
Guide to the Collision Avoidance Rules
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Description
Key Features
* The definitive text for all concerned with both the practical and legal aspects of marine safety
* Includes a colour section with examples of ships' lights to aid recognition of signals
Readership
Academic: Nautical college students and those studying for professional marine qualifications, in particular anyone preparing for a watch keeping certificate of competency exam. Students of shipping management, marine and ocean engineering and maritime administration.
Table of Contents
- Foreword; Preface; Collisions and the courts; History of the collision regulations; Part A, General Rules; Part B, Steering and sailing rules; Part C, Lights and shapes; Part D, Sound and lights signals; Selected examples of ships' lights; Part E, Exemptions; Annexes to the Rules; International convention regulation on standards of training, navigational certification and watchkeeping; IMO recommendations; Table for use in assessing risk of collision; Manoeuvring to avoid collision; Ships referred to in the text; Index.
Product details
- No. of pages: 272
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2003
- Published: November 11, 2003
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- eBook ISBN: 9780080521923
About the Authors
A Cockcroft

Affiliations and Expertise
J Lameijer

As a representative of the Netherlands Administration Jan has been active for about 35 years in working groups of the Sub-Committee of Safety of Navigation, concerning COLREGS and Ships' Routeing. For more than 10 years Jan acted as chairman of NAV-subcommittee working group on ships routeing.
In recognition contributions to navigation, The Council of the Royal Institute of Navigation awarded Jan the Institutes Gold Medal for the year 2004.
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