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The use of VHF radio to Reduce Uncertainty in Marine Encounters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
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The Department of Trade has recently issued a Merchant Shipping Notice (No. 845) entitled ‘Dangers in the Use of VHF Radios in Collision Avoidance’. Though they recognize that ‘the practice of using VHF radio as a collision avoidance aid may be resorted to on occasion, especially in pilotage waters’, the tenor of the Notice seems clearly designed to inhibit the use of this valuable aid to navigation. Their attention seems mainly absorbed by the undoubted dangers attending its haphazard use, which appears to be the salient feature of most of the ‘official’ attention directed towards the use of this device.
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