Originally Posted by
nonsense
Except of course in the Americas, Korea, Japan and the Phillipines, where they use exactly the opposite "standard", "red right returning"!
I very nearly came to grief in Bermuda as a result of this mismatch; Bermuda, of course, is a British dependency but uses the American system.
There were two parallel channels leading out of the harbour with a submerged obstacle between them; we looked ahead, saw a red buoy to the right, and a green to the left, and naturally assumed it was safe to exit between them. Thanks to my eagle-eyed crew for spotting, at the last minute, another red buoy much further to our left, next to an island...