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Collision at Sea
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2010
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Although only a small percentage of the world's total tonnage is involved, the number of collisions which take place at sea each year is large. There must also be a fairly large number of ‘near misses’, and, daily, officers have to consider the implications of situations which could give rise to collision. It is by no means certain that all seafarers put the same interpretation on the Collision Regulations or on such phrases as ‘the ordinary practice of seamen’, ‘ample time’ &c. Indeed, with some 1600 to 1850 collisions each year, it is almost certain that they do not.
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