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I AM indebted to the Air Ministry and especially to the civilian staff of the Air-Sea Warfare Development Unit for a copy of the valuable report on “The Optimum Dinghy Colour for Air-Sea Rescue”. Colours were tried from a yellow close to the Schott glass O.G.1, through orange and fire orange, near Schott O.G.2, onwards to traffic red and post-office red, like Schott R.G.1. The overall average visual range of the five coloured M-type dinghies for all-round weather conditions around the British Isles was approximately 1.7 nautical miles (3.15 km.). The waters were mostly greenish, but this is not always so on our coasts.
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Adam, N. K., "Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces", 213 (1941).
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ATKINS, W. Size Versus Colour in Air-Sea Rescue. Nature 159, 612–613 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159612c0
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