100+ Free Gente de Mar Practice Questions

It is the assessment through which Chilean seafarers obtain their professional maritime title. Article 48 of D.S. (M) N° 127 of 2019 (TM-007) provides that the Dirección General establishes, by reasoned resolution, the competency evaluation or examination required for each title, and appoints the examining commissions and their rules of operation. Passing it is one of the requirements for the naves menores titles and for the naves mayores rating titles.

Article 52 sets the standards on a scale of 1 to 10: a minimum mark of 6.0 for the written applied evaluation and 8.0 for the practical competency evaluation. For the examination leading to the titles of Patrón de Nave Menor, Tripulante de Cubierta de Nave Menor and Tripulante de Máquinas de Nave Menor, the required minimum is 6.0 on the same 1 to 10 scale. Chile's familiar 1 to 7 school scale is not the scale used here.

Under article 51 the competency evaluations and examinations are held at least during the second half of April, July and October each year, without prejudice to other periods the Dirección General may set in advance. Under article 49 candidates must lodge their application at least twenty days before the date fixed, although the Maritime Authority may accept a shorter period.

Directemar's trámite page lists an application form, a photocopy of the identity card, a criminal record certificate no more than 60 days old, proof that the military service situation is in order, a medical certificate, an AFP certificate confirming the applicant is not retired on grounds of invalidity, and three colour passport photographs. The applicant must be at least 18, Chilean or naturalised, without conviction for a crime or simple offence, and must possess professional competence and seamanlike aptitude as assessed by the Maritime Authority.

TM-007 defines the título profesional marítimo as the document issued by the Director General, or by the Capitán de Puerto where applicable, that entitles the holder to serve on board in the posts and with the powers laid down for each case — and it adds that for ratings the expressions 'título' and 'matrícula' are to be understood as equivalent. In practice 'matrícula' still names the registration of ratings, patrones and tripulantes de nave menor while 'título' is used for officers, but for ratings the two are not opposed legal categories.

Article 43 sets two separate cycles. Physical fitness must be re-demonstrated every two years, through the Annex A medical examination for naves mayores personnel or Annex B for naves menores, together with a certificate from the seafarer's pension body. Separately, gente de mar serving on naves mayores must show continued professional competence every five years, either by accrediting at least one year of sea service within that period or by passing the competency evaluation set by the Dirección General; anyone who has not sailed on naves mayores for more than five years must first pass refresher courses.

Article 106 of the Código del Trabajo sets the weekly hours of gente de mar at 56, distributed in eight hours a day. Article 116 provides that the minimum rest may not be less than ten hours within each 24-hour period, that it may be divided into no more than two periods one of which must be at least eight uninterrupted hours, and that the interval between two consecutive rest periods may not exceed fourteen hours.

No. The official assessments are conducted in Spanish and Directemar publishes neither the papers nor a blueprint. These 100 English-language multiple-choice questions are a study adaptation of the knowledge the titles require, intended to build the underlying understanding. They are not an official translation, and they cannot substitute for the practical competency evaluation or for the sea service the regulation requires.