AIS SART easyRESCUE-PRO

lightweight personal locating device which is fixed to clothing or lifejackets and which can be mounted onto a pole for use on a life raft.

Upon activation, the easyRESCUE-PRO unit starts transmitting AIS signals via VHF frequencies, providing the current GPS position along with COG, SOG and individual unit ID.

The victim‘s position is updated every minute and transmitted 8 times per minute for at least 96 hours.

As a result the vessels crew will know exactly where the victim is, as well as every other ship with an AIS receiver within range. When the easyRESCUE-PRO‘s AIS message is received, it triggers an alarm on every AIS chart plotter with a worldwide standarized symbol. With accurate GPS data, a search-and-rescue can initiated much faster.

Upon activation, in addition a DSC distress call is sent automatically to the own ship of the victim or further 7 ones with preprogrammed MMSI. Once the „closed loop“ has been sent to the own vessel and there has been no acknowledgement for 10 minutes, an „open loop DSC distress call“ to every DSC receiver within range will be triggered. „Open loop“ transmission will be relayed to the coast guard by commercial vessels.

If there is an acknowledgement on DSC in the „closed loop“ or by a commercial vessel in „open loop“, DSC transmissions by easyRESCUE-PRO are terminated. In the meantime AIS messages are of course still send until the unit is completely switched off.