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~The light must never be extinguished ~
needs a guidance when sailing. Ships, war vessels, yachts, small boats and so on need lighthouses to indicate their routes through safe waters.
By means of nautical charts, in which all aids to navigation of an specific area are listed, every sailor would reach their arrival ports in complete safety. Aids to navigation are meant also to give accurate position of a vessel and to alert against dangers like shipwrecks.
Lighthouses can be automated or not. The first ones don't need a keeper to function. Only periodical equipment's mantainence is demanded. Meanwhile, the non automated ones do need a keeper 24 hours a day on duty. Well, it's not easy to be a lighthouse keeper... Sometimes you'll have to spend two whole years on an island, far away from the shore and sometimes away from your own family too!
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Here in Brazil, lighthouses as welll as beacons and buoys are naval devices under Brazilian Navy responsibility! Nowadays most of our lighthouse keepers are sailors as well.
My hubby is a lighthouse keeper! I've made a page just for him, you can check it out here.
This is Cabo Frio lighthouse where he lived for two and a half years! An eighteen metres high structure, established on 1834. It's light can be seen from 49 miles away!
These are two of my favourites lighthouses:
Cabo Branco lighthouse, automated, located at João Pessoa, Paraíba (Northern part of Brazil). Established on 1972, range 27 miles This is "my" lighthouse :o)) I mean it is located at my home town!
Rasa lighthouse, located at Rasa
island just in front of Ipanema I have this lighthouse as a companion every time I go for a walk along Ipanema beach!
~The light must never be extinguished ~
Updated on October, 16, 2004 Page created on 2001 |
