Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 29 views

    04b On The Water

    Uploaded by

    Ngaire Taylor
    The document discusses light sequences and markers used to indicate navigation channels and hazards. It explains that red and green buoys mark port and starboard sides of channels, while white lights on cardinal marks flash patterns to indicate direction. Special marks also use yellow lights to designate unique areas like traffic lanes or pipelines.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    04b On The Water

    Uploaded by

    Ngaire Taylor
    29 views1 page
    The document discusses light sequences and markers used to indicate navigation channels and hazards. It explains that red and green buoys mark port and starboard sides of channels, while white lights on cardinal marks flash patterns to indicate direction. Special marks also use yellow lights to designate unique areas like traffic lanes or pipelines.

    Original Title

    04b on the Water

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document discusses light sequences and markers used to indicate navigation channels and hazards. It explains that red and green buoys mark port and starboard sides of channels, while white lights on cardinal marks flash patterns to indicate direction. Special marks also use yellow lights to designate unique areas like traffic lanes or pipelines.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    29 views1 page

    04b On The Water

    Uploaded by

    Ngaire Taylor
    The document discusses light sequences and markers used to indicate navigation channels and hazards. It explains that red and green buoys mark port and starboard sides of channels, while white lights on cardinal marks flash patterns to indicate direction. Special marks also use yellow lights to designate unique areas like traffic lanes or pipelines.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 1

    Light sequence By night a port buoy shows a red light and a starboard buoy shows a green light.

    Any rhythm may be used.

    Light sequence Cardinal marks, when lighted, North 12 all display a white light. To aid (continuous) memory, associate the number of flashes with a clock face: West 9 3 East three flashes indicate east, six flashes indicate south, nine (followed by one long flash) flashes indicate west, and 12 6 flashes indicate north. North South flashes continually. To ensure that no confusion occurs between east, south and west cardinal marks, a long flash immediately follows the six flashes of the south mark.

    Cardinal marks
    They indicate where the safest water may be found and is used in conjunction with the compass. It may indicate the deepest water in the area, the safe side on which to pass a danger or may draw attention to a feature in a channel such as a bend, junction or an end of a shoal. You should pass on the eastern side of an East cardinal mark, on the southern side of a South cardinal, on the western side of a West cardinal and on the northern side of a North cardinal.

    Light F Flashe s

    Special marks

    ww

    By day, the colour scheme can be remembered by noting that the black segment is positioned where the cones point: Norththe top marks point up Eastthe top marks point outward Southtop marks point down Westtop marks point inwards.

    w. m

    sq .q ld .g ov .
    Light sequence

    This indicates a special area or feature such as traffic separation, spoil ground, cable or pipelines including outfall pipes and groynes. They can also define a channel within a channel, for example, a channel for deep draught boats in a wide estuary where the limits of the channel for normal navigation are marked by red and green lateral buoys. They will also be found at the intersection of two channels where the use of a lateral or cardinal mark may not be appropriate. As a general rule, consult a chart to see which side to pass. Special marks can be used as lateral or safe water marks by using can, cone or sphere-shaped buoys.

    At night the light is yellow and the rhythm may be any other than those used for the white light of a cardinal, isolated danger and safe water marks.

    au
    BoatSafe Workbook

    The BoatSafe Workbook presented on this site is copyright (c) of the State of Queensland. All enquiries should be made to Maritime Safety Queensland.

    On the water
    41

    You might also like