The Ocean City Beach Patrol guards the resort’s beaches seven days a week from 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. While on duty, they often get questions from beachgoers. The following is our Question of the Week.

With each position representing different letters, numerals and special signs ... William Scott, utilizing the Signal Corps semaphore flags. "This ceremony symbolizes the back to basics campaign ...

Originally developed by French engineer Claude Chappe, semaphore involved a network of towers with mechanical arms or flags positioned differently to represent letters, numbers, and symbols.

The peace symbol is a combination of the semaphore letters “N” and “D”, representing “nuclear” and “disarmament.” Many reference books have this information. “Less than ...