ghostlymoron
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How do they dispose of them in the rest of Europe? There's no doubt a EU Directive on it.
Disposing of flares to Davy Jones' locker
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How do they dispose of them in the rest of Europe? There's no doubt a EU Directive on it.
prv
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Presumably by burning, same as here, they just have a better system for collecting them and getting them to the disposal site.
Pete
HinewaisMan
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H & S people - do not read this!
Back at home in Melbourne we have a Flare Shoot before the start of the first race of the Winter Series.
For half an hour or so within a defined area near the start, you can come out with your flares and let them off.
I think it’s a great idea – gives people a chance to learn how to use a flare before they need to use one in anger, disposes of heaps of old flares, it’s great PR for the Race and its sponsors and get’s loads of spectator boats out to watch the start.
And, to my knowledge, no one has ever been hurt.
There’s something surreal about seeing 100 para flares drifting down at the same time – if you can see them through the orange smoke.
Back at home in Melbourne we have a Flare Shoot before the start of the first race of the Winter Series.
For half an hour or so within a defined area near the start, you can come out with your flares and let them off.
I think it’s a great idea – gives people a chance to learn how to use a flare before they need to use one in anger, disposes of heaps of old flares, it’s great PR for the Race and its sponsors and get’s loads of spectator boats out to watch the start.
And, to my knowledge, no one has ever been hurt.
There’s something surreal about seeing 100 para flares drifting down at the same time – if you can see them through the orange smoke.
bbg
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+1
i've set off dozens of hand flares, some time expired. Set one off at my ISAF survival course (everyone on the course did), together with a smoke canister. We were going to set off parachute flares as well but it was too windy and the fire brigade vetoed that part of the plan as they didn't want the flares drifting down onto the motorway. [NB - the course was in Austria, not GB]
To dispose of them you could just sail over to France and dump them in a bin. Last time I was there the little blue box wasn't big enough - there were two wheely bins full of TEPs. Maybe someone should tell the French how dangerous TEPs are.
KellysEye
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I take expired flares to large police stations usually County stations but numerous in London. They have lead lined boxes to hold eplosives and it involves form filling listing the flares. They did ask if I found them and I said no they are from our boat, it wasn't a problem.
mcframe
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Interesting.
I've just binned my weedy B&Q "one MILLION candlepower" rechargeable torch (well, demoted from boat to car duties) in favour of an LED Lenser (err, P14, IIRC, not the BigSillyOne).
I wonder how the range of the strobe variants (say, Lenser M7,M14 or Fenix equivalent) compares to dedicated lasers?
viago
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has anyone here tried to light an out of date flare which has been submerged for a couple of weeks? i would be interested as to what happened.