never met with success.

Thanks for the information.  You would think there would be little
difficulty arriving at a world standard for navigation markers, given
that so many vessels travel between the "A" and "B" sectors of the
world.  It's not like half the people would have to change their ships
from right hand to left hand drive or something. The only cost, although
I suppose it would be considerable, would be to change the markers
themselves and the relevant charts.  This would be an economic
undertaking, but I don't see that it would be a political one.  The
whole world uses the same standard for stoplights (top-green,
middle-yellow, bottom-red). The standards for air navigation are the
same the world over-- pilots in Malaysia use the same kind of instrument
approach equipment and charts as pilots in the US and Europe.  So I
find it hard to imagine any valid reasons a maritime nation could put
forward for not going to a uniform system of navigation markers, outside
of the cost.  National pride I suppose.....

C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington

C. Marin Faure wrote:

I know you folks on the left coast don't think much of us on the right, but
to add a bit more fuel to the fire our traffic lights follow a much more
civilized pattern in being the reverse of the standard you stipulated!

Yep. All we need are a few odd billions to admit they've been "wrong" all
this time and volunteer to mend their ways.

Regards,

James

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Faure, Marin wrote:

What part of the world are you from?  At least wherever I've lived
(US East and West coasts), the Red light has been on top and green on
bottom.  (Except for a few streets in downtown Trenton, NJ, where the
fixtures were mounted horizontally;  I think green was on the right.)

:)