Whatever became of the change to COLREGS Rule 8?

摘要

With little fanfare or noticeable training effort, the nations party to the 1972 COLREGS Convention amended Rule 8 (a) in November 2003 in order to reduce the number of collisions attributable to "conflicting action" by two approaching vessels. Yet over three years later, it is difficult to find a mariner who can identify or explain the 2003 change, or a "conflicting action" collision for that matter.