Ocean Signal rescueME PLB1 prompts speedy response from emergency services after Susi Thomas damages vertebrae and breaks ribs in New Zealand trekking accident. After a previous accident brought home the difficulty of getting help when out in remote locations, keen riders Martin and Susi Thomas were thankful to have invested in an Ocean Signal rescueME […]
70-year-old Terry Mulhern from Opotiki was winched to safety by Trust Tairawhiti rescue helicopter after rupturing an Achilles tendon in Urewera. The importance of carrying a life-saving Personal Locator Beacon in remote regions was brought home to experienced hunter and tramper Terry Mulhern when he was rescued in the Urewera bush this November.The 70-year-old was […]
Swathed in a sleeping bag and a purple jacket, a hiker sits smiling at the camera. Next to her, a small yellow device sits on a rock, antenna extended, flashing a reassuring strobe light at two-second intervals. The hiker is Karma Forester, and she’s in the Dividalen National Park in northern Norway, 33km from habitation […]
Marcel Tremblay, pictured trimming the spinnaker during this year’s SoCal 300 ocean race on Prevail (a SANTA Cruz 52), was wearing an Ocean Signal rescueME MOB1 when he fell overboard The importance of wearing his Ocean Signal rescueME MOB1 was demonstrated beyond doubt to experienced sailor Marcel Tremblay this spring when he fell overboard in […]
When a guard rail gave way, plunging a 54-year-old sailor into the cold spring waters of the Solent in April, the rapid automatic activation of his Ocean Signal rescueME MOB1 sounded an alarm aboard his boat, alerting fellow crew members, while the display of his position on a chartplotter aided a speedy recovery. Ironically, the […]
Electronic distress flare proves crucial in directing emergency services to exact location of casualty in challenging Force 5 conditions The volunteer RNLI crew on Loch Ness has highlighted the value of including an LED flare in any boat or personal watersports safety kit after they were successfully guided to an endurance paddleboarder stranded without his […]
METSTRADE, 14th to 16th November, Stand 03.125 ‘Within 25 minutes of the EPIRB being set off, we were in the airbase taking a shower’ – sailor Edward Harwood UK sailor Edward Harwood says his Ocean Signal SafeSea 100G EPIRB ‘proved worth its weight in gold’ after he and his crew were dramatically rescued from their […]
Two ocean rowers have been rescued by the Irish Coast Guard from their overturned boat off the coast of Mizen Head, County Cork, after the activation of their Ocean Signal rescueME EPIRB1. Brian Conville, 25, from Dublin and Joseph Gagnon, 20, from Quebec, Canada, were just hours away from completing a record-breaking North Atlantic crossing […]
A horse rider from Yamhill County in Oregon, US, used her Ocean Signal rescueME PLB1 to call for help after she was badly injured after being thrown from her horse. Jean Cramer told Oregon-based television station KATU that she was ‘very happy’ to successfully test her personal locator beacon after she broke her leg, as […]
Portuguese emergency services respond to SafeSea E100G distress signal to airlift crew members of Rainha Iemanja from rocks off São Miguel Four crew members of a fishing boat which hit rocks off the coast of São Miguel Island in the Azores were successfully rescued after their Ocean Signal EPIRB was activated. After receiving the distress signal […]