BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND By radar alone, you detect a vessel ahead on a collision course, about 3 miles distant. Your radar plot shows this to be a meeting situation. You should __________.
Official USCG Answer & Rule Citation
Correct Answer: Option D — turn to starboard
Rule 14 mandates that when two power-driven vessels are meeting on reciprocal or near-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.
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