COLREGS
English
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Etymology
[edit]Blend of collision + regulations.
Proper noun
[edit]COLREGS
- (international law) International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, the rules published by the International Maritime Organization to prevent collisions involving boats.
- 1998, Charles Wing, Boating Magazine's One Minute Guide to the Nautical Rules of the Road:
- The International Regulations for the Prevention of Collision RULE at Sea (COLREGS) apply to all vessels, from kayaks to ocean-liners, on all of the oceans and bodies of water outside the magenta (red) Demarcation Line printed on charts.
- 2005, Craig H. Allen, Farwell's Rules of the Nautical Road, page 14:
- There are no material differences between the COLREGS and Inland Rule.
- 2014, Jing Leng, Jian Liu, Hongli Xu, “Online Collision Avoidance Based on Modified Velocity Obstacle Approach for Unmanned Surface Vehicles”, in International Conference on Electrical, Control and Automation, page 112:
- The proposed algorithm is based on modified velocity obstacle which applies encounter situation judgment and decision-making of autonomy hazard avoidance of ship, which also take COLREGS into account.