Bridgedeck Study vs HELM

Bridgedeck Study is the voice-first way to prepare for your UK MCA deck officer oral exam. Speak your answers out loud to an AI examiner that questions, probes and follows up like the real thing — for OOW Unlimited and OOW Yachts 3000 GT. PRACTISE OUT LOUD - Full mock orals (90 or 120 minutes) that pace and probe like a real MCA oral - Topic drills (10–60 minutes) to build mastery in one area at a time - An examiner that asks follow-ups, escalates scenarios and expects no second chances on the safety-critical topics BUILT ON REAL ORALS - Question bank grounded in hundreds of real candidate exam reports from UK exam centres - MCA-aligned syllabus coverage: COLREGs, buoyage, lights and shapes, stability, cargo work, emergencies, legislation and more - Model answers with citations to the underlying regulations KNOW WHERE YOU STAND - Every answer scored, with a full transcript after each session - Topic-by-topic mastery tracking and an overall readiness score - Countdown and progress against your booked exam date PART A AND FLASHCARDS - Flashcards are free — the full deck, no subscription needed - Part A multiple-choice practice papers in the MIN 690 format, with per-topic pass thresholds (OOW Unlimited) TRY IT FREE - 15 minutes of free voice practice — no card required - Your voice is never stored: audio streams live and only the text transcript is kept WHO IT'S FOR - OOW Unlimited (STCW II/1) oral candidates - OOW Yachts 3000 GT oral candidates - Cadets and crew building towards their first deck officer ticket Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Auto-renewing subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.bridgedeck.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.bridgedeck.app/privacy

The ticket comes down to one conversation: the MCA oral examination. HELM is built for it — and for the years after it. HELM is a revision app for the MCA Officer of the Watch (Yachts) less than 3000gt certificate. The bridge between deckhand and officer. MOCK EXAMS — TEST WHAT YOU KNOW Timed mock exams under real conditions, across the whole syllabus: multiple choice, true/false, matching and fill-in-the-blank, with a worked explanation on every question. Sit a full paper or drill a single module. THE ORAL — REHEARSE IT OUT LOUD The AI Oral Examiner runs a spoken mock oral assessment. It presses for detail when an answer is thin, holds you to the standard an examiner would, and gives you a written breakdown afterwards: what you got right, what you missed, and the rule you should have cited. Four sittings a month, without booking anyone's time. LEARN THE SYLLABUS PROPERLY Sixteen modules covering the full OOW Yachts syllabus: • Navigation & Passage Planning • COLREGs — Rules of the Road • Lights, Shapes & Sound Signals • Buoyage — IALA • Bridge Watchkeeping & BRM • Meteorology • Stability & Watertight Integrity • Yacht Construction & Equipment • Anchoring, Berthing & Ship Handling • Tenders, Toys & Guest Operations • Safety & SOLAS • Firefighting & Emergencies • Pollution Prevention & MARPOL • ISM, MLC, Flag & Survey • Communications & GMDSS • Signals & Distress Lessons are typeset to be read rather than skimmed, with diagrams drawn to explain rather than decorate. DRILL UNTIL IT STICKS Spaced-repetition flashcards scheduled by the SM-2 algorithm, so a card comes back just before you would have forgotten it. What you find hard comes back more often. KNOW WHERE YOU STAND Readiness tracking across every module, so you can tell the difference between feeling ready and being ready. FOR JUNIOR OFFICERS, NOT ONLY CANDIDATES Passing is the start, not the finish. HELM stays on your phone afterwards as a revision companion: the full text of the Rules, lights and shapes, buoyage, signals and the sea scales, all searchable and all offline. Junior officers use it to keep the theory sharp between tickets and to check a detail without hunting through a publication. WORKS AT SEA Lessons, flashcards, mock papers and the whole quick reference run in airplane mode. Mid-ocean, in a lift, on a delivery — it does not matter. Only the AI Oral Examiner needs a connection. QUICK REFERENCE, ALWAYS TO HAND • COLREGs — Rules 1-38 and Annexes I-IV, full text, searchable • Lights & shapes — an interactive atlas, every examinable configuration from three aspects • IALA buoyage, Regions A and B • Sound & light signals • International Code of Signals — single and multi-letter • VHF channels • Beaufort scale and Douglas sea scale • Cloud recognition START WITH COLREGS, INCLUDED IN FULL The entire COLREGs module — lessons, flashcards and mock exam questions — is yours from the moment you install, offline, without an account. A subscription unlocks the remaining fifteen modules and the AI Oral Examiner. IN YOUR LANGUAGE The interface is available in Afrikaans, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian. Syllabus content stays in English, because English is the language of the exam. A built-in glossary gives you the English term with its definition in your own language, so nothing is lost in translation on the day. HELM is study, revision and reference material. It is not for operational navigation or decision-making at sea, and it is not an official MCA product. Azimuth Systems Ltd is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. Terms of Use: https://www.azimuthsystemsltd.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://www.azimuthsystemsltd.com/privacy-policy