"Richard Ferguson" wrote in message
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The standard answer is that three of anything is an distress signal. It
could be three gunshots, three blasts of a horn, you name it. This applies
on land or sea. You can signal SOS in morse code with three shorts, three
longs, and three shorts. I would suggest two seconds for shorts, six
seconds for longs, with at least two seconds between toots, maybe 10
seconds between the shorts and the longs. I have not tested this to see
how well the sound carries over long distances.

I have never been a fan of the compressed air horns, figure that I will
grab it after years of not needing it, and all the air will have leaked
out. I guess I believe in Murphy's law.

The Blaster Horn that we are talking about is mouth powered, and plenty
loud.

If you are worried about getting lost in the swamp, a GPS is probably the
easiest solution, just mark the starting point, and when you want to go
back, tell the GPS to point you which way to go. It is almost that easy,
but practice by walking around your neighborhood. Obviously, you may not
be able to go in the shortest line, but it will tell you the direction and
distance in real time, and keep you from heading away from your car.

If you have a shoreline for the swamp, then a compass will get you home.
Compasses do not need batteries, while GPSs tend to be battery hungry.

Richard

Thank you, Richard. This is great information. I wasn't planning to invest
in a GPS just yet. So I'll use a compass and definitely get a manual horn.
I love that idea; it makes much more sense than anything expendable.

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Joanne

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