🔍 Key Concepts
• 46 CFR passenger vessel reporting requirements for marine casualties such as groundings
• Difference between immediate notification and later written reports (e.g., CG‑2692)
• Whether a grounding itself, even without injuries or large property damage, is a reportable marine casualty for a certificated passenger vessel
💭 Think About
• Consider whether the duty to notify depends only on the consequences (injury, death, dollar amount of damage) or on the type of incident (grounding of a passenger vessel)
• Think about why the Coast Guard would want to know about a grounding of a 500‑GT passenger vessel on rivers, even if there were no injuries or obvious damage
• Ask yourself which choice best reflects a safety‑focused, proactive reporting requirement rather than a minimal, damage‑based threshold
✅ Before You Answer
• Verify in 46 CFR Subchapter H (passenger vessels) how a grounding is classified (marine casualty) and what the master’s immediate notification duties are
• Check whether the regulation mentions any threshold of damage, injuries, or deaths for notification of a grounding, or if those thresholds apply only to written reporting and investigations
• Confirm that the correct answer requires contacting the Coast Guard promptly and not only in special outcomes like death, injury, or high repair cost