Red & white dive flag - a short history

[rhwestfall]

@Sam Miller III :

this was in a sales email from Momentum Watches (Vancouver BC)...

thought you might get a "chuckle" out of it....

 

[Sam Miller III]

@rhwestfall
Thanks for the heads up --appreciated--(stay warm and dry)

Is Momentum Watches serious ?

I suspect with in a very short time after a certain article is published in a national magazine they will be changing their advertisements

There is absolutely no record of Doc Dockery having ANY involvement with the development, promotion or establishment of the red & white flag as a flag of recreational diving!

Sam Miller, 111.

 

[Akimbo]

There is absolutely no record of Doc Dockery having ANY involvement with the development, promotion or establishment of the red & white flag as a flag of recreational diving!

As near as I can determine, there is no corroboration of Dockery's comparatively recent claims that are not solely based on his claims, unlike Ted Nixon's fairly extensive papertrail. The Red & White flag was well established in the US by the time I became a diver in 1962 so I have no first hand information, unlike @Sam Miller III.

Question/flag trivia: Does anyone remember a Red & White flag in any of the Sea Hunt episodes? Sea Hunt was around the time that the flag was proposed by Nixon.

 

[Akimbo]

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I did find a brief reference to the Bravo flag in the first US Navy Diving Manual from 1916, but only in the gear inventory checklist. I couldn't find any reference to flags in the 1943 USN Diving Manual (Alfa or Bravo). The Bravo Flag references I could find indicates that the Royal Navy started using it in the 1880s to for transferring dangerous cargo -- mainly munitions.

I think that @Bob DBF was a signalman in the Navy and might know more about the original use of the Bravo Flag, beyond using it in combination with others for the letter "B".

 

[Bob DBF]

Wasen't a proffessional skivvy waver in the Navy, except in the s**t disturber meaning of the phrase. Just have a a wide range of useless knowledge that lets me occasionally answer a question.

Have a range of BJMs, and submarine, Naval, and military books in my library, now if I had time to arrange it properly after the move.


Bob
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Submariner. ET1(SS) RO