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EasyRescue AIS SART – The Must Have Safety Device Of The Future

By On October 5, 2010

gCaptain has long been a proponent of Personal Locator Beacons (PLB), the handheld sized versions of EPIRB’s and we have even gone as far as saying “gCaptain believes that one [...]

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Personal Locator Beacons – EPIRBS For Your Lifejacket

By On September 15, 2010

gCaptain has long been a fan of the idea behind SPOT’s personal locator devices but gCaptain readers have pointed out a major concern, a SPOT it is not a PLB [...]

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McMurdo Fast-Find 210 – Change In The Way You Think About EPIRBS

By On June 26, 2009

A few months ago we received a press release from McMurdo on a revolutionary product, the Fast-Find 210 PLB, a portable version of an EPIRB, The revolutionary part was not [...]

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Digital Television Can’t Save Your Life…A 406 MHz EPIRB, PLB or ELT Can!

By On December 26, 2008

Most of you probably already know that starting in February 2009, over-the-air television broadcasts will be going digital in the United States. This means that if you want to continue [...]

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EPIRB, GPIRB, ELT, PLB… What’s The Difference?

By On December 20, 2008

In the following video we discus the various types of Position Indicating Radio Beacons. We explore the diffrences between an EPIRB, GPIRB, ELT and the increasingly less expensive PLB’s . [...]

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Holiday Gift Guide | Spot Globalstar Messenger – Emergency Locater

By On November 22, 2007

Panbo, the marine electronics blog, brings us today’s gCaptain Holiday Gift Suggestion. The unit is the SPOT Satellite Messenger & Emergency Locater and it’s fairly amazing. First a note. This [...]

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