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    DISTRESS AND URGENCY

    Sep 16, 2021 3 minutes

    If you are in trouble and need help, you should follow the exact format for MAYDAY and PAN PAN calls. Sadly, such calls are frequently made unnecessarily, which just wastes valuable search and rescue assets which could be more usefully employed, so make sure you fulfil the criteria for each:

    DISTRESS (MAYDAY)

    A vessel or person is in grave and imminent danger and requires immediate assistance.

    Note the underlined words. ‘Grave’ implies a risk of serious injury, death or loss of the vessel; ‘Imminent’ and ‘Immediate’ are self-explanatory but

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