Rupert Holmes highlights some of the very best new marine products and award winners seen at METSTRADE 2022, Europe’s biggest marine trade show…
Ocean Signal RescueME PLB3 AIS personal locator beacon
A key element of the METSTRADE 2022 marine show in Amsterdam is the DAME Design Awards, which recognise some of the most outstanding new pieces of marine equipment, tools or products each year. This year British companies took home many of the prizes, including the overall winner.
The advent of personal locator beacons that send a distress signal via satellite communications using the same channels as EPRIBs, plus personal AIS beacons that can show the casualty’s exact position on a boat’s chartplotter, have transformed the chances of a person that has been washed overboard.
The two devices serve different purposes, but all too often you don’t wear both at the same time,…
