Question 832Navigation General
70% to passYour vessel is participating in the Voluntary Observing Ship Program, you are preparing WS Form B-80 as seen in illustration D041NG below. You are hove to in a hurricane on a heading of 328°T. The wind is from 030° true at 119 knots. How should this be encoded on the weather report form?
A
83099
B
83011
C
80399
D
80312
AI Explanation
The correct answer is C) 80399. The reason this is the correct answer is that when encoding the wind direction and speed on the WS Form B-80 in a hurricane situation, the wind direction should be encoded as the true direction the wind is coming from (030°T in this case), and the wind speed should be encoded as the speed in knots (119 knots in this case). The encoding for this would be 80399, where 80 indicates the wind direction and 399 indicates the wind speed. The other answer choices are incorrect because they do not accurately represent the wind direction and speed information provided in the question.
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