wonkywinch

The red and white flag is used exclusively in the eastern Mediterranean and even as far west as Mallorca.

Search for any diving related floats, flags, patches etc and they all seem to use the red with white line flag. An instructor told me...

Several years ago, heading east past St Adlhelm's Head, we came across a couple of divers on the surface. Their safety boat was nowhere...

Even back when I learned to dive in '72, SMB's were coming in so that the pickup boat could keep track of the divers. Over the years...

Generally DSMBs occur close to support boats flying A flags. Common enough around Swanage, Portland etc. Swimmers towing floats are...

Good point. I sail and I dive but never noticed the lack of mention of a delayed surface marker buoy in sailing training. As our coast...

I've seen divers in shallow water have a float, normally orange, attached to indicate their position.

Whilst I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me that the Americans have a different ‘diver down’ flag, I’ve never seen it before or knew of...

I learned to scuba dive this year and as a yottie already familiar with the alpha flag and the US red with white diagonal. What I'd...

I believe his local boat manager commenced negotiations etc with the salvage co before asking the insurer what they would like to do.

He's made a couple of videos about the issues, they are well worth watching. He was on a "Boatyball" in the BVI, a bookable paid for...

If you want to see how mooring liability pans out, see how the Wandering Hillbilly recently lost $1million.

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation unless you're buying the South African version - Light Amplification by...

This forum seems to be going downhill with the continued bitchiness, old blokes rants and general disgreements. I can count on the...

Constantly posting ai on here is getting boring now, same as when every post you made was about SignalK.