1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its eighty-second
session (29 November to 8 December 2006), approved the Revised Guidance
to the master for avoiding dangerous situations in adverse weather
and sea conditions, set out in the annex, with a view to providing
masters with a basis for decision making on ship handling in adverse
weather and sea conditions, thus assisting them to avoid dangerous
phenomena that they may encounter in such circumstances.
2 Member Governments are invited to bring the
annexed Revised Guidance to the attention of interested parties as
they deem appropriate.
3 This Revised Guidance supersedes the Guidance
to the master for avoiding dangerous situations in following and quartering
seas (MSC/Circ.707).