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BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND Your vessel is underway in fog and you hear one prolonged and three short blasts. Which vessel would this signal indicate?

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pa paulsi · Jul 14, 2019

I crew on a ferry and it front loads. So know the capt uses the horn, one long bast (i get it, one lone vs one prolong. But every capt is different one how long his blast is.) than 3 short one. So leaving the dock and backing up is what he is doing.