SOS on the water

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Macroscien
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28 Jun 2012 7:50pm
Accidents on the water do happen.

It should be ( or already is ) a special hand sign or signal that person needs immediate help.
Something 100% recognizable as SOS on the water not a greeting, or something else.

Some gesture that could be recognized by anybody as need for immediate help.

Watching this video is the obvious reminder.

I did such arrangements within my own windsurfing family but there could be nice to have a universal signs, nobody could misunderstood.




RPM
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28 Jun 2012 5:58pm
universal kiter to windsurfer hand signal


youngbull
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28 Jun 2012 8:38pm
I thought your link was related to hand signals not some windsurfer in waist deep water with people all around him speaking jibberish......
Abit misleading IMO.

This picture is funny but the correct signal for sos/distress/need help.


Edited : you can cross your arm's whilst at the highest position - however if your injured or stuffed from wading in the water you run the risk of drowing from the higher position and using more energy - hence the pic

If I'm wrong some one please correct.
Macroscien
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28 Jun 2012 8:58pm
youngbull said...

I thought your link was related to hand signals not some windsurfer in waist deep water with people all around him speaking jibberish......
Abit misleading IMO.

This picture is funny but the correct signal for sos/distress/need help.





Video is for illustration only ( accident that need attention)

Anyway good to know that you kiters are indestructable and don't need any help..

otherwise you could sit on your board and project a signal as on your picture to your mates -all your six hands ( the broken included) waving high above water.

youngbull
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28 Jun 2012 9:06pm
^^^^ Your funny.....

Kitesurfer - Windsurfer - Whale rider - whatever your water rec sport is....
Commonsense would be wave 1 arm across the full radius. Unless your also a duck diver and you could wave your legs in that motion. Might be a good practice for you to learn

I love this site so many sandy cracks
hamburglar
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29 Jun 2012 8:36am





thats ok for Ganesh but what if your not an Hindu

Macroscien
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29 Jun 2012 11:15am
youngbull said...

^^^^ Your funny.....
Might be a good practice for you to learn

I love this site so many sandy cracks

I am not rising that SOS matter to save my own skin,
but for anybody on the water that may need help but don't know exactly what to do...
Even if that is waste of time for you , emergency practice in all fields saved number of lives...
Did you travel an air plane recently ??

youngbull
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29 Jun 2012 12:07pm
^^^ HUH

What are you smoking.....to many maybe

On your profile you say watersking - yet you would not use this signal!!!
Just plain bizarre.

You need to know the difference from an attack and advice there chief.

The method above is the recognized international signal - but as a water skier you would know this..
Why are you so angry?, the worlds a beautiful place.
Macroscien
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29 Jun 2012 12:24pm
youngbull said...

^^^ HUH

What are you smoking.....to many maybe


Why is so many insults and red sea of hatred here?
Instead of discussing life saving methods , thread is diverted by inferiority complex to personal attacks?
I hope you chock on your own worlds next time dangling hopelessly in the water waiting for good Samaritan to come to your rescue.
Then make ready your middle finger and stash of abuse for him in return...
NoBS
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29 Jun 2012 10:35am
Macroscien said...

youngbull said...

^^^ HUH

What are you smoking.....to many maybe


Why is so many insults and red sea of hatred here?
Instead of discussing life saving methods , thread is diverted by inferiority complex to personal attacks?
I hope you chock on your own worlds next time dangling hopelessly in the water waiting for good Samaritan to come to your rescue.
Then make ready your middle finger and stash of abuse for him in return...



Isn't a 'chock' for car wheels or planes when they are stationary? I think you may mean 'choke'?
felixdcat
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29 Jun 2012 10:47am
hamburglar said...






thats ok for Ganesh Shiva but what if your not an Hindu




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felixdcat
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29 Jun 2012 10:49am
RPM said...

universal kiter to windsurfer hand signal




Do not get angry........... that is all what kiters can do after loosing most fingers in line tangles!

whippingboy
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29 Jun 2012 10:58am
Windsurfers are more old school


pweedas
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29 Jun 2012 11:04am
If anyone is down in the water after a stack then I think most people have a good look as they go past. If they just wave an arm then that's all that's needed to indicate that they need assistance of some sort.
I usually stop and check if I see someone's been down for more than about 30 seconds with not much action towards getting up again, even with no waving at all.
Happy to say, help is mostly not required but sometimes it is.
You never know when someone might be in such a state tht they can't even wave an arm.
Macroscien
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29 Jun 2012 1:23pm
I like it, pweedas. At least constructive discussion started.

