Saul Kinderis wrote: > > As far as signaling deivices, all of my lifejackets have a "C" cell type of > strobe attached along with flares in a ziplock. I replace the flares at > least once a year. I have to admit that it concerns me a bit that in Dave's > mention of the river pilot, the Coast Guard didn't see the strobe, as my > whole motivation for putting strobes on all of my lifejackets, including > loaners, was due to a friend of mine not having anything on his person to > signal with (it was all in the kayak I had lent him) during a rescue. [snip] When I told my SO what I had written about the Bar pilot whose strobe was not visible to the CG helo, she reminded me that the strobe was operating intermittently, and so that may have been a contributing factor why it did not attract the attention of the helo. I believe the strobe leaked water, and so it shorted when the water provided a lower resistance path than the bulb. Don't know the brand of strobe he used. The next piece of Saul's post (which I snipped) might be fodder for a discussion/listing of strobes which do not leak. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Dec 20 1998 - 13:26:39 PST
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