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Nos encontramos navegando con nuestra embarcación de recreo cerca de la costa, de noche y con buena visibilidad. En ese momento avistamos con los prismáticos la silueta longitudinal de un buque que muestra: una luz blanca en la parte de proa, otra luz blanca en la zona de popa a una altura inferior a la de la proa, y dos luces rojas en línea vertical en la zona alta del palo. De acuerdo con la Regla 30 del RIPA, en esta situación debemos entender que se trata de un buque:Near the coast at night in good visibility, we see through binoculars a ship showing: a white light forward, another lower white light aft, and two red lights in a vertical line high on the mast. Under Rule 30 she is:
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Correct answer: d) Aground.
Why it is correct
Anchor lights plus two reds vertically mark a vessel aground. With only the whites she would be at anchor.
Why the others are not
- a) Three reds.
- b) Without the reds.
- c) Red-white-red.
How to work it out in the exam
- Anchor + two reds: aground.
Where this question comes from
- Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · 2026 · Convocatoria de abril · PER Test 1 · question 21 Official paper · Official answer key
- Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · 2026 · Convocatoria de abril · PER Test 3 · question 21 Official paper · Official answer key
Regulations
- IMO: Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (COLREGs) · Rule 30
- RIPA, consolidated text (BOE) · Rule 30
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