Buoys Part II: The Cardinal Rule
What do cardinal buoys mean? Learn how the black-and-yellow north, east, south and west cardinal marks show the safe side to pass a danger — with a diagram.
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Lateral Marks For Pilotage
The Strait of Dover, the narrowest point in the English Channel, was shrouded in thick fog on January 11, 1971 when the tanker Texaco Caribbean was struck by the freighter Paracas. The collision caused the tanker to explode, split in two and sink in shallow water with the loss of eight lives and the discharge…
