Appendix |
Emergency | Calling |
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.
Channel 16, 9, and 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
