Dutch Sailor Forced to Abandon Yacht in 2022 ARC Emergency Highlights Lifesaving EPIRB
February 1st, 2023 – Speaking out to urge all sailors to carry an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB), Dutch captain Menno Schröder recounts the rescue of X-Yacht 4.9 Brainstorm during last year’s ARC (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers). A year later as the 2023 ARC January participants complete the course, the experienced sailor says the […]
Ocean Signal Wins Overall Dame Design Award 2022 for rescueME PLB3 AIS Personal Locator Beacon
Ocean Signal has won the Overall DAME Design Award 2022 for its rescueME PLB3 AIS Personal Locator Beacon (PLB). Jury Chair Andre Hoek presented the world-renowned award to the Ocean Signal team at the METSTRADE Breakfast Briefing following judgment by an international panel of leading design and user experts. Described as “the standout product in […]
OCEAN SIGNAL LAUNCHES RESCUEME PLB3 – COSPAS-SARSAT APPROVED LIFE-SAVING PERSONAL LOCATOR BEACON WITH AIS AND MOBILE APP IN ONE COMPACT BEACON FOR BOATERS
Combining multiple levels of integrated signal technology within a personal locator beacon for the first time, the newly Cospas-Sarsat and RED approved Ocean Signal rescueME PLB3 offers boaters the most powerful safety solution for rapid rescue in a Man Overboard (MOB) emergency. The next generation PLB3 unites two different key systems to provide a survivor […]