Description
Collisions: How to Avoid Them – The Essential Guide to COLREGs Compliance and Loss Prevention for Marine Professionals
Collisions: How to Avoid Them is essential to COLREGs compliance and loss prevention for marine professionals. It provides practical advice on the key collision avoidance rules and the influence of electronic aids on navigation. The guide also provides collision case studies and simple plotting sheets that may be used to illustrate developing situations while on watch.
What you will learn from this ebook:
- Stay up-to-date with the latest COLREG regulations
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the key collision avoidance rules
- Improve your skills in watchkeeping and collision avoidance
- Reduce the risk of a collision
- Prepare for your next voyage with confidence
- Contribute to the safe and efficient operation of ships
- Collisions are a major cause of maritime accidents, with significant loss of life and property.
- The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs) are the international standards for collision avoidance.
- COLREGs are complex and can be difficult to understand.
- This book provides practical advice on complying with COLREGs and avoiding collisions.
- The book includes collision case studies and simple plotting sheets that can be used to illustrate developing situations.
- This book is an essential resource for all Masters, officers, watchkeepers of ships, and marine safety professionals.
Contents Listing:
THE RULES
Rule 2: Responsibility
Rule 5: Look-out
Rule 6: Safe speed
Rule 7: Risk of collision
Rule 8: Action to avoid collision
Rule 10: Traffic separation schemes
Rule 13: Overtaking
Rule 14: Head-on situation
Rule 15: Crossing situation
Rule 16: Action by give-way vessel
Rule 17: Action by stand-on vessel
Rule 19: Conduct of vessels in restricted visibility
CASE STUDIES
Introduction
Case Study 1. Who started this?
Case Study 2. Is it good to talk?
Case Study 3. What were they thinking?
Case Study 4. Watch out astern
Case Study 5. To cross or not to cross?
Case Study 6. Fishing?
PLOTTING SHEETS
Plotting Sheet 1. Open sea
Plotting Sheet 2. Traffic separation scheme
Plotting Sheet 3. Coastal waters