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Just like traffic lights and signs help drivers on the road, boaters have buoys and signs to guide them to and from shore safely.
In IALA region A where a minor channel branches off to port the mark at the junction would be a red cylinder with a green band. The red cylinder is a port hand mark for the main channel, the green band indicates a starboard mark for the minor channel. [3] In IALA region B the colours (but not shapes) are reversed. [4]
The term "fairway" usually means all the navigable waters between the fairway buoys (that indicate the ends of the channel), even the routes only accessible to the lighter-draft vessels. [1] Some authors restrict the definition to the linear approach part of a marine waterway, the approach channel leading into a port. [5]
Marker buoys, used in naval warfare (particularly anti-submarine warfare) emit light and/or smoke using pyrotechnic devices to create the flare and smoke. Commonly 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter and about 20 inches (500 mm) long, they are activated by contact with seawater and float on the surface.
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