“From the Coast Guard:

If you get swept out to sea or fall off your boat in the middle of the ocean, you had BETTER be wearing neon bright orange/yellow.

Believe it or not, we are in the helicopters and planes looking for you with our literal eyeballs. You are a tiny speck surrounded by the navy blue water – so you had better be a bright orange speck and not a navy blue speck.

One time we rescued someone who told us that we flew over him multiple times without seeing him before he remembered he had red board shorts on under his wetsuit.

He took those off and out and waved them at us. We saw the red and were able to get him.

Pointing + throwing trash/items overboard when someone falls in the ocean is good advice. The trash creates a larger visual landmark so we can follow the trail of debris towards the person in the water…”