Legislation

Two questions on legal duties.

Practise this unit

Key rules

SOLAS: whoever is able must help. Flag A: diver down, keep clear. Unbuoyed bathing area: under 3 knots.

In harbours, do not interfere with traffic or force vessels to manoeuvre.

Activities

Sort it outLicence limits, fire classes and signals: each in its group.
Decisions on boardFire, leaks, person overboard and more.

Questions in this unit

Under the definition of “marking device”, compulsory for diving without a boat or in unmarked areas, what does it consist of?
On safety and distress messages, mark the INCORRECT option.
All vessels except the support boat must keep a minimum safety distance from a diving area of:
With food waste on board that has NOT been ground, under MARPOL V Regulation 4, what is the MINIMUM distance from land to throw it overboard outside a special area?
In the International Code of Signals, flag “Alpha” flown alone means:
On coastal stretches without a buoyed bathing zone, a jet ski must generally NOT:
Compulsory civil liability insurance in force is required for:
CE-marked leisure craft up to 12 metres registered under article 8 of Royal Decree 1435/2010:
When must owners or operators of foreign leisure craft sailing in Spanish territorial and inland waters take out or prove civil liability insurance?
Sailing a private boat, you see a diver’s surface marker. What minimum safety distance must we keep from that diving area?
On a leisure boat you must carry proof of compulsory civil liability insurance. If the authorities ask and it is not on board, the policyholder must prove it is in force within:
Under Royal Decree 339/2021, article 22, a non-CE boat with fixed holding tanks must have a universal connection:
Under Royal Decree 339/2021, article 3, boats without CE marking may navigate:
Under SOLAS, a master who receives a distress alert but cannot help:
Under Royal Decree 339/2021, article 23, discharging sewage from leisure boats in Spanish waters is banned unless the boat discharges:
Under Order FOM/1144/2003, in rías, bays and similar, sewage discharge:
Under MARPOL Annex V, regulation 3, discharging cooking oil into the sea is banned:
Compulsory civil liability insurance covers the liability:
Every leisure boat owner must insure the civil liability arising from sailing the boat:
Beyond twelve miles, leisure boats may discharge sewage provided that:
If we see an International Code flag on a nearby boat, white and blue and swallow-tailed, it means:
Which flag must leisure boats fly?
Under MARPOL Annex V, regulation 2:
We receive a distress message from a boat with people in danger. Under SOLAS Chapter V, regulation 33, paragraph 1, we must:
Sewage may be discharged:
On Spanish leisure craft:
The Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance (SPAMI) are:
Under MARPOL Annex V, regulation 6, “discharge of garbage within special areas”, select the CORRECT answer.
Outside special areas, discharge of food waste that has passed through a comminuter or grinder is allowed:
Under the Spanish Ports and Merchant Navy Act, for marine pollution offences:
On sighting pollution while sailing:
Anyone handling a foreign-flagged leisure boat in waters under Spanish jurisdiction must hold a qualification. Accordingly:
To handle a leisure boat you must pass a psychophysical check that:
Limits on navigation at buoyed beaches. Navigation is banned within:
Under the Spanish Ports and Merchant Navy Act, breaking the regulations or the Harbour Master’s instructions on vessel traffic is classed as
Under MARPOL Annex V, regulation 3, discharging cooking oil into the sea:
Proof that the compulsory civil liability insurance for leisure craft is in force:
Periodic surveys of leisure craft are NOT compulsory for:
Water sports with leisure craft are banned closer than:
In buoyed access channels to beaches, quays, pontoons and anchorages the maximum speed is:
A boat may fly the regional flag…
Under SOLAS Chapter V regulation 33 on the duty to help people in danger at sea, note that:
Under Order FOM 1144/2003 on discharges from leisure craft, when is sewage discharge allowed?
Is there any rule linking the sizes of the national and regional flags on a leisure boat?
All boats or floating craft, however propelled, leaving or heading for beaches must…
On unbuoyed beaches:
Under Royal Decree 339/2021 on safety and anti-pollution equipment for leisure craft:
On a stretch of coast without a buoyed bathing zone, if you are within 50 metres of the coast:
On finding a diving area marked with a surface marking device, vessels must keep:
What can we do to protect posidonia?
When is flying the national flag compulsory?
Sailing in port waters, for example Cartagena basin, we try to sail…
Under power, we want to reach a beach with a buoyed bathing zone…
Spanish leisure craft…
Under MARPOL Annex V, how far from the coast may organic waste or rubbish in sealed plastic bags be thrown overboard?
