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Equipment - Marine rescue

  • The cylindrical beacon transmitter is shown out of its canvas bag. It consists of an orange canaster and wound up line.

    EPIRB Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon

  • A yellow canvas bag containing the EPIRB shown in the stowed position on its side .

    EPIRB Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon

  • The cylindrical beacon transmitter is shown out of its canvas bag. It consists of an orange canaster and wound up line.
  • A yellow canvas bag containing the EPIRB shown in the stowed position on its side .

Historical information

An emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) is a type of emergency locator beacon, a portable, battery-powered radio transmitter used in emergencies to locate airplanes, vessels, and persons in distress and in need of immediate rescue.

Significance

Since the inception of Cospas-Sarsat in 1982, distress radio beacons have assisted in the rescue of over 28,000 people in more than 7,000 distress situations. In 2010 alone, the system provided information used to rescue 2,388 persons in 641 distress situations.

Physical description

Two battery operated emergency distress beacons EPIRB [Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon] in orange containers with attached line in yellow canvas bags.

Inscriptions & markings

I'm going sailing, I'm coming back; B900; radio distress transmitter operating instructions; made by Don Osborne & associates, box 69 052 Aukland 8 New Zealand.i

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