A Great website : http://www.equipped.com/home.htm .Forget the "Equipped to Survive" name of it though. Very good discussion of flare guns, signal mirrors, EPIRBS and PLB's. What is nicest though is that there is a review of products, as well as email and/or websites for the products mentioned. The orientation of the page is mostly survival after a "marine" accident, or a plane "force down. The pro's & con's of each method of signaling is well balanced, and surprisingly) and refreshingly the authors come down strongly for low tech traditional methods, rather than recommending every one buy an Iridium system :) Well worth looking into! rich dempsey ridem_at_msn.com -----Original Message----- From: Bill Leonhardt <WJLeonhardt_at_bnl.gov> To: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net <paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net> Date: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 5:11 PM Subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Distress Signals >At 10:33 AM 9/7/99 -0800, David Seng <David_at_wainet.com> wrote: >SNIP >> I've heard that there are 25mm pistol-style launchers that can throw a >>larger flare much higher than the 12 gauge, but haven't been able to locate >>one locally.....I'd be interested if anyone has any experience with these. >> >Dave, > >The West Marine paper catalog has them. Also a comparison of flare >performance. Don't know if the info is on the web. > >Bill Leonhardt >*************************************************************************** >PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List >Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net >Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net >Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ >*************************************************************************** > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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