Crossing situation at sea: who gives way under the COLREGs (Rules 15, 16 and 17)
Two vessels are navigating in sight of one another on courses that intersect, and the distance between them is closing....
Sea Areas A1, A2, A3 and A4: What Radio Equipment the GMDSS Requires in Each
If a shipowner, a student or the head of a maritime academy looks up what radio equipment a ship needs,...
Navigation lights: how to tell which way a ship is heading at night
Navigation lights are first learned as a catalogue, and rightly so: until you know what the vessel is, there is...
Man overboard: the first sixty seconds are not the manoeuvre
In training courses, "man overboard" is a manoeuvre. It gets drawn on the board, each variant has its own name,...
The distress button is pressed and the radio switches to 16: what do you say, and in what order
The red button on a VHF is explained in thirty seconds: lift the cover, hold it down, the alert goes...
How often an EPIRB battery is replaced (and the two other dates nobody checks)
An EPIRB is taught as a device that gets activated. What it is, where it is mounted, how it is...