A Special Message for You
from the Extreme 2003 Team!

The Extreme 2003 team is heading back home now and wanted to send you this special message using International Maritime Signal Flags. Can you decipher it? These flags can be used to spell out short messages, as we have done below. More commonly, they are used individually or in combination to communicate important messages to other ships such as "Man overboard," "I am altering my course to starboard," and other critical information when phone or radio communication is not available or when radio silence is required. Strung end to end and bow to stern from the rigging, these flags often are used to decorate a ship for ceremonial and festive occasions. To learn more, please see this page developed by the Australian government: http://www.anbg.gov.au/flags/signal-flags.html.