Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon , EPIRB (abbreviation)

Should I turn on the Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon?

It was a device called an Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon, or Epirb.

The Coast Guard now requires commercial and recreational vessels to carry a signaling device called an Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon.

Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB)

An Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon (ELT) may also be fitted into the glider to reduce search and rescue time in case of an accident.

A small Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) can be carried and activated to send out a distress signal.

"I grabbed the EPIRB (Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon), grabbed my wallet, ran out.

If you have an automatic strobe or water-activated EPIRB (Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon), these will draw attention to you.

Gray's boat was equipped with an automatically deployable EPIRB (Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon), which should have deployed and begun transmitting the instant his vessel sank.

It took courage for Michael Finkel and Chris Anderson to undertake this voyage knowing that even with their Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon, the journey could have been fatal.

Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) are required on ships, fishing vessels and tugboats above a certain size and weight—as outlined in the Canada Shipping Act and associated regulations.

Modern lifeboats carry an Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) and either a radar reflector or Search and Rescue Transponder (SART).

These four countries jointly helped develop the 406 MHz Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB), an element of the GMDSS designed to operate with Cospas-Sarsat system.

Finally, section 13 will be amended to require a ship carrying passengers operating on a foreign voyage, home-trade voyage, Class 1 or Class II, to fit a 406 MHz Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) when operating more than 20 miles offshore.