Updated: September 16, 2010 (Originally published 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 
[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3760093735277779241#[/googlevideo]
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