A couple of fishermen were rescued after spending two hours adrift in the ocean after their boat sank. The men were returning to Mackay Harbor after a morning fishing trip when the boat was swamped by a wave, took on water ans sank quickly. They were able to activate their EPIRB as the vessel sank. [...]
A fast-thinking tugboat crew and an EPIRB are credited for saving the life of a boater sinking off the coast of the Dominican Republic. John McCoy said he was prepared with the right equipment when his boat started sinking, and a tug boat crew happened to be in the right place at the right time to [...]
A boater activated his EPIRB beacon after having problems at sea, but because the unit was an obsolete 121.5 MHz beacon it is no longer detected by the satellite systems. While the distress signal went undetected he was discovered when a vessel happened to pass by. 121.5 MHz distress beacons were phased out in 2009, to be [...]
An EPIRB has saved the life of three people after their boat capsized off Queensland's Bribie Island. Two men and a boy who shivered through three hours trapped on a capsized boat off the south-east Queensland coast almost left the shore without the safety devices that saved their lives. Jay Robinson, 31, and his two crew, [...]
