Which of the following statements concerning...

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• GMDSS Sea Areas A1–A4 and how maintenance requirements change with wider operating areas • The three GMDSS maintenance options: duplication of equipment, shore-based maintenance, and at-sea maintenance capability • How warranties and shore-based contracts differ from actually meeting GMDSS ‘maintenance’ and ‘availability’ requirements

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• Ask yourself: As a vessel operates farther from shore (A1 to A4), do maintenance requirements usually become stricter, looser, or stay the same? How does that affect how many maintenance options are required? • Consider whether a manufacturer’s warranty alone guarantees that the equipment will actually be kept operational at sea according to GMDSS standards. • Think about what ‘shore-based maintenance’ means in practice: Does the regulation care where the ship is going, or that the equipment is kept operational before going to sea at all?

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• Verify from GMDSS rules how many maintenance options are required in Sea Areas A1–A2 versus Sea Areas A3–A4. • Check whether equipment warranties are explicitly mentioned as acceptable or not for meeting GMDSS maintenance requirements. • Confirm if shore-based maintenance obligations depend on the vessel’s destination (US vs non‑US ports) or on maintaining equipment in an operational state whenever the ship sails.

Which of the following statements concerning maintenance requirements is false?

Compulsory vessels sailing in Sea Areas A1 and A2 must provide any one of the three maintenance options which are duplication of equipment, shore-based, or at-sea maintenance capability.

Compulsory vessels sailing in Sea Areas A3 and A4 must provide any two of the three maintenance options which are duplication of equipment, shore-based, or at-sea maintenance capability.

Equipment warranties do not satisfy GMDSS maintenance requirements.

If shore-based maintenance is used , maintenance services do not have to be completed or performance verified unless the vessel will be sailing to a non-US port .

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