Raymarine Ray48 manual Emergency, Your ship is sinking, or on fire

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Emergency

Channel 16

If:

•Your ship is sinking, or on fire

•Someone has been lost overboard

•There exists grave and imminent danger

Use this distress procedure:

•Select Channel 16

•Say "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday."

•Give call sign and boat name

•Give location of boat

•Describe emergency

•If no answer, repeat; then try another channel

Caution

Every ship at sea is to obliged to give absolute priority to radio communications relating to ships in distress - it is vital that false distress calls or messages not be broadcast.

Calling

Channel 16 & Working Channel

If	- you wish to establish
	communications with another
	station
And	- you know which working channel
	the station is monitoring
Then	- initiate the call directly on that
	working channel
If	- you wish to establish
	communications with another
	station
And	- you do not know what working
	channel the station may be
	monitoring
Then	- initiate the call on channel 16.

After contact is made switch to a working channel.

NOTE: Due to congestion on channel 16 caused by frequent hailing of other vessels, the FCC has approved channel 9 as a second hailing channel.

Avoid excessive calling and radio checks

Always monitor before transmitting

Never interrupt emergency communications

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