🔍 Key Concepts

• Distress, urgency, and safety priority levels in marine VHF communications • The specific proword used for navigational safety information (e.g., hazards, aids to navigation, weather) • How the Coast Guard broadcasts non-distress safety information to all mariners

💭 Think About

• Is an aid to navigation off station an immediate life-threatening emergency, or primarily a safety/navigation hazard that mariners must be warned about? • Which radiotelephone proword is normally used to start messages about general safety of navigation or important weather information to all ships? • Which prowords are reserved for distress (immediate danger) versus urgency, and which one is for safety messages?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify which word is associated with distress (grave and imminent danger) and eliminate that choice for this question • Verify which word is associated with urgency calls that are not yet life-threatening and see if it fits an ‘off-station aid’ report • Identify the standard proword for safety of navigation and weather information broadcasts used by the Coast Guard