Making a Mayday Call: Who We Are and Where We Are
Posted on February 1, 2010
Filed under About Kayaks, How to Kayak, Kayaking Guides and tagged Coast Guard search and rescue, fiberglass sea kayak, kayak repair, kayaking, kayaks, marine vhf radio, mayday calls, Sea Kayaking, VHF radio audio rescue transcripts, VHF radio use
<!-- AddThis Bookmark Post Button END -->Above: Mayday audio, Cape Cod Massachusetts. One of the keys to making a mayday call on channel 16 via a vhf radio is to be sure that we describe where we are. After all, the Coast Guard -- or whoever else happens to pick up our call -- needs to know where to look for us.Also we need to describe what we are: in our case a sea kayak or a group of sea
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