In restricted visibility, what adjustment should be avoided when turning toward a vessel forward of your beam that you cannot visually identify?

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In restricted visibility, what adjustment should be avoided when turning toward a vessel forward of your beam that you cannot visually identify?

In restricted visibility, you must avoid any maneuver that turns your bow toward a vessel you cannot identify that is ahead of your beam. Since you don’t know the other vessel’s actions, turning toward it risks placing you in its path. That’s why altering course to port, unless you’re overtaking, is the action to avoid. The safer approach is to maintain your current course (and slow if needed) while you use radar and other means to identify the vessel and assess risk. Other adjustments don’t address the fundamental risk of steering toward an unidentified forward vessel as directly as not turning toward it.

In restricted visibility, you must avoid any maneuver that turns your bow toward a vessel you cannot identify that is ahead of your beam. Since you don’t know the other vessel’s actions, turning toward it risks placing you in its path. That’s why altering course to port, unless you’re overtaking, is the action to avoid. The safer approach is to maintain your current course (and slow if needed) while you use radar and other means to identify the vessel and assess risk. Other adjustments don’t address the fundamental risk of steering toward an unidentified forward vessel as directly as not turning toward it.

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