---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 307.17"
title: "46"
number: "307.17"
heading: "Distress messages and hostile action reports."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/307.17"
---

# §307.17. Distress messages and hostile action reports.

- (a) AMVER reports shall not replace distress messages and hostile action reports prescribed by Chapter 5, Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) Publication 117.
- (b) Vessel owners or operators subject to this part shall summarize distress messages or hostile action reports in the comments sections of AMVER reports.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Pub. L. 109-304; 46 U.S.C. 50113; Pub. L. 114-74; 49 CFR 1.93.

### Source

Source: 51 FR 18329, May 19, 1986, unless otherwise noted.