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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
- Two long: power stopped.
Where this question comes from
- Junta de Andalucía · 2025 · 3ª convocatoria · PER Modelo A · question 23 Official paper · Official answer key
- Junta de Andalucía · 2025 · 3ª convocatoria · PER Modelo B · question 21 Official paper · Official answer key
Regulations
- IMO: Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (COLREGs) · Rule 35
- RIPA, consolidated text (BOE) · Rule 35
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