Thread: PLB EPIRB Distress Beacon - A few highly recommended MUST Do’s. To Be Repeated Again

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

and when you loose one..derigister it so good folks dont get called out of bed at 05;00 and helicoptor dispatched into the middle of back country in shitty weather to look for you..TEN YEARS after you lost it because it has self activated!!!!!!!!!

I think what you mean is contact maritime rescue and have them flag the beacons hexadecimal serial number and rough location as lost in their records.

Registration has no bearing on actioning a SAR response, the term is often poorly understood by many users.