The Collision Regulations - A straightforward Guide: The essential easy to understand guide to the Rules of the Road

by Barry Sadler

This annotated and illustrated first edition book ensures the reader develops a fundamental understanding of the 1972 International Regulations for Prevention of Collisions at Sea. It’s straight forward explanations and no-nonsense guidance will help deck officers of every rank, including Cadets and first CoC Deck Hands to not just understand these regulations, but to properly implement them both in the exam room and on the bridge of a ship. Easy to understand diagrams compliment the guidance and provide mind mapping graphics to aid memory. Written to include all amendments up to January 2016, this book whilst providing simple guidance still maintains the true and legal meaning of the Rules themselves. It can be used as a very effective stand-alone publication, but also provides a valuable companion to Captain Sadler’s various on-line and classroom lectures on the same subject. In this light, it forms part of a series of books designed to fully develop a candidate’s knowledge; focusing on passing any MCA Deck Officer oral exam, regardless of tonnage or level.

148 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 30, 2017

About the author

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American author, musician and former green beret.

To the general public he is most known for the hit single "Ballad of the green berets"

After his musical career he decided to write a series of novels centered around the character "Casca Rufio Longinius" Who is cursed for piercing Jesus on the crucifix with a spear and is forced to forever remain a soldier until the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

In the mid 1980s Sadler moved to Guatemala City where he was shot in the head one night in a taxi. He spent 7 months in a coma and died more than a year later.