Marine Safety Equipment - Safety Call

Safety Call

The Safety Call should be used if you wish to broadcast an important navigational warning to other stations.

An example of when the Safety Call should be used is if you have sighted a large floating object that could damage the hull of a vessel.

However, a Safety Call is more likely to be made by a coast station or a limited coast station operated by a marine rescue association. A Safety Call may include important weather warnings such as severe thunderstorm or gale warnings.

The Safety Call is

• say cure-e-tay say cure-e-tay say cure-e-tay
• Hello all stations Hello all stations Hello all stations
• ‘This is (name & radio call sign of vessel or shore station)’ spoken 3 times
• announce change to working frequency and change channels
• say cure-e-tay say cure-e-tay say cure-e-tay
• Hello all stations (spoken once)
• ‘This is (name & radio call sign)’ spoken once
• details of the warning

You may make the initial Safety Call to all stations on a Distress Frequency.

Distress frequencies

• MF/HF Transceivers , 4125, 6215, 8291 kHz
• VHF Transceivers Channel 16, with Channel 67 as a supplementary
• 27 MHz Transceivers 27.88 MHz (Channel 88) with 27.86 MHz (Channel 86) as a supplementary.