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Una Marca Especial será de color:A Special Mark will be coloured:
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Correct answer: a) Yellow.
Why it is correct
A special mark is yellow, with a yellow X topmark and a yellow light if fitted.
IALA World Regions: Region A covers Europe (including Spain), Africa, Oceania and Asia (except Japan, South Korea and the Philippines); when entering from seaward, keep RED (can) marks to PORT and GREEN (cone) marks to STARBOARD. Region B covers the Americas (North, Central and South), Japan, South Korea and the Philippines; lateral colours are reversed (GREEN to port and RED to starboard when entering), while keeping the same shapes (can to port, cone to starboard) and identical cardinal, isolated danger, safe water and special marks.
Why the others are not
- b) Red is a port hand lateral mark.
- c) Red and black is an isolated danger.
- d) No mark combines red and yellow.
How to work it out in the exam
- All yellow: body, topmark and light.
Where this question comes from
- Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · 2021 · Convocatoria de abril · PER Test 3 · question 16 Official paper · Official answer key
- Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · 2021 · Convocatoria de abril · PER Test 5 · question 16 Official paper · Official answer key
- Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · 2021 · Convocatoria de febrero · PER Test 5 · question 17 Official paper · Official answer key
Regulations
Pending instructor review. Machine translation, not reviewed.