Your 1600 GRT vessel will be entering the...

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• 46 CFR Subchapter W – Lifesaving/Navigation and related voyage preparation requirements • Difference between what is good seamanship vs. what is explicitly required by regulation before entering U.S. waters • Which items in the options are required on a specific schedule or timing (e.g., within a certain number of hours)

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• Look at each choice and ask: Is this something I must do by law immediately before or prior to entering U.S. waters, or is it just a general good practice? • Decide which option has a clear regulatory timing requirement attached to it (for example, "no more than X hours before" a certain event). • Think about which of these actions would most directly affect immediate safety of navigation at the moment you are about to enter confined or coastal waters.

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• Verify which action is tied to a specific time window before entering U.S. waters in 46 CFR. • Check which options are ongoing requirements (must always be maintained) versus those that must be done shortly before arrival. • Confirm which option relates to testing critical control systems used to keep the vessel on course and under command.

Your 1600 GRT vessel will be entering the navigable waters of the United States. You are required by regulations to take which action?

Have a copy of Radio Navigational Aids in the pilot house

Correct the charts of the area to be transited using the Notice(s) to Mariners or equivalent reasonably available

Check the magnetic compass for the correct deviation

Test the primary and secondary steering systems no more than 8 hours before entering

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