Moderated Discussion Excerpts -
Lights and Strobes

This short clip (5:10) from the discussion which touches on the use of strobes as a non-emergency visibility tool -- specifically, to the surprise of many paddlers, the CG said that a strobe can be the best way let other mariners know you’re out there, if used on an intermittent basis.

BM1 Paul Church, USCG: “You don’t want to run it on all the time, it’s just when you get into a traffic situation where you go ‘I don’t think he sees me’...you just put it on...once you get that sense ‘that captain sees me’...you turn it off.”