Thread: PLB's on sale at FCO

Good question about the batteries, Lusty and Blundell are the NZ agents listed on the Ocean signal website so I assume they can replace the batteries, I will have to check up on that. If I ever need to activate it I'll promise them a good story for advertising and see if they can cut a sharp deal. I bought the unit early July and the battery expiry date is November 2020 so it's more than 7 years life. By then I can only imagine what technical advances will have been made and this unit will be well and truly redundant, hopefully satellite phones will be more realistically priced.

The Ocean Signal comes with a foam/neoprene cover which floats, I also keep it in a plastic zip lock bag in a canvas pouch I wear on my belt. The zip lock bag keeps the dust and crud out of it and I figure if I'm too incapacitated to open that then there isn't much hope anyway.