At 11:05 AM 12/1/00 +1100, Whyte, David wrote: >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. International orange, I believe it is called. >Red would be the next best colour. I have read several places that red is not a good color for low light situations because it just looks like black. It's fine for getting spotted at sea during the day but if a rescue effort continues until dark it becomes difficult to distinguish from a deep dark sea. I have also read the two contrasting colors is better than one solid color. *************************************************************************** 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 - 17:59:43 PST
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