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Las marcas de aguas navegables pueden utilizarse para indicar:Safe water marks may be used to show:
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Correct answer: b) The entrance to a channel.
Why it is correct
Safe water marks show landfalls, centrelines or channel entrances. Safe water lies all round.
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
- a) Special.
- c) Laterals.
- d) Cardinals.
How to work it out in the exam
- Safe water: entrance or centreline.
Where this question comes from
- Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · 2022 · Convocatoria de abril · PER Test 1 · question 17 Official paper · Official answer key
- Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · 2022 · Convocatoria de abril · PER Test 2 · question 17 Official paper · Official answer key
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