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Fuel, lubrication, cooling, starting, exhaust, gearbox and shaft, bilge, fire and breakdowns at sea. Every topic has its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 64 illustrated pages.
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Every page has one large drawing and a box with the order, the checks and the figures you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 60 topics.
The examiner slides a cooling diagram across the table and asks you to take him through it. You've traced those pipes on board a hundred times, but now the words won't come out in order.
The course notes give it to you in paragraphs: raw water, fresh water, thermostat, header tank, all in one long block. Nothing shows where one circuit ends and the other begins, so in your head the two sides blur into one.
In the book it's a single page. Raw water on one side, open to the sea. Fresh water on the other, closed. They meet in one place only: the heat exchanger. Seacock, strainer, impeller and exhaust on one side; pump, thermostat and header tank on the other.
The same goes for the fuel route from tank to injector, the oil route from sump to bearing, exhaust smoke colours, the 15 ppm limit and overheating at sea: each one has its own page.
You follow the drawing in your head and explain it in the same order, every time. No going back to the manual halfway through your answer.
How a marine diesel works, fuel, lubrication, cooling, starting and exhaust, gearbox and shaft, bilge, pollution and fire, breakdowns at sea and the oral itself: 64 pages, all illustrated
Think of it this way:
You're in the oral and the examiner says: temperature alarm at sea, what do you check first? He wants the order, not a guess.
You went through that page the night before, so the checks come back drawn in sequence: seacock, strainer, impeller, then coolant, thermostat, belt and heat exchanger. You answer in that order.
The same with bleeding the fuel, the raw and fresh water sides, smoke colours, the oily water separator and won't-start faults: each one on its own page.
MEOL Marine Diesel Illustrated is 9 parts and 60 topics, all drawn, and it ends with how the oral runs, a four-step way to explain any system and a final checklist.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
The four strokes, why a diesel needs no spark, two-stroke vs four-stroke, the parts inside the block, valve gear, turbo and firing order.
The fuel route from tank to injector, sounding and the quick-closing valve, water and diesel bug, filters, injection pump, injectors, bleeding and the governor.
The oil route from sump to bearing, pump and relief valve, cooler and filter, reading the gauges, the dipstick and oil changes.
Raw water vs fresh water side, the route from seacock to exhaust, the impeller, thermostat, header tank, anodes and keel cooling.
Electric starting, batteries and isolation, air starting, intake and ventilation, wet exhaust and anti-siphon, and smoke colours.
Ahead, neutral and astern, coupling and shaft, stern gland, propeller and cutless bearing, alignment and hydraulic steering.
Bilge system, the oily water separator and 15 ppm, the Oil Record Book, discharges, bunkering, engine room fire, fixed systems, safe working and the watch log.
Overheating, low oil pressure, fuel starvation, won't start, sudden stops, knocks and vibration, and water where it shouldn't be, each as a case solved step by step.
How the MEOL oral runs, explaining any system in four steps, answering 'what would you do if…' and a final checklist.
At the end of the book: Breakdowns at sea as solved cases, a four-step way to explain any system and a final checklist before the oral.
Practise out loud with oral-style questions on every engine system, each with a short model answer, so the real thing doesn't catch you cold.
See the 15 most common mistakes (bleeding air in the wrong order, mixing up the raw and fresh water sides, ignoring smoke colour) drawn wrong and right, side by side.
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Each system the course covers sits on its own page, drawn in section, so what you hear in class has somewhere to land.
You run through every system in the same order, from where it starts to what fails, and practise the 'what would you do if…' questions out loud.
You know it by ear and by hand; the book puts it in order, so you can explain it as well as you can fix it.
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Yes. It isn't a beginner's book: it puts what you already do into the order the oral asks for, system by system, with the breakdowns as solved cases.
It follows the MEOL syllabus published by the MCA in MSN 1859 and its amendments, with MARPOL Annex I and The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) Regulations 2019 (SI 2019/42) for the pollution topics. It's UK material, not a generic engine book. Sitting MEOL (Small Vessel) or Senior MEOL? Compare the 9 parts in the contents above with your own syllabus before you buy. Always check regulatory details against the current MCA version.
No. It's independent study material and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the MCA or any approved training centre.
No. It's a study companion for the course and the oral. It doesn't give you a certificate, doesn't count as sea service or course time, and doesn't replace the manufacturer's manual for your engine.
No. The oral-style questions are written for this book to help you practise out loud. They are not official exam questions.
The book and the 2 free books arrive as PDFs by email, at the address you enter when you pay.
No. It's a one-off payment. No subscription.
We don't post a printed copy: you get the PDF by email, and it's made to print at home or at a print shop. Keep a copy on board or in your bag for the course.
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No more rereading with nothing sticking.
The raw and fresh water sides: you see them drawn and that's it.
You walk into the oral knowing where everything is.
Drawings make studying faster.
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