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Prior to the GMDSS, the number and type of radio safety equipment ships had to carry depended upon its tonnage. With GMDSS, the number and type of radio safety equipment ships have to carry depends upon the GMDSS areas in which they travel. GMDSS sea areas are classified into the following four areas: A1, A2, A3 and A4.
Hold or qualify for a GROL, GMDSS Radio Maintainer's License, First Class Radiotelegraph Operator's Certificate, or Second Class Radiotelegraph Operator's Certificate. Those last two licenses are no longer issued. The Radiotelegraph Operator's License (T), issued in May 2013, also can have added to it a ship radar endorsement.
The long-range identification and tracking (LRIT) of ships was established as an international system on 19 May 2006 by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as resolution MSC.202 (81). [1]
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The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) is an international maritime treaty which sets out minimum safety standards in the construction, equipment and operation of merchant ships.
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The online payments company, which had about 8,500 employees before Monday’s layoffs, aims to increase its workforce to 10,000 by the end of the year. Stripe, ...
A Sailor VHF DSC unit. Digital selective calling (DSC) is a standard for transmitting predefined digital messages via the medium-frequency (MF), high-frequency (HF) and very-high-frequency (VHF) maritime radio systems.