The bridge teams of two vessels, one down-bound and one up-bound in a narrow channel, had agreed to meet just upstream from a curve. Sometime later, while rounding the curve, the up-bound vessel proceeded close to the north bank and then deviated towards the center of the canal, as in diagram A.
To correct the deviation, the bridge team altered course to starboard. Meanwhile, the down-bound vessel was approaching the curve at a speed of 4.9 knots with the current astern at about 1 knot. The...
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