I'd like to offer a public thank you!

[TheBoatman]

I\'d like to offer a public thank you!

To the effing stupid, numbnuts, vanker(s) that decided to fire off 6 red parachute distress flares in the vicinity of Chatham dockyard on the River Medway tonight - well done lads that should have got the CG's attention!!!!!!

What part of "it's illegal" don't you understand?


6 reds over a 20 minute period should at least draw someones attention.

Peter.

 

[cliff]

Re: I\'d like to offer a public thank you!

Are you sure there was no one in distress near Chatham dockyard? I mean in the river Medway. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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[sarabande]

Re:Flare disposal - legal requirements

We saw a flare in the middle of Exmoor last night, too ! The chances of a maritime incident there are fairly rare, but I do sympathise with the sea based emergency services being duped by false firings.

Do you know what bits of legislation are in fact applicable please ?

 

[Matrosen]

Re: I\'d like to offer a public thank you!

In Aguadulce, on the Costa del Sol, one fieste night some of the yotties decided to join in and fire a parachute flare from the end of the sea wall of the marina. Probably pissed 'coz the wind was blowing down the length of the wall, so that was the way the flare went getting lower and lower over the line of boats. Finally, it got tangled in the rigging of one whilst still burning and showering sparks onto the boat below. It did quite a bit of cosmetic damage, I believe, but it's poetic justice that the boat belonged to the flare firer!

 

[snowleopard]

Re: I\'d like to offer a public thank you!

Moral: don't get into distress on Nov 5th or the weekends immediately before and after. Better still, don't go to sea.

One year I entered Chichester after dark on Nov 25th and It was very difficult to find the bar beacon against the backdrop of fireworks. I'm certain I could have fired all my flares and been totally ignored.

 

[wooslehunter]

Re: I\'d like to offer a public thank you!

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Finally, it got tangled in the rigging of one whilst still burning and showering sparks onto the boat below. It did quite a bit of cosmetic damage, I believe, but it's poetic justice that the boat belonged to the flare firer!

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It's amazing we don't get more fires started by the vankers who let of parachute flares over land. They're often still burning when they hit the water where they are doused. Fireworks are designed to burn out way before any remnants hit ground.

 

[DeeGee]

Re: I\'d like to offer a public thank you!

Isn't it strange, these things do not happen near Nov 5th in France /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

But on Bastille Day, god help anyone truly in distress - they let off ALL their out of date flares !

 

[Talbot]

Re: I\'d like to offer a public thank you!

[quote They're often still burning when they hit the water where they are doused.

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WRONG this is why they are so dangerous, the flares will continue to burn even underwater. they appear to go out cause they go underwater or cause they burn out, but the water does not put them out

 

[Guest]

Doused ???? Sorry but they do not douse in water ...

far from it ... they continue fiercely burning as they have their own oxygenate in the "fuel" .....

I know this for fact - as having seen not only white Very Flares and Parachute Red Distress stuff IN water do exactly that ... cont. to burn. A HH red flare will also.

 

[TheBoatman]

Re: I\'d like to offer a public thank you!

Cliff
I'm certain that there was no one in distress as there were a number of boats on the river in that area just mooching about watching the festivities.

I'm in NO doubt that the flares were fired just to get rid of them.

Peter.

 

[Nauti Fox]

Re: I\'d like to offer a public thank you!

We were out on the river Saturday night and saw one over Medway Bridge Marina as well.

 

[spannerman]

Re: I\'d like to offer a public thank you!

Similar here in Scandinavia, but its new years eve thats the big night for fireworks, then its the only time you can legally let off all of your out of date flares as part of the celebration, you can see parachute flares in the the sky continously from midnight til a couple of hours after, as others have said pity anyone really in distress as you would never know, the fireworks here in Stavanger on new years eve far exceed anything I ever saw in the UK, its the most intense 360 degree horizon to horizon display I have ever seen.