At 07:48 am 11/06/99 +1000, you wrote: >> One of my skiing partners used to have a day glow light green (vaguely >> yellow) ski jacket. > >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 Except that my paddling mate wears a fluro lime-green jacket and it just vanishes, invisible - unless one is up sun of him. It definitely depends on which directions the observer and the sun are. Black is the best colour from some angles. I'm told that my pale blue kayak is very visible sometimes. My partner wears a bright red nylon jacket, also very visible in some lights. Reflective paddles are the most visible items. Alex Alex (Sandy) Ferguson Chemistry Department University of Canterbury New Zealand *************************************************************************** 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 - 15:22:21 PDT
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