BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND What describes a head-on situation?

Correct Answer: Option B — Seeing both sidelights of a vessel directly ahead

COLREG Rule 14 defines a head-on situation as two power-driven vessels meeting on reciprocal or nearly reciprocal courses when by night each sees both sidelights of the other ahead, establishing the visual criteria for executing a starboard-to-starboard or port-to-port passing maneuver.