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    Re: Does "Lifeboat Navigation" exist today?
    From: John Brown
    Date: 2015 Jun 18, 00:00 -0700

    Hewitt

    I agree that a VHF radio is very useful in a liferaft or lifeboat, partricularly when the maritime patrol aircraft is overhead or the rescue vessel is approaching.  However, bridge watchkeepers can not be guaranteed to pay close attention to short range VHF in the middle of an ocean with nothing in sight.  It is a visual or radar sighting which often triggers an interest in the VHF, so the problem remains one of being seen in the first place - hence the mandatory inclusion of flares and a heliograph in the emergency kit.

    John

       
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