> One of my skiing partners used to have a day glow light green (vaguely > yellow) ski jacket. You could identify where he was standing from the > bottom of a ski lift while he was near the top (visually about the same > size as the head of a pin). Everyone else on the mountain would just be > an unidentified speck. That coat just screamed "I'm over here". I > haven't seen anything else that had quite the same visibility. and that is why bright red fire engines are being replaced by yellowy green ones - they may not look as exciting by you can see them better. but what aboaut that yucky orangish air-sea rescue red. surely there were lots of visibility tests done on that before it was chosen for life rafts, bouyancy vests and similar? -- jim *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jun 10 1999 - 14:46:27 PDT
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