, interceptors
Starboard-reverse, interceptors
9 gallons 1 filter
✔✔FLIR - ✔✔360 degree pan
45 degree tilt
2 x zoom =200m
Black hot
Red hot
White hot
Night running
Day running
MOB
Night dock
✔✔Safe towing speed - ✔✔Square root of the length at the waterline (feet) * 1.34 -
10%= (knots)
✔✔Frame numbers
Frame spacing - ✔✔Transom-2 laz
2-7 engine room
7-10 amc
10-14 survivors
14-17 forepeak
0-2=24"
2-17=28"
✔✔Statutory authority for SAR - ✔✔Promote safety on, over, under high seas
✔✔2 SAR program goals - ✔✔Prevent death/injury
Prevent loss/damage to property
✔✔3 objectives for SAR program - ✔✔Minimize loss
Minimize crew risk
Maximize resources
✔✔MSAP (Martime SAR assistance policy of 1982) - ✔✔Can prevent a situation from
worsening
Prevent complete loss of a vessel
