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Standard Marine Distress Signals
Search and Rescue/Canadian Coast Guard
Radio
Radiotelephone
Call: "Mayday!"
Give: name and position
Use: 156.8 MHz-Ch16
2182 kHz;
or use alarm signal.
VHF-DSC
406 MHz
Emergency position indicating radiobeacon
EPIRB
Code
Flags
N over C
Distress Cloth
Ball
over or under
Square
Sound Signals
Continuous: Foghorn, bell, whistle.
![Sound signals: 1-minute intervals. A gun or any explosive.](/web/20060212043105im_/http://www.tc.gc.ca/marinesafety/Tp/tp10038/images/part-8-gif/part8-1-0004.gif)
1-minute intervals: Gun or any explosive
Flares
Type A:
Parachute rocket
Type B:
Multi-star rocket
Type C:
Hand-held
Type D:
Buoyant or hand-held orange smoke
Flashlight
Arm Signal
Do not use near helicopter (different meaning)
Flame on Vessel
as from burning tar, oil in barrel, etc.
Dye Marker
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