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Your Marine Parts Specialists Help You Get Through Unexpected Emergencies<\/strong><\/div>\n
Raritan Engineering Company your marine parts<\/a>\u00a0professionals would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding how to choose the right type of distress signal for you to use.<\/div>\n
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Your marine parts analysts know that working at sea might lead to a situation wherein an emergency arises requiring\u00a0the assistance of another vessel or that of shore authorities. In the off chance that it does lead to this, one must use whatever is available at hand to ensure that the safety of life is not compromised.<\/div>\n
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For the purpose of clarity with regard to this article, let us classify the marine distress signals under two sections:<\/p>\n

1) Pyrotechnic Signals and,<\/p>\n

2) Non-Pyrotechnic Signals<\/p>\n

Pyrotechnic Signals<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are the means capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for\u00a0the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and\/or sound.<\/p>\n

Non-Pyrotechnic\u00a0Signaling<\/strong><\/p>\n

As opposed to pyrotechnic signaling, these are the methods used without the necessity of an exothermic reaction to attract attention at the time of distress. Following are the means of non pyrotechnic signaling\u00a0used onboard ships:<\/p>\n

1. Orange Signal Flag:\u00a0<\/strong>Listed under the Annex IV of the IMO International Regulations For Preventing Collisions At Sea, this signal consists of a square flag which has above or below it a ball or any other object that resembles a ball.<\/p>\n

2. Marker Dyes:\u00a0<\/strong>In accordance with the Annex IV as mentioned above, a dye marker may be used for the purposes of distress signaling.<\/p>\n

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3. SOS:\u00a0<\/strong>The universally known SOS as per the Morse Code which basically is the most widely known way to communicate distress.<\/p>\n

4. Radio Signals:\u00a0<\/strong>As part of the GMDSS, radio signaling\u00a0is a method of communicating distress at sea. A distress alert may be sent by the Digital Selective Calling methods transmitted on the VHF channel 70 or the following MF\/HF frequencies:<\/p>\n