Perhaps it means to signal your desire to have a bridge open?

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"Charlie Morgan" wrote in message
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:29:19 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

It's one of the internationally recognized distress signals. Easy one.

Sorry, that's incorrect.

Why would you lower a distress signal as soon as you had raised it?

CWM