International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea

This book was written chiefly for commercial navigation and yachting and is also useful to those in charge of the watch on other vessels.

This book helps students as well as graduates of all establishments of maritime education.

Each Rule is commented on in some detail in order to make the official and rigid language peculiar to legal texts easier to understand.

Each situation is depicted as realistically as possible with the help of illustrations. The coloured drawings represent the various combinations of lights and shapes which are encountered at sea.

The following aspects of the Regulations are covered:-

1. The use of radar
2. Traffic separation schemes
3. The various fishing methods
4. Navigation in restricted visibility and in fog
5. The additional lights and shapes which can occur outside the cases foreseen in the Rules.

Several Rules have been supplemented by a number of Marine Guidance Notes (MGN) which are published by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (mca). It contains IMO-amendments of 1981, 1987, 1989, 1993 and 2001.

Publisher: MARITIMEKNOWHOW – A world of Knowledge
Author – P. Deseck
Pages 409