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| - | ==== Night Lights and Towed Vessels ==== | + | << stories:safety_vietnam|Previous Story^stories:bellingham_stories|Story List ^ stories:dj_canadians_2008|Next Story>> |
| - | (These messages were in response to another about required lighting on the water at night, but the link to the content mentioned is no longer valid) | + | ===== Night Lights and Towed Vessels ===== |
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| Adam, you've missed one very important lighting pattern, and that is the three -white-light pattern on the mast that tugs display when towing. We've had serious loss off life between Vancouver, B.C. and Seattle because ignorance of this lighting pattern. Not fun to find heads severed from bodies by the towing cable as kayakers passed behind a tug not knowing or being able to see or understanding the usual and customary semaphorage in a working harbor. The tug was only doing 2-3 knots. But a towing cable can oscillate even in mild swell when pulling a loaded barge. Unfortunately, it snapped taut just as the kayakers passed over it. | Adam, you've missed one very important lighting pattern, and that is the three -white-light pattern on the mast that tugs display when towing. We've had serious loss off life between Vancouver, B.C. and Seattle because ignorance of this lighting pattern. Not fun to find heads severed from bodies by the towing cable as kayakers passed behind a tug not knowing or being able to see or understanding the usual and customary semaphorage in a working harbor. The tug was only doing 2-3 knots. But a towing cable can oscillate even in mild swell when pulling a loaded barge. Unfortunately, it snapped taut just as the kayakers passed over it. | ||
| - | This has also happened to a family of five (all killed) in a powerboat, and I've personally seen a seal between tub and barge (on the Inside Passage) flipped and severed in two by a towing cable. I would personally like to see you stress the importance to your readers of understanding the US lateral bouyage system and lighting schemes. The Canadian system has it vagaries/differences… it'd be good to know them too, particularly for people traveling north of Jonesport on the East Coast. | + | This has also happened to a family of five (all killed) in a powerboat, and I've personally seen a seal between tug and barge (on the Inside Passage) flipped and severed in two by a towing cable. I would personally like to see you stress the importance to your readers of understanding the US lateral bouyage system and lighting schemes. The Canadian system has it vagaries/differences… it'd be good to know them too, particularly for people traveling north of Jonesport on the East Coast. |
| Sincerely,\\ | Sincerely,\\ | ||
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