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. Which action should you take?

Correct Answer: Option A — turn to starboard

Rule 14 mandates that when two power-driven vessels are meeting on reciprocal or nearly reciprocal courses involving risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard so that each shall pass on the port side of the other. Radar detection does not exempt a vessel from this requirement.