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Doug Chapman writes: >searching for them. Some were wearing single-cell flashlight type >marker lights; some were wearing cylume stick lights; and others were >wearing strobe light markers.... .... >ONLY EFFECTIVE distress marker (you guessed it) was a strobe light. The >flashlight and cylume markers were no good. We would retrieve the On a trip to the Coral Sea a few years ago a number of the divers on our trip were using strobes for night diving and I remember being quite impressed by how effective they were. Unfortunately I didn't find out who manufactured them. I would appreciate any info you could send me on who manufactures the strobes you refered to? Thanks!! >I remember a situation in Hawaii when the Coast Guard I believe was >conducting research using piegons to locate people adrift in life >jackets. Apparently the eye of the piegon is very sensitive to yellow >and orange?? The piegon was strapped under the body of the helicopter >in a housing and had keys to peck at (one left, one center, one right) >that were connected to lights in the cockpit. I think I remember this >story correctly but it's been a while. If the piegon spotted the >lifejacket color to the left, it would peck at the left key and the >pilot would change course accordingly. 'Similarly for the other >headings. During the tests the helicopter developed problems and had to >land in the water (apparently it was a floater). No one had thought >about this scenario and the $10,000 piegon drowned. So much for rescue >at sea research. This is the etc. part. Well anyone can see the problem with this approach as Noah (though I think he used a dove) will testify it would have been far better to have given the pigeons to the divers (or lost mariners). Simon Rules of Brachian Ultra Cricket: "...When a player scores a hit on another player he must immediately run away and apologise from a safe distance. Apologies should be sincere, concise and, for maximum clarity and impact, delivered through a megaphone..." - from "Life the Universe and Everything" (I think) by Douglas Adams ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Simon L Hartley o o Oo o Associate Lecturer oo o o Faculty of Resource Science and Management o oo _____ o oo Southern Cross University o (_/-\_) oo P.O. Box 157 ===(S) o Lismore NSW, Australia 2480 Ph: (066) 203 251 or (61 66) 203 251 Fax:(066) 212 669 E-mail: shartley@sc*.ed*.au* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.scu.edu.au/ressci/staff/shartley.html
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