In fact ignorance is more dangerous that sharks in dark water and more painful that Irukandji stings.
If any researcher, politician will read SB one day - they will come to one conclusion.
People are unable to educate themselves and take care by their own.
They will introduce compulsory registration, licencing and trainings, safety kits etc.
All I wanted was to remind what distress signal looks like and discuss rescue methods if possible.
For example I do carry 2 meters long string/rope just in case for my own small repairs or towing back to safety somebody gear.
I must say that towing is not exactly easiest thing on modern equipment and without practice although easier then plane gybing could put both victim and rescuer at danger.
cisco
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29 Jun 2012 2:00pm
pweedas said...

You never know when someone might be in such a state that they can't even wave an arm.


Yes. By the look of the wrist of the guy in the vid I suspect he was in a world of pain.

Any waving with his right arm would be "limp wristed" to say the least.

jamdfingr
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29 Jun 2012 2:43pm
I don't use hand signals.

I just yell


"OWW! FARK! MY LEG! ARRGGHH! FARKIN KITESURFER!"

Even the missus can hear me complaining and she aint even at the beach!
hamburglar
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29 Jun 2012 5:05pm
felixdcat said...

hamburglar said...






thats ok for Ganesh Shiva but what if your not an Hindu




edit


no no,Ganesh is the one i mean't, you know the dude with the many busy arms.

busterwa
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30 Jun 2012 5:28pm
Its pretty difficult to spot someone in heavy seas and high wind but i allways keep an eye out. I have gone past someone about 20 metres away and not noticed hin waving before.
Macroscien
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6 Jul 2012 9:43am
The latest events prove that SOS doesn't mean sometimes SOS
Asylum seeker drill holes in order to sink a boat or sabotage by other means, and looking/(demand) for road assistance.
In all boat sailing or just floating around the world there are not so many that when loaded with cargo definitely get into emergency and prone to sunk unless rescued;

Similarly should be distinctive signal if we are in the water dying almost or just have technical difficulty. Urgency in this two matters is completely different..
felixdcat
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6 Jul 2012 12:22pm
hamburglar said...

felixdcat said...

hamburglar said...






thats ok for Ganesh Shiva but what if your not an Hindu




edit


no no,Ganesh is the one i mean't, you know the dude with the many busy arms.



Ganesh is the guy with elephant head! I believe! Shiva has a lotof arms!

felixdcat
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6 Jul 2012 12:24pm
Macroscien said...

The latest events prove that SOS doesn't mean sometimes SOS
Asylum seeker drill holes in order to sink a boat or sabotage by other means, and looking/(demand) for road assistance.
In all boat sailing or just floating around the world there are not so many that when loaded with cargo definitely get into emergency and prone to sunk unless rescued;

Similarly should be distinctive signal if we are in the water dying almost or just have technical difficulty. Urgency in this two matters is completely different..

Well then it is when the kiter hand signal should be used in response!

Woodo
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6 Jul 2012 2:33pm
Sooooo i'm a bit confused.
If I'm ever in trouble in the water I...
Flip the bird while waving my arms and yelling out Fark Kitesurfer whilst hanging onto 2 metres of rope???
doggie
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6 Jul 2012 2:43pm
Woodo said...

Sooooo i'm a bit confused.
If I'm ever in trouble in the water I...
Flip the bird while waving my arms and yelling out Fark Kitesurfer whilst hanging onto 2 metres of rope???


Um yea, if you believe everything on here!!
Woodo
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6 Jul 2012 3:50pm
doggie said...

Woodo said...

Sooooo i'm a bit confused.
If I'm ever in trouble in the water I...
Flip the bird while waving my arms and yelling out Fark Kitesurfer whilst hanging onto 2 metres of rope???


Um yea, if you believe everything on here!!


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