If you’re US Coast Guard-compliant, you already have a set of flares inside your Coast Guard kit. But do you know what kind they ... You would use these when other boats or rescuers are in the ...

Visual distress signals (VDS) are mandatory on most boats but hopefully never needed. VDS come in various flavors. You should not only check at the start of every season to make sure your flares are ...

Lee Putnam of Coast Guard Sector Guam said people aboard a 15-foot vessel a couple miles off shore near Adelup shot a few flares into the air, allowing fire department rescue to locate the boat.