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Diver down flag being flown on a dive ship. The use of the red and white flag, which was created in the early 1950s by Navy veteran Denzel James "Doc" Dockery of Michigan, and popularized by Ted Nixon of US Divers, [4] is required by law or regulation in many US states, Canada, [5] and some other countries (e.g. Italy). [6]
The neighborhood features a public park that hosts regular annual events. [13] Point O' View is situated on the banks of Kemps Lake that formed from the construction of Interstate 264/Virginia Beach Expressway. Kemps Lake provides opportunities for water sports with its deepest point of 19 ft (5.8 m).
The Patapsco River Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System smart buoy. Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System (CBIBS) is a network of observational buoys that are deployed throughout the Chesapeake Bay to observe the estuary's changing conditions and to serve as way points along the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.
False Cape State Park is a 4,321-acre (17.49 km 2) state park located on the Currituck Banks Peninsula, a one-mile-wide (1.6 km) barrier spit between the Back Bay of the Currituck Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, within the city of Virginia Beach, adjacent to the state border with North Carolina, and just north of Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Red flags fly on beaches due to dangerous rip currents and high surf. Here's how to stay out of harms way.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
The buoy, which has attracted crowds in recent days, washed up on Wells Beach after a storm hit the seacoast of Maine in early April 2024. Oh, buoy! Coast Guard to tow popular, washed-up buoy at ...
A delayed surface marker buoy (DSMB), decompression buoy, or deco buoy is an inflatable buoy which can be deployed while the diver is submerged and generally only towards the end of the dive. The buoy marks the diver's position underwater so the dive boat crew can locate the diver even though the diver may have drifted some distance from the ...