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The Revision of the Rules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

J. García-Frías
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If the present Collision Regulations are defective, it is largely because the principles underlying them are not sufficiently developed for today's circumstances. In this paper Admiral García-Frías of the Spanish Navy attempts such a development and proposes a new set of rules, adapted to present circumstances, for vessels in sight of one another. These proposals, with the set of rules previously suggested in this Journal for restricted visibility using radar, form a complete system for avoiding collisions in both situations so that it would be easy to pass safely from one situation to the other when necessary, because of the unity of principles they present.

It is encouraging for certain schools of thought—which started some years ago advocating the revision of the Collision Regulations for occasions when radar was being used in restricted visibility—that there now seems to be a general dissatisfaction amongst seafarers with the lack of guidance provided in the rules. Consequently, they are at last interested in a fundamental review of the Regulations.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , January 1970 , pp. 71 - 80
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1970

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