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]
Updated: September 16, 2010 (Originally published December 20, 2008)
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