This is way out of my area (I have flown over Old Miss a bunch of times, and remember [slightly] riding over it at the ripe old age of four), but I am thinking visability, like maybe those flags on long poles that some bicycle and dune buggy's have, or maybe a 360 degree flashing strobe light or something. You can never tell when some water skier or jetski will come zipping around the corner...
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