Section 354
Duty to report dangers to navigation.
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958
About this Act
An Act to foster the development and ensure the efficient maintenance of an Indian mercantile marine in a manner best suited to serve the national interests and for that purpose to establish a National Shipping Board to provide for the registration, certification, safety and security of Indian ships and generally to amend and consolidate the law relating to merchant shipping.
The master of any Indian ship on meeting with
dangerous ice, a dangerous derelict, a tropical storm or any other direct danger to navigation 1[or on encountering sub-freezing air temperatures associated with gale-force winds, causing severe ice
accretions on super structures or strong gales for which no storm warning has been received by him]
shall send information accordingly by all means of communication at his disposal and in accordance
with such rules as the Central Government may make in this behalf to ships in the vicinity and to such
authorities on shore as may be prescribed by those rules.
Explanation.--For the purpose of this section the expression "tropical storm" means a hurricane typhoon, cyclone or other storm of a similar nature, and the master of a ship shall be deemed to have met with a tropical storm if he has reason to believe that there is such a storm in the vicinity.
Explanation.--For the purpose of this section the expression "tropical storm" means a hurricane typhoon, cyclone or other storm of a similar nature, and the master of a ship shall be deemed to have met with a tropical storm if he has reason to believe that there is such a storm in the vicinity.
Notes
1. Ins. by Act 21 of 1966, s. 31 (w.e.f. 28-5-1966).