Lessons Learned
If you have studied the COLREGS, aka Rules of The Road, then you know that those 38 rules apply to "all vessels." It makes no difference what size vessel you are operating. We share the same waterways.
Even though the yacht that you normally operate is less than 50', studying casualty reports involving larger vessels is time well spent. It sometimes allows a mariner to put themselves in the shoes of another and vicariously ask themselves the question "what would I have done?"
The recently published, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) publication “Safer Seas 2014: Lessons Learned from Marine Accident Investigations” includes 23 reports completed last year covering towing and passenger vessels as well as OSVs, tankers and fishing boats.
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