Rescue services would have arrived sooner to help a trawler sinking off the north Northumberland coast last year had it been equipped with a GPS enabled EPIRB, a report has said. The U.K. Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) is circulating a safety flyer to fishing vessels to provide lessons learned from its investigation of the capsize and [...]
A boater activated his EPIRB beacon after having problems at sea, but because the unit was an obsolete 121.5 MHz beacon it is no longer detected by the satellite systems. While the distress signal went undetected he was discovered when a vessel happened to pass by. 121.5 MHz distress beacons were phased out in 2009, to be [...]
An EPIRB alert in Michigan cause the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center (AFRCC) to activate the Michigan Wing of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) on 11/9/2015 to perform a search operation. Used on boats, EPIRBs contact emergency crews in the event of a sinking or other emergency and broadcast at a designated frequency via satellite. When [...]
