Your vessel has just received a distress message. As the master of the vessel, when are you relieved of your obligation to assist in the search and rescue operations?

Correct Answer: Option C — if you are informed by the persons in distress or by the master of another on scene vessel that assistance is no longer required

SOLAS Chapter V, Regulation 33 dictates that a master is legally obligated to render assistance to persons in distress. This obligation ceases only when the master is informed by the survivors or the master of another coordinating vessel that assistance is no longer required.