🔍 Key Concepts

• INLAND Navigation Rules regarding lights and shapes • Special identification lights used by law enforcement or government vessels • Difference between normal navigation lights and flashing blue lights

💭 Think About

• Which types of vessels need to be quickly and clearly identified by other mariners for safety and compliance reasons? • Do work boats, race boats, or hazardous cargo vessels have any special colored flashing lights assigned to them by the Inland Rules? • When you think of a blue flashing light on the water, what does that most closely resemble from what you see on land?

✅ Before You Answer

• Check the INLAND-only provisions for special flashing lights and what color(s) they may be • Verify which vessel type, if any, is specifically associated with a blue flashing light • Confirm that work boats, race vessels, and hazardous cargo vessels have their own identification methods that do NOT normally involve blue flashing lights under Inland Rules