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Emergency card for your boat

Choose where you sail, fill in your boat's details and print. Keep it by the radio or the helm, and give one to every charter crew. In an emergency nobody remembers the number — or the words.

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VESSELSOS · EMERGENCY CARD
LIFE IN DANGER AT SEA — CALL
VHF CHANNEL 16 · OR PRESS THE RED DSC DISTRESS BUTTON (CH 70)
  1. MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY.
  2. THIS IS ×3
  3. CALL SIGN MMSI
  4. MAYDAY
  5. MY POSITION IS ____° ____′ N/S  ____° ____′ E/W
  6. What happened (sinking · fire · person overboard · medical · aground)
  7. WE REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE.
  8. WE ARE ___ PEOPLE ON BOARD.
  10. OVER.
ON THE PHONE

“Boat emergency, I'm on the water.” Then: where you are (latitude and longitude, or distance and direction from a landmark), what happened, how many people, what the boat looks like. Stay on the line.

Number checked against the official source on . Numbers change — scan for the current one. This card does not replace a VHF radio or an EPIRB.