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  South Carolina Boating License and Boat Safety Course - Buoys and Markers for Boating Safety
Buoys and markers are the "traffic signals" that guide vessel operators safely along some waterways.
Buoys and markers that bear these yellow symbols are serving a dual purpose—they are navigational aids for both the U.S. Aids to Navigation System and the Intracoastal Waterway.
These rules are true regardless of the shape or color of the channel marker or buoy on which the ICW symbols are displayed.
www.boat-ed.com /sc/course/p3-7_navaidsbuoys.htm   (1044 words)

  
 freecourse.ca - St. John Ambulance Canada - Module 3
Starboard junction (bifurcation) buoys are red in colour with a green horizontal band across the midsection and are used to mark a junction where one channel splits into two.
This buoy indicates that there is safe water to pass on either side but it should be kept to the port (left) side of your vessel when proceeding upstream or downstream.
Cardinal buoys are a special system of buoys that indicate a hazard by reference to the four cardinal directions (points) of the compass: north, east, west, and south.
www.safetyafloat.ca /sjac/olcmod3.html   (3143 words)

  
 Part 5 - References and Glossary of Terms
1st Class Solar 5 mile range lighted North Cardinal Buoy
2nd Class Solar 4 mile range lighted Port Hand Lateral Buoy
2nd Class Solar 5 mile range lighted West Cardinal Buoy
www.trinityhouse.co.uk /review/Part5.htm   (353 words)

  
 Navigation Portal @ Headed.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Later developments included the placing of lighthouses and buoys close to shore to act as marine signposts identifying ambiguous features, highlighting hazards and pointing to safe channels for ships approaching some part of a coast after a long sea voyage.
Some time later, around 300, the magnetic compass was invented in China.
Later, mechanical chronometers enabled navigation at sea and in the air using relatively unskilled procedures.
www.headed.org   (3261 words)

  
 LEGENDARY SURFER: John Heath "Doc" Ball   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In his limited-edition photo collection, later to be (thankfully) reprinted for later generations of us, Doc documented "'How All This Started.'" Below the title, the photo shows Doc Ball, "snapping one in the good old days when the camera was carried out by holding it between his teeth.
Later on in 1937, Doc documented more big surf, this time at Hermosa: "Twenty Footers Roll In" shows Doc, himself ("having deserted his Graflex"), on a big, sloping overheader on Turkey Day, 1937.
The original trophy was not much to speak of, so, later on, Tom Blake had a nicely embossed trophy cup made in order to pass on to succeeding winners.
www.legendarysurfers.com /surf/legends/ls07.shtml   (10168 words)

  
 The TAO project: Bibliography
Kuroda, Y., K. Sono, K. Ando, H.P. Freitag, and M.J. McPhaden, 2001: In-situ buoy data intercomparison between TRITON and TAO in the western tropical Pacific Ocean.
Serra, Y.L. and M.J. McPhaden, 2000: Assessment of the diurnal cycle in rainfall and surface salinity for the tropical Atlantic and Pacific using data from moored buoy arrays.
Reynolds, R.W. and D.C. Stokes, 1998: Impact of the number of drifting buoys on Sea Surface Temperature (SST) satellite retrievals and analyses.
www.pmel.noaa.gov /tao/proj_over/pubs/taopubso.shtml   (11959 words)

  
 rootburn: 07/01/2004 - 07/31/2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
...intricate brainteasers, the requirement for lots of lateral thinking, and great storylines are major pulling points for millions of fans, not just women.
They eventually released the "implantable" sensor/transceiver as a wristwatch in 2001, and it was used to track at-risk patients and parolees among others.
A year later, it appeared that Digital Angel had repurposed the animal identification chips into a product called Verichip, and they were going to start implanting them in people for identification and access control purposes.
www.rootburn.com /archives/2004_07_01_archive.html   (8196 words)

  
 CGD Annual Scientific Report 2004
*Stockwell, R. Large, and *R. Milliff, 2004: Resonant inertial oscillations in moored buoy ocean surface winds.
Jakobsen, 2004: Snow conditions may create an invisible barrier for lynx.
Rivers, 2004: Estimating uncertainty in a regional climate model related to initial and lateral boundary conditions.
www.asr.ucar.edu /2004/CGD/pubs.html   (3568 words)

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