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33 CFR 62.27: Safe water marks.

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  1. Title 33—Navigation and Navigable Waters
  2. CHAPTER I—COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
  3. SUBCHAPTER C—AIDS TO NAVIGATION
  4. PART 62—UNITED STATES AIDS TO NAVIGATION SYSTEM
  5. Subpart B—The U.S. Aids to Navigation System

Safe water marks indicate that there is navigable water all around the mark. They are often used to indicate fairways or midchannels, or the seaward end of channels. Safe water marks are colored with red and white vertical stripes. Beacons have an octagonal daymark; red and white buoys are spherical or display a red spherical topmark.

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