ANNEX II Additional Signals for Fishing Vessels 1. General Fishing in Close Proximity The lights mentioned herein shall, if exhibited in pursuance of Rule 26(d), be placed where they can best be seen. They shall be at least 0.9 meter apart but at a lower level than lights prescribed in Rule 26(b)(i) and (c)(i). The lights shall be visible all around the horizon at a distance of at least 1 mile but at a lesser distance than the lights prescribed by these Rules for fishing vessels. 2. Signals for trawlers (a) Vessels when engaged in trawling, whether using demersal or pelagic gear, may exhibit: (i) when shooting their nets: two white lights in a vertical line; (ii) when hauling their nets: one white light over one red light in a vertical line; (iii) when the net has come fast upon an obstruction: two red lights in a vertical line. (b) Each vessel engaged in pair trawling may exhibit: (i) by night, a searchlight directed forward and in the direction of the other vessel of the pair; (ii) when shooting or hauling their nets or when their nets have come fast upon an obstruction, the lights prescribed in 2(a) above. 3. Signals for purse seiners Vessels engaged in fishing with purse seine gear may exhibit two yellow lights in a vertical line. These lights shall flash alternately every second and with equal light and occultation duration. These lights may be exhibited only when the vessel is hampered by its fishing gear. ANNEX II Additional Signals for Fishing Vessels $85.1. General Fishing in Close Proximity The lights mentioned herein shall, if exhibited in pursuance of Rule 26(d), be placed where they can best be seen. They shall be at least 0.9 meter apart but at a lower level than lights prescribed in Rule 26(b)(i) and (c)(i) contained in the Inland Navigational Rules Act of 1980. The lights shall be visible all around the horizon at a distance of at least 1 mile but at a lesser distance than the lights prescribed by these Rules for fishing vessels. § 85.3 Signals for trawlers (a) Vessels when engaged in trawling, whether using demersal or pelagic gear, may exhibit: (1) When shooting their nets: two white lights in a vertical line; (2) When hauling their nets: one white light over one red light in a vertical line; (3) When the net has come fast upon an obstruction: two red lights in a vertical line. (b) Each vessel engaged in pair trawling may exhibit: (1) By night, a searchlight directed forward and in the direction of the other vessel of the pair; (2) When shooting or hauling their nets or when their nets have come fast upon an obstruction, the lights prescribed in paragraph (a) above. § 85.5 Signals for purse seiners Vessels engaged in fishing with purse seine gear may exhibit two yellow lights in a vertical line. These lights shall flash alternately every second and with equal light and occultation duration. These lights may be exhibited only when the vessel is hampered by its fishing gear. ANNEX III Technical Details of Sound Signal Appliances 1. Whistles (a) Frequencies and range of audibility. The fundamental frequency of the signal shall lie within the range 70-700 Hz. The range of audibility of the signal from a whistle shall be determined by those frequencies, which may include the fundamental and/or one or more higher frequencies, which lie within the range 180-700 Hz (±1 percent) and which provide the sound pressure levels specified in paragraph 1(c) below. (b) Limits of fundamental frequencies. To ensure a wide variety of whistle characteristics, the fundamental frequency of a whistle shall be between the following limits: (i) 70-200 Hz, for a vessel 200 meters or more in length; (ii) 130-350 Hz, for a vessel 75 meters but less than 200 meters in length; (iii) 250-700 Hz, for a vessel less than 75 meters in length. ANNEX III Technical Details of Sound Subpart A-Whistles § 86.01 Frequencies and range of audibility. The fundamental frequency of the signal shall lie within the range 70-525 Hz. The range of audibility of the signal from a whistle shall be determined by those frequencies, which may include the fundamental and/or one or more higher frequencies, which lie within the frequency ranges and provide the sound pressure levels specified in § 86.05. § 86.03 Limits of fundamental frequencies. To ensure a wide variety of whistle characteristics, the fundamental frequency of a whistle shall be between the following limits: (a) 70-200 Hz, for a vessel 200 meters or more in length; (b) 130-350 Hz, for a vessel 75 meters but less than 200 meters in length; (c) 250-525 Hz, for a vessel less than 75 meters in length. ANNEX III-Continued (c) Sound signal intensity and range of audibility. A whistle fitted in a vessel shall provide, in the direction of maximum intensity of the whistle and at a distance of 1 meter from it, a sound pressure level in at least one 3-octave band within the range of frequencies 180-700 Hz (± 1 percent) of not less than the appropriate figure given in the table below. The range of audibility in the table above is for information and is approximately the range at which a whistle may be heard on its forward axis with 90 percent probability in conditions of still air on board, a vessel having average background noise level at the listening posts (taken to be 68 dB in the octave band centered on 250 Hz and 63 dB in the octave band centered on 500 Hz). |