Special characters (accent)

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Different forms of the
special character

The special characters ( English special mark ) is a navaid that the buoying of waterways used. It is used to identify special areas and points, such as warning areas or points, fishing grounds , excavator dumping sites , cables, pipelines, oceanographic measuring stations, etc. The respective meaning of the individual special characters can be given as a label or must be taken from the nautical chart or other nautical publications.

Exterior

A special character can be of any form. It is preferably designed as a barrel or spar barrel or as a rod. It is yellow and can have a lying yellow cross as a top sign . The sign can be fired . The identifier - as well as the shape of the symbol - must be clearly different from neighboring nautical symbols of another type. In the area of ​​application of the Sea Shipping Road Regulations (SeeSchStrO), special characters have the identifiers Fl / Blz., Oc (2) / Ubr. (2) or Oc (3) / Ubr. (3), oceanographic measuring stations always Fl (5) / Blz. (5).

Web link

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfram Claviez: Maritime Dictionary . 3. Edition. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-7688-0853-X , p. 352 .
  2. ↑ Axel Bark: sailing license BR and sport boat license for the lake . with official exam questions. 18th edition. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1992, ISBN 3-7688-0734-7 , p. 36 f .
  3. ^ German high seas sports association "Hansa" eV (ed.): Seemannschaft . Yachting manual. 23rd edition. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-7688-0523-9 , p. 373 f .
  4. ↑ Roland Denk: New sailing school: from beginner to sport boat license inland and R license . with attached exam questions. 11th edition. BLV Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Munich / Vienna / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-405-14384-5 , p. 140 .
  5. ↑ a b Annex 1 of the SeeSchStrO. B.16 Identification of special areas and locations. (No longer available online.) ELWIS , archived from the original on June 21, 2016 ; accessed on June 21, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elwis.de
  6. ↑ International Association of Lighthouse Authorities : Maritime Bouyage System (PDF, 156 kB), p. 2, accessed on February 9, 2016