🔍 Key Concepts

• Marine Safety Information (MSI) within the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) • Difference between distress alerting equipment and information broadcast equipment • Which equipment is specifically designed for navigational and meteorological warnings and forecasts

💭 Think About

• Ask yourself: Which of these systems is designed to AUTOMATICALLY receive navigational warnings, weather warnings, and safety-related messages for a defined sea area? • Which options are primarily used for distress alerting or locating survivors, rather than routine safety information broadcasts? • Within GMDSS, which piece of equipment is associated with SafetyNET and which with coastal