Court Opinion

ID: 9453067
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:01:18.295673+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:29.542661
License: Public Domain

ORDER ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
PER CURIAM:
In application for rehearing appellant makes the point that there is a possible inconsistency in the findings of the district court that the two vessels were in a meeting situation or collision course, but that each was showing the other a red light, since Rule 18 (33 U.S.C.A. 1080) of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea is limited in its application by night to cases in which each vessel is in such a position as to see both the sidelights of the other.1
The trial court rejected appellant’s contention that the original approach was starboard-to-starboard. The difficulties of making a wholly consistent reconstruction of the accident did not require that the trial court accept appellant’s version of the facts.
Other points made by appellant in its application for rehearing already have been covered in the corrected opinion.
The application is denied.

. See note 3 to our opinion pointing out the difficulties of determining whether the meeting rule or the crossing rule applies.