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Si en condiciones de visibilidad reducida escuchamos por nuestro costado de babor grupos de dos pitadas largas separadas por un intervalo de unos dos segundos y que se repiten cada dos minutos como máximo, debemos entender que se trata de:In restricted visibility we hear on our port side groups of two prolonged blasts about two seconds apart, repeated at most every two minutes. It is:

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Correct answer: b) A power-driven vessel under way but stopped with no way

Why it is correct

Two prolonged blasts mean a power vessel stopped with no way. Making way she gives one.

Why the others are not

  • a) Not that signal.
  • c) Long and two short.
  • d) Long and two short.

How to work it out in the exam

  1. Two long: power stopped.

Where this question comes from

Regulations

Try it: Sound signals

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