In 1906, SOS was established as an international distress signal at the Berlin Radio Conference.

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Searches for the Chandlers began on Friday after they sent a distress signal.

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Another is to ensure that there are clear guidelines on what constitutes a distress signal and a vessel in distress.

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"That deal almost sunk K-Tron, " says Cloues, who was a board member at the time and received a distress signal.

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It can only send a distress signal which is then bounced off a satellite and on to one of a several rescue coordination centres.

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"Red flares are a distress signal but any members of the public seeing this near Greenock around 8pm should be aware what is going on, " he said.

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The three fishermen's vessel didn't have an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon, which transmits a distress signal anywhere in the world through a satellite system, the navy said.

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Joe Murphy, who teaches at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, said the crew sent a distress signal to which the U.S. Navy responded immediately from almost 200 miles away.

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Saturday an EPIRB distress signal from the row boat.

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Should calamity strike, you can use the device to send a distress signal to the GEOS International Emergency Response Coordination Center, a search-and-rescue service that will coordinate with local authorities to send help your way.

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If you read carefully, you can tell from the last line, that this is really a warning about some so-called 1080p televisions, not the avoid-like-the-plague distress signal it has at times been made out to be.

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The ship launched a distress signal.

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Their ongoing partnership with credit counselors would be invigorated and, in fact, newsworthy, as it would signal a new phase of commitment by major financial institutions to the relief of current distress as well as renewed support for financial literacy programs that help prevent future meltdowns.

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