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What is the primary consideration in maintaining a safe speed?

  1. Ensuring the vessel can stop for lunch

  2. Ensuring the vessel looks impressive

  3. Ensuring you will have ample time to avoid a collision

  4. Ensuring you win any races

The correct answer is: Ensuring you will have ample time to avoid a collision

A Ensuring the vessel can stop for lunch is incorrect because the primary consideration in maintaining a safe speed is for the safety of the vessel and those on board, not for convenience or leisurely purposes. B: Ensuring the vessel looks impressive is incorrect because the primary consideration in maintaining a safe speed is not for aesthetic reasons, but for the purpose of avoiding accidents and collisions. D: Ensuring you win any races is incorrect because the primary consideration in maintaining a safe speed is not for competitive reasons, but for the safety of everyone involved. Winning races should not take priority over safety.