Significats de epirb en anglès

In Sunderland's case, her parents were able to determine that two of her EPIRBs had been activated manually.

A yellow plastic EPIRB.

Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRB) are standard on large vessels, but personal, portable devices are not as widespread.

PLBs and EPIRBs, cell phones and BlackBerries, and the new SPOT messenger technology have all made wilderness travel safer than ever.

When activated, an EPIRB can send a distress signal to a satellite that relays the emergency to the relevant national service.

The women later said that they chose not to activate the EPIRB because they never feared their lives were in imminent danger.

Float-free EPIRB distress beacons that can activate automatically became compulsory on commercial fishing vessels from 1 January 2019.

In the high-tech marine world of radar, EPIRB, GPS, and satellite surveillance, how could hundreds of enormous vessels just get swallowed up by the sea?