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Channel 13

Technical visualChannel 13 navigational safety
Channel 13 navigational safetyTwo vessels exchange a short bridge-to-bridge navigational safety communication on Channel 13 near a meeting point.VESSEL AVESSEL BCH 13 · NAVIGATIONAL SAFETY
Channel 13 navigational safetyTwo vessels exchange a short bridge-to-bridge navigational safety communication on Channel 13 near a meeting point.VESSEL AVESSEL BCH 13 · NAVIGATIONAL SAFETY
Channel 13 supports bridge-to-bridge navigational safety communications, not general social traffic.

Channel 13 is associated with bridge-to-bridge navigational safety communications.

It can be important when vessels need to communicate concerning immediate navigation or collision avoidance.

It is not a general social channel.

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