Guidelines for mounting either a manually deployed EPIRB (Category II) or an automatically deployed EPIRB (Category I). The ...

HONOLULU -- The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that the two Hawaii women who were lost at sea for five months had an emergency beacon aboard their sailboat that was never activated. U.S. Coast Guard ...

We have seen many comments on Facebook about EPIRBs. It stands for Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. Many of you asked if this type of device is a requirement for boaters. An EPIRB is meant ...

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has called for emergency beacon users to correctly dispose of their devices following a false activation in the south of Western Australia. An emergency ...

Two US women who were rescued by a navy ship after spending five months adrift at sea had an emergency beacon aboard their sailboat, but never activated it, the coast guard says. The women said they ...

Every year the Coast Guard makes thousands of phone calls to mariners, boat owners and emergency points of contact in response to receiving distress alerts from emergency position indicating radio ...

The three coastal bend fishermen who spent a week floating in the Gulf of Mexico before being rescued could have been saved in hours if they’d had an emergency beacon on their boat. Rod Rice reports.

HONOLULU — The US Coast Guard said Monday that the two Hawaii women who were lost at sea for five months had an emergency beacon aboard their sailboat that was never activated. Coast Guard spokesman ...

HONOLULU — The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that the two Hawaii women who were lost at sea for five months had an emergency beacon aboard their sailboat that was never activated. Subscribe to read ...