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RULE 14 - HEAD-ON
RULE 15 - CROSSING SITUATIONS
Rule 14
(a) Unless otherwise agreed [Inld]
When two power-driven vessels are meeting on reciprocal or
nearly reciprocal courses so as to involve risk of collision each
shall alter her course to starboard so that each shall pass on the
port side of the other.
(b)
Such a situation shall be deemed to exist when a vessel sees
the other ahead or nearly ahead and by night she could see the masthead
lights of the other in a line or nearly in a line and/ [Intl]
or both sidelights and by day she observes the corresponding aspect
of the other vessel.
(c)
When a vessel is in any doubt as to whether such a situation
exists she shall assume that it does exist and act accordingly.
(d)
Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this Rule, a power-driven
vessel operating on the Great
Lakes, Western
Rivers, or waters specified
by the Secretary, and proceeding downbound with a following
current shall have the right-of-way over an upbound vessel, shall
propose the manner of passage, and shall initiate the maneuvering
signals prescribed by Rule 34(a)(i), as appropriate. [Inld]
Rule 15
When two power-driven
vessels are crossing so as to involve risk of collision, the
vessel which has the other on her own starboard side shall keep
out of the way and shall, if the circumstances of the case admit,
avoid crossing ahead of the other vessel.
(b)
Notwithstanding
paragraph (a), on the Great
Lakes, Western
Rivers, or water specified
by the Secretary, a power-driven vessel crossing a river shall
keep out of the way of a power-driven vessel ascending or descending
the river. [Inld]
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