Help,I am lost

[Van]

My 0.02....
For the amount of times I go offshore, I got the ACR plb.
The ACR has a floating pouch accessory for like 10 bucks.

Lay it on dash, clip it on your PDF or put somewhere it will be accessible or will be free to float to the top.

Pros: Small and portable. Works fine way offshore.
Cons: It is manually activated.

Either way its better than not having one at all, (which I did for many years). I have taken it on other boats too.

[likwid]

ACR GlobalFix PRO Cat 2 and mount it in an easily accessible spot.
This is for the BOAT.

PLBs are for your person.

Wait around for a bit, ACR offers deals pretty often.

[beamie]

This is a little bit of symantics but just to clarify.

Don't say that EPIRP's are for "the boat".......it is really for the situation. Epirbs don't stay with the boat.

If a Cat 1, it releases, or you hope it realeases and activates. Where does this go??? it is drifting in the ocean, hopefully after you get over the initial shock of the incident, it is in site of you and you can grab it and keep it with you. But lets face it, usually it is not a bluebird day. So the epirb in the end may end up hundreds of yards or miles from you until you are rescued.

The Cat 2 has to be manually activated, so this turns out to be a bigger PLB. And try to keep this with You, if not it drifts away just like the Cat 1.

On ships we make it someones duty to grab the Cat 1, if there is time, in an abandon ship situation so this stays with one of the lifeboats/liferafts since they do not have an epirb of there own. There is just 1 Cat 1 for the vessel. We also have other means of distress comms also.

[likwid]

Originally Posted by beamie

This is a little bit of symantics but just to clarify.

Don't say that EPIRP's are for "the boat".......it is really for the situation. Epirbs don't stay with the boat.

If a Cat 1, it releases, or you hope it realeases and activates. Where does this go??? it is drifting in the ocean, hopefully after you get over the initial shock of the incident, it is in site of you and you can grab it and keep it with you. But lets face it, usually it is not a bluebird day. So the epirb in the end may end up hundreds of yards or miles from you until you are rescued.

The Cat 2 has to be manually activated, so this turns out to be a bigger PLB. And try to keep this with You, if not it drifts away just like the Cat 1.

On ships we make it someones duty to grab the Cat 1, if there is time, in an abandon ship situation so this stays with one of the lifeboats/liferafts since they do not have an epirb of there own. There is just 1 Cat 1 for the vessel. We also have other means of distress comms also.

Tell me, what is an EPIRB registered to?
What is a PLB registered to?

[beamie]

Originally Posted by likwid

Tell me, what is an EPIRB registered to?
What is a PLB registered to?

Like I said Likwid.....a bit of symantics, yes an Epirb is registered to a vessel, and a PLB is for an individual......the people coming to rescue you are not coming to rescue the boat they are coming for you (people). Do you think they will come get you if you lend your plb to someone else for the weekend and it is not registered in the same name as the person in peril? of course to will.

The point I am trying to make for the people that don't know how it works is that the epirb does not stay with the boat when deployed.