🔍 Key Concepts

• Distress and Lifesaving Signals in the Navigation Rules and IMO publications • Difference between signals used by survivors on shore vs by a rescuing vessel or aircraft • Which signals are specifically described as indicating safe landing or best place to land

💭 Think About

• Think about which of these signals could realistically be made by people already on shore trying to guide a rescue craft to a particular landing spot • Consider which colors and types of signals are more typically associated with distress rather than indicating a suitable landing place • Ask yourself: which option involves a continuous motion that can clearly point out a specific location rather than just ‘I need help’?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify in the distress signal tables which one is defined as meaning “this is the best place to land” • Check whether rockets and smoke signals are generally used by the craft in distress or by the shore party guiding them • Confirm which answer choice clearly allows the signaler to indicate a particular spot rather than just signal general distress