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 […]
A lone hiker who activated his Ocean Signal rescueME PLB1 while suffering from hyperthermia in heavy rain and wind in an isolated area of New Zealand’s South Island has thanked his rescuers. Experienced and well-prepared bush walker Warwick Ross was attempting a circuit hike by the Pyke River in the south west of the island […]
A keen hiker has vowed to never venture out tramping in the New Zealand bush again without the security of his Ocean Signal rescueME PLB1 after he activated the device to help save an injured woman. Stranded in a back country hut with a broken leg, the patient and her fellow party members had no […]
When Mark Bernucho left his Louisiana home for a fishing trip, little did he know that the tiny Ocean Signal PLB1 personal locator beacon he always carries would be so useful. When the fishing was proving unproductive he decided to move to a new site, but the engine on his 20 foot aluminium V-Hull boat […]
Ocean Signal’s rescueME PLB1 personal locator beacon played an integral part in the rescue of a Japanese tourist in New Zealand this year. The 83-year-old activated his PLB1 after slipping into the river in the middle of the large Kaweka Forest Park and was subsequently picked up by a rescue helicopter. “It saved my life! […]
An 18-year-old bush-walker was rescued from the Stirling Ranges in Western Australia after activating his rescueME PLB1. The teenager became disorientated while walking in wild terrain near Bluff Knoll in the Stirling Ranges National Park, with no food or water with him. Following the distress call, a police officer was winched into the area, but […]
Three motorbike riders were rescued from a remote area of Australia’s Simpson Desert after alerting rescue services using their Ocean Signal rescueME PLB1. Kevin Chapman, along with two friends, was at the end of the first day of a long-planned crossing of the Simpson Desert, riding through great scenery and terrain, when disaster struck after […]