Our expert video guide to the ColRegs uses model boats to make everything simple and easy to understand
The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972 (COLREGS) are published by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). They set out the rules of the road at sea to prevent collisions between two or more vessels.
With an increasing number of vessels sharing the seas, these Colregs are as important today as they have ever been.
PBO’s Colregs made simple, in association with Navigators and General, is a series of 12 videos. We went to the Warsash Maritime Academy’s Ship Handling Centre with a fleet of model yachts, fishing vessels and motorboats to recreate some collision situations in miniature, using the Academy’s scale fleet of supertankers.
Ex-RYA Chief Examiner James Stevens was on hand to talk us through each situation as it develops, and the videos were filmed and edited by Dylan Winter of KeepTurningLeft.
You can watch the whole series on YouTube:
Thanks to: Warsash Maritime Academy – Ship Handling Centre