Sea Areas A1, A2, A3 and A4: What Radio Equipment the GMDSS Requires in Each
If a shipowner, a student or the head of a maritime academy looks up what radio equipment a ship needs,...
Navigation lights: how to tell which way a ship is heading at night
Navigation lights are first learned as a catalogue, and rightly so: until you know what the vessel is, there is...
Man overboard: the first sixty seconds are not the manoeuvre
In training courses, "man overboard" is a manoeuvre. It gets drawn on the board, each variant has its own name,...
The distress button is pressed and the radio switches to 16: what do you say, and in what order
The red button on a VHF is explained in thirty seconds: lift the cover, hold it down, the alert goes...
How often an EPIRB battery is replaced (and the two other dates nobody checks)
An EPIRB is taught as a device that gets activated. What it is, where it is mounted, how it is...
MAYDAY, PAN-PAN and SÉCURITÉ: which one applies
MAYDAY, PAN-PAN and SÉCURITÉ are three words a cadet memorises in five minutes. Choosing the right one, with the situation degrading...