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Originally Posted by unclebilly
EPIRBs are obsolete. I remember throwing ours out in the late 90's. I bet nobody monitors the signals anymore.
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Up til my retirement 7 years ago we responded to EPIRB hit's all the time. And did for the whole time I was in, twenty years. Often it was at the dock with someone moving it around. We even chased one down heading across the state. Owner pulled it off his boat when moving, tossed it in the back of his pickup and headed out. I'm fairly certain we still do. There are also several classes of EPIRB's, depending on the carriage requirements some don't do as much as others. Commercial vessels as well as any Documented vessel have to have them. That's US regs, didn't pay attention too much to safety requirements for other countries.-WW (USCG ret.)