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On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Simon Hartley wrote: > Anyway now I carry a safety sausage on all dives and usually a cylume stick > and torch. In the article I talked about some options for signaling > devices and have since had discussions with people on either this list or > SCUBA-L (I can't remember which) on the topic, I've also recieved material > and comments from people who read my article. Flares, whistles, EPIRB type > beakons have been mentioned already on this thread. From memory the > beacons I have read about (namely the SEA-MARSHALL personal locator beacon, > UK) have limited range and are probably unsuitable for instigating a search > (insufficient signal strength to bounce a signal off the sattelite) they > can, however, be located by searching aircraft from a reasonable distance. > As long as people know you are lost everything is fine. The Litton Micro B will trigger the sattelites provided you hold it so that its antenna is out of the water. There are so many tests going on that they won't scramble unless two sattelites on successive passes are triggered, which takes a fair while, so this may not be a good cold water exposure solution. Nick Simicich - njs@sc*.em*.ne* - (last choice) njs@bc*.vn*.ib*.co* http://scifi.emi.net/njs.html -- Stop by and Light Up The World!
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