Re: [Paddlewise] Bright orange banner in the water

At 10:01 AM 8/1/02 -0400, Kirk Olsen wrote:
>At 11:50 PM 7/31/2002 -0700, Elias Ross wrote:
>>http://www.equipped.com/signal.htm
>>
>>The author suggests several methods, including banners and strobes.  I liked
>>the idea of a bright orange banner that floats in the water -- has anyone
>>considered such a thing?  Flares don't seem to come highly recommended.
>
>I've got a small rolled up bright orange banner that I found an in LL Bean 
>outlet store.

At the AKT skills symposium a couple of years ago I attended the 
"Signaling" session.  One of the pieces of equipment demonstrated was a 
bright orange survival bivy bag.  They can be used in a variety of ways, 
will fit in the pocket of a PFD, and even have survival "instructions" 
written right on the bag, provide some reading material for boredom relief 
as you're waiting to be rescued.   An example of one can be seen at:

http://www.wildlife-film.com/shop/wws/safety.htm (labeled D6 on the image)

A similar useful piece of equipment is an emergency tube tent.  As seen here:

http://www.safetycentral.com/plastubten.html

It would also be very visible and would provide shelter from the wind and 
rain if one were to make to shore but were still miles away from civilization.
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