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If you get shipwrecked on a desert island you might need to send a message asking for help to passing ships. You could do this using semaphore signals.
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Semaphore is a way of sending messages over long distances, using two hand-held flags. The person sending the message holds the flags in a different position for each letter of the alphabet.
Look at Crackers the crab doing the full semaphore A-Z.