Joshua I work for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority which co-ordinates all the sea rescues in Australian waters. I spoke to our SAR operators a while ago about colours for sea rescues and these were their comments Forget white its the worst colour for spotting at sea. The best colour is Flourescent orange. I believe there is an international standard for this and a lot of life rafts etc are coloured this way. Red would be the next best colour. I had heard about tests done on Blue but none of our SAR operators knew about it. I suspect the blue works best on dull grey days so would not be suited to Australian conditions (lots of blue sky and water). I would guess green would not be a great colour unless its that bright fluescent green (the same as on my bicycle jacket) During the day a signalling mirror is easy to spot. A blank CD works good During the night a small strobe light can show up a very long distance. David Australia *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Nov 30 2000 - 16:09:44 PST
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