Question 322 Rules of the Road

The correct answer is A) overtaking situation. This is an overtaking situation because the illustration D075RR shows the navigation lights of a vessel that is being overtaken from behind. The vessel displaying these lights is the overtaken vessel, and the vessel approaching from behind is the overtaking vessel. The other answer choices are incorrect because a crossing situation involves vessels crossing paths at an angle, a meeting head-on situation involves vessels approaching each other directly, and a special circumstance situation does not apply in this case.