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2. Emergency locator beacon - Wikipedia

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   Personal locator beacon for divers - sealed for immersion. MSLDs (Maritime Survivor Locating Devices) are man-overboard signalling devices, first standardized in 2016. [3] A Maritime Survivor Locator Device (MSLD) is a man-overboard locator beacon. In the U.S., rules were established in 2016 in 47 C.F.R. Part 95.

3. SPOT Satellite Messenger - Wikipedia

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   In early 2018, SPOT launched the SPOT X, a two-way satellite messaging device with GPS location tracking, navigational capabilities, social media linking and direct communication options to emergency services. In February 2023, Kurt Knutsson of CyberGuy Report at Fox News included Spot X in a review of "the 5 best" personal locator beacons (PLB).

4. Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon - Wikipedia

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   Overview diagram of COSPAS-SARSAT communication system used to detect and locate ELTs, EPIRBs, and PLBs First generation EPIRB emergency locator beacons. An emergency position-indicating radiobeacon (EPIRB) is a type of emergency locator beacon for commercial and recreational boats, a portable, battery-powered radio transmitter used in emergencies to locate boaters in distress and in need of ...

5. Satellite emergency notification device - Wikipedia

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   A Satellite Emergency Notification Device or SEND is a portable emergency notification and locating device which uses commercial satellite systems rather than the COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system. An example of this device is SPOT. The devices use an internal GPS chip to gather location information. When the SEND is triggered, this information is ...

6. Radio beacon - Wikipedia

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   PLBs (personal locator beacons) are for personal use and are intended to indicate a person in distress who is away from normal emergency response capabilities (i.e. 911) The basic purpose of distress radio beacons is to rescue people within the so-called "golden day" (the first 24 hours following a traumatic event), when the majority of ...

7. International Cospas-Sarsat Programme - Wikipedia

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   In the early 2000s (in 2003 in the USA) a new type of distress beacon, the personal locator beacon (PLB), became available [43] for use by individuals who cannot contact emergency services through normal telephone-originated services, such as 1-1-2 or 9-1-1. Typically PLBs are used by people engaged in recreational activities in remote areas ...