If by dead in the water you mean unable to proceed due to equipment failure or injury. I think you would qualify as a "vessel not under command". If so, as I understand the rules you have right-of-way over everyone else. Besides which, squashing a kayaker would ruin the ship captain's or pilot's day. Not to mention what being turned into fish food would do to yours. Dana >-----Original Message----- >Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:17:13 -0700 >From: Dave Kruger <dkruger_at_pacifier.com> <snip> >I'll repeat some of the stuff in my post you left out: If >I were dead in the >water and/or capsized, in a shipping channel, and a ship >were headed my way, >I'd hit the VHF, **well ahead of time,** tell them where I >was and let them >sort it out. In a shipping lane, I think I'd do the same. >On a normal >crossing of a shipping channel or lane, I would not >routinely announce my >intentions via VHF -- there's no need to do so. <snip> *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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