By the COLREG, the stand-on vessel should keep course and speed when the give-way vessel takes the avoidance action. This is true when only two vessels are involved in the risk of collision. If the stand-on vessel has the obligation to give way to third vessel, there is no quick solution. OOW must decide what is his priority first then he can take proper action to cope with. In the true plotting dispatched from the shore surveillance radar at Dover strait below, each dotted mark on the track is 6 minutes run. The whole track takes about 20 minutes run of the vessels at scene. In the end of the day, two vessels had a collision three miles north-west of F3 buoy. Others survived by different mental setting and techniques used.
