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A flag divided red over yellow, marking the lifeguarded bathing area.
Also known as: Lifeguard flag, Swim between the flags, Patrolled area flag
A flag divided red above and yellow below marks the area a lifeguard is watching. A pair of them defines the zone between: bathe between the flags and you are in the patrolled water, outside them you are not. It is the one beach flag that means something positive, and it is regularly misread as a warning because it contains red — which is exactly why it is worth looking up.
Marks the patrolled bathing area. A pair of them defines the zone between, which is the water a lifeguard is watching; outside the pair nobody is.
Contexts: Public information, Navigation
Is the one flag in the system that grants rather than restricts, and is regularly misread as a warning because half of it is red — a misreading that keeps people out of the safest water on the beach.
Contexts: Public information, Navigation
A rectangular flag divided by a horizontal line into two equal bands, the upper band one colour and the lower another, flown in pairs along the shore.
One closes the water and one marks the safest part of it, and both contain red.
One flag within the beach flag system.