In marine pollution offences from recreational boats:
On a stretch of coast without bathing-area buoyage:
What does sailing in a ZEPIM mean?
In the Mediterranean there is a plant forming large meadows on the seabed, known as:
If you needed to reach land at a buoyed beach:
The modified “Bravo” flag means that:
Today, the regional (autonomous community) flag on recreational boats:
On stretches of coast not buoyed as bathing zones, which take up 200 metres off beaches and 50 metres elsewhere:
What counts as “garbage” under MARPOL 73/78 Annex V?
In marine pollution offences, who must repair the damage?
Under SOLAS Chapter V Regulation 33.1, a master at sea receiving a signal that people are in distress:
On stretches of coast not buoyed as bathing zones:
Measures to protect specially protected areas of importance in the Mediterranean.
SOLAS Convention. “The master of any ship which, being in a position to give help, receives information from any source that persons are in distress at sea is bound to go at full speed to their assistance, informing them or the search and rescue service.”
Inside ports and their approach channels, recreational craft shall avoid interfering with the manoeuvres of larger vessels, heeding their signals and manoeuvring with caution
On a beach that is not buoyed:
Discharge of sewage into the sea from a boat with no equipment to treat, comminute or disinfect it must take place:
The master of a boat must give help and/or assistance to another boat:
Discharge of ground food waste with paper and glass waste, placed in a plastic rubbish bag, outside a special area will take place:
Anchoring a boat in a posidonia meadow:
When approaching an unbuoyed beach, the maximum speed at which you may sail is:
Plastics must be disposed of:
Sewage stored in holding tanks is discharged:
In the Mediterranean, ground food waste may be discharged:
In Andalucía, is the Acantilados de Maro-Cerro Gordo natural area, in the province of Málaga, considered a SPAMI (ZEPIM) zone?
The acronym ZEPIM stands for:
Within the bathing area, on a stretch of coast that is not buoyed:
Within properly buoyed bathing areas:
Outside a special area, a boat has to discharge rubbish mixed with other types of waste and substances. How should it proceed?:
Choose the correct answer about a master’s duty to help another boat:
Sailing off Cape Trafalgar, may we discharge unground food waste into the sea?:
The discharge of sewage:
The flag of the Autonomous Community:
Outside special areas, garbage may be discharged at sea:
Off a buoyed beach, how far from the shore is recreational navigation prohibited?
Sewage that has not been disinfected or ground must be discharged:
Who is responsible for pollution offences from a boat?
In port traffic, which vessels have right of way unless the authority says otherwise?
In a motor boat, you want to approach a beach WITHOUT buoyed access channels. How should you proceed?
Under MARPOL V Regulation 4, outside special areas, what applies if different types of garbage are mixed in one bag for discharge?
Under SOLAS V Regulation 33, if as skipper you decide not to answer a distress call because it would endanger you, what must you do?
Which international signal must a boat supporting divers show to indicate “diver down”?
If the certificate of seaworthiness is requested by the authorities and is not on board, the maximum time to prove it exists and is valid is:
Flags recognised in the Statutes of the Autonomous Communities:
Dirty oil from engine bilges may be discharged at sea…
Throwing plastics into the sea…
If you need to land your boat on a buoyed beach…
Boats must fly the national flag:
What liability does a vessel’s skipper have for a marine pollution incident?
May we fly the flag of the autonomous community on our boat?
On using the autonomous community flag, which answer is correct?
In special areas, food waste may be discharged at sea while the vessel is en route:
If you are less than 50 metres from the coast, on an unbuoyed stretch:
The right to navigate does not include the right to stop or anchor outside port service areas, except for vessels:
To protect Posidonia oceanica meadows:
At what minimum speed must your boat be moving to discharge sewage, if the other conditions are met?
At sea and able to help, what must a skipper do on receiving a signal that people are in danger at sea?
If a pleasure boat without CE marking has a toilet and a fixed holding tank for sewage:
Under paragraph 1 of regulation 33, chapter V of SOLAS, when is a master obliged to give assistance on receiving information that there are people in distress?
Features of compulsory rescue:
Pleasure craft inside harbours and their approach channels:
If under way we sight a boat flying the Alfa flag
A boat with divers down nearby will show this:
May a boat sail in an unbuoyed bathing area?
May the flag of the Autonomous Community be flown on board?
Sewage from toilets is discharged, without restriction,…