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INLAND ONLY Your vessel is proceeding down a channel, and can safely navigate only within the channel. Another vessel is crossing your bow from port to starboard, and you are in doubt as to her intentions. Which statement is TRUE?

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🔍 Key Concepts

• Inland Navigation Rule 34 – Maneuvering and Warning Signals (especially when vessels are in sight of one another) • Meaning and use of the danger signal (five or more short and rapid blasts) • Special consideration for a vessel that can safely navigate only within a narrow channel when another vessel is crossing

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• When you are in doubt as to the other vessel’s intentions, what does Rule 34 say you must do with your whistle? • Look at which of the options describe normal maneuvering signals versus warning/danger signals. Which category applies when you are in doubt? • Ask yourself whether the use of the danger signal in this situation is left to the operator’s choice, or required by the rule.

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify in Rule 34 that five (or more) short and rapid blasts are the internationally recognized danger signal, and note how the Inland question may describe or imply this. • Check whether the rule’s language about the danger signal uses words like “shall” (required) or “may” (optional). • Confirm that the signals in choices A and B correspond to specific maneuvering intentions, and consider whether you are actually ready to indicate a maneuver when you are in doubt.

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