International Rules for Preventing Collisions at Sea (IRPCS)

  • Safe Speed Rule

    If you think about it conceptually, two vessels in a meeting situation must be able to successfully stop within a hair’s breadth of each other in order to avoid a collision at sea. That, in a nutshell, is the raison d’etre of Rule 6 of the International Rules for Preventing Collisions at Sea (IRPCS), called…