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The document describes various types of marine aids to navigation and lighthouse authorities: 1. Lateral marks indicate the port and starboard sides of safe water channels and use red and green colors with a flashing rhythm every 3 seconds. 2. Preferred channel marks usually indicate deep water channels suitable for commercial traffic, with secondary channels for shallower draught vessels, using a composite group flashing rhythm of 2+1 flashes every 9 seconds. 3. Cardinal marks are used to indicate the position of hazards and the direction of safe water, named after the quadrant they are placed in, with their name indicating which side the mark should be passed.

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IALA

The document describes various types of marine aids to navigation and lighthouse authorities: 1. Lateral marks indicate the port and starboard sides of safe water channels and use red and green colors with a flashing rhythm every 3 seconds. 2. Preferred channel marks usually indicate deep water channels suitable for commercial traffic, with secondary channels for shallower draught vessels, using a composite group flashing rhythm of 2+1 flashes every 9 seconds. 3. Cardinal marks are used to indicate the position of hazards and the direction of safe water, named after the quadrant they are placed in, with their name indicating which side the mark should be passed.

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IALA International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities

1.LATERAL MARKS - indicate the port and starboard hand side of a safe water channel.

Rhythm : ANY ( QF, F , LF , GF) - FL every 3s


Colour : Red & Green

2.Preferred channel mark usually indicate a deep water channel, suitable for commercial
traffic, with a secondary channel suitable for shallower draught vesels.

Rhythm composite group flashin (2+1) every 9s

3.Cardinal Mark used to indicate a position of hazard and the direction of safe water. A
cardinal mark is named after the quadrant in which it is placed. The name of a cardinal mark
indicates that it should be passed to the named side of the mark.
4.ISOLATED DANGER MARKS is erected on, or moored on or above an isolated danger
that has navigable water all around it.

colour white ; Rhythm Fl(2) every 5s.

5.SAFE WATER MARKS indicate navigable water all round the mark.

colour white ; Rhythm long flashing every 6s

6.SPECIAL MARK Indicate a special area or feature, for example : military exercise zone
marks, cable or pipeline marks, spoil ground marks.

colour yellow ; Rhythm any

7.NEW DANGER marking new wrecks newly discovered hazards not yet indicated in
nauticaldocuments.

colour Blue/Yellow ; Rhythm 1s B + 1s Y , 0,5s interval between them.

IALA – International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities 1.LATERAL MARKS - indicate the port
4.ISOLATED DANGER MARKS – is erected on, or moored on or above an isolated danger that has navigable water all around it. co

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