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A buddy and I were riding our jet skis to Chesapeake and Delaware canal.
There are a series of these towers in the water. The have lights at the top that made me think the towers are associated with an airport, I don’t know if any airport is near there.
My first thought was, it was just a cell tower, but then the fact there’s like a series of them in the line, maybe go kind-of X-Fileish about them.
Usually just has a few moblins and a treasure chest
You made a booger come out my nose 😂
There's a small group called "Project Lighthouse" doing lighthouse restoration on the bay and documenting it on YouTube. Perhaps you'd enjoy them!
At one point they even posted an interaction with a jetskier. Maybe it was you.
That is really cool, I am checkout their videos now.
Enjoy!
Happy mutual cake Day! 🍰 🎂
Is it? Neat! Same to you!
The bay is a big place, can you be more specific where you were? Lat/Long would be even more helpful because we can look it up on a chart.
Broadly speaking, it could be a multi-purpose tower, to include navigation lights.
I apologize I don’t have longitude latitude, but the towers were between Poole’s island and the Turkey point lighthouse.
Aberdeen Proving Grounds is in that area.
I found them. They are called range lights, they come in pairs and mariners use them to line themselves up for the center of the channel:
In this image, the crosshairs are on the “front” light, thus the channel they provide guidance for (the black areas on the chart) is to the northeast of the crosshairs. There are another pair which allows mariners to make the turn and then line up on an outbound course.
Similar principle to the iron sights on firearms, or in land navigation. By lining up two points, one can travel or sight along a single line.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_lights
Thank you !!!
They can also be used to guide you in and out of shallow areas to get to land. The general rule is "red right return", which means to slowly head towards land with the red light staying just to your right. There's often a paired green light with it to the left.
Those are the navigation beacons or lateral bouys. OPs pictures are specifically range lights.
Ah gotcha, thanks for the clarification.
