Law of the Sea
Maritime zones are drawn from these.
What are baselines?
This is the order of precedence among vessels.
What is NRCFSPSW?
This is the color of the detachable link on the fourth shot.
What is red?
These are the two ships in the San Diego Bay that nearly hit each other last year.
What are the USS HARPERS FERRY and USS MOMSEN?
This is what you say when acknowledging a report on watch.
What is "Very Well?"
These are three examples of exceptions to a baseline drawn from the low water line.
What are deeply indented coatlines, fringing coastlines, bays, and archipelagos?
These vectors make up the speed triangle.
What are er, em, and rm?
This is how a rudder works.
What is like a wing, creating an area of low pressure where water has to flow faster to cover a longer distance, pulling the rudder to that side?
This is what happened with the USS JOHN S MCCAIN.
What is on August 21, 2017, the USS JOHN S MCCAIN collided with the Alnic MC in the Strait of Malacca, resulting in the deaths of 10 sailors and extensive damage to both ships, after they incorrectly split propulsion and steering control?
This is how you might tell the helmsman to go to course 290 (from 200) and speed up to 15 knots.
What is "right standard rudder, steady on course 2-9-0, all engines ahead standard for 25 knots?"
This is what a rock CAN claim (vice an island).
What are territorial waters?
These are three flags you will might during an UNREP.
What are Romeo, Bravo, and prep?
This is what happened on the USS FITZGERALD.
What is on June 17, 2017, the USS Fitzgerald collided with the ACX Crystal in the Philippine Sea, killing seven sailors and injuring three others, after the bridge team misinterpreted two ships as one?
This is how I spell my name with the phonetic alphabet (LT GARRETT).
What is lima tango gulf alpha romeo romeo echo tango tango?
These are three things a warship are immune from.
What are interference from other nations, search and inspection w/o permission from CO, arrest and seizure, and foreign taxes and regulations?
This is how you calculate CPA bearing and range.
What is plotting m1 and m2, then drawing LRM, and taking 90 degrees +/- DRM from the center to LRM.
This is the split ship concept.
What is using the tug to control the bow, the ahead engine and rudder to control the stern, and the backing engine to control forward/aft motion?
These are the watchstanding principles and how the bridge team could have used them better on the USS FITZGERALD and USS JOHN S MCCAIN.
What are FOFPIQL?
This is how I might conduct a radio check with Captain de Marcellus.
What is: CAPT demar, this is me, k; this is CAPT demar, r k; CAPT demar, this is me, r ar?
This is an agreement between the United States and Russian Federation in 1990 to address these four specific activities: 1. Unintentional or distress entry into the national territory of the other party 2. Use of lasers in a manner hazardous to the other party 3. Hampering operations in a manner hazardous to the other party in a “special caution area” 4. Interference with command and control networks in a manner hazardous to the other party.
What is the the Dangerous Military Activities (DMA) Agreement or the U.S.-USSR. Agreement on the Prevention of Dangerous Military Activities?
You are overtaking another power-driven vessel in a channel. Are you the give way vessel, or the stand-on vessel?
What is... my vessel?
In less than 20 fathoms, this is how much anchor chain you might pay out.
What is 5-7 times the depth of water?
This is what happened with the USS VINCENNES.
This is what third sub means.
What is that the CO is off the ship?