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Voice Distress over FleetBroadband has won the “Safety at Sea” magazine's Systems Award for helping mariners in difficulties.
Executive Editor of “Safety at Sea” Paul Gunton commended Inmarsat's winning service, saying: “The judges felt that this was an important initiative, providing a simple and fool-proof distress alerting system that offered a significant enhancement to ensure that a distress message was sent and received as quickly as possible.”
Priority call access
It utilises FleetBroadband to provide priority call access – interrupting all non-distress calls as soon as the red distress button is pushed.
The emergency caller is then connected to an operator at one of three Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centres (MRCCs) strategically located around the globe.
Striving for safety
“Our voice distress service will enhance safety for any vessel where the option is fitted to its FleetBroadband terminals.”
Future plans
He added: “We are also working towards bringing the system to the International Maritime Organization so it can be established as a full part of the Global Maritime Distress Safety System.”
Chris Wortham, Manager of Maritime Safety Engineering; Frank Coles, President of Inmarsat Maritime; Peter Blackhurst, Head of Maritime Safety Services; and Vladimir Maksimov, Manager of Maritime Safety Operations were presented with the award on board HMS Belfast in London.
FleetBroadband: inmarsat.com/FleetBroadband