What does urgency signal mean:
Urgency signal PAN – PAN indicates that a very important message is to follow concerning the safety of a ship, aircraft or other vechile or the safety of a person.
Urgency Alert :-
In GMDSS urgency indicates that a very important message is to follow concerning the safety of ship, aircraft or other vechile or the safety of a person. Urgency call may be address to All Stations or to an Individual Station.
Example :
PAN PAN (x3)
All stations (x3) or Name of the station (x3)
This is
Name (x3)/ call sign/ MMSI of the station send message.
PAN PAN
This is
Ship’s Name / Call sign/ MMSI
position
Nature of urgency
Require of Tug/ Tow/ Medical advise
Master
Name of ship
Date/ Time (UTC)
Over
Note:- Time in UTC
Urgency communication has highest priority except distress
A station which receives the urgency alert/ signal which is not followed by the urgency message shall:-
Man Overboard is a distress situation. Even the RT message will be Distress message . Information given that RT message will be Urgency is absolutely wrong. Students following this in GOC examination will fail. Request you to correct this. You may consult ITU manual for maritime mobile & maritime mobile satellite services.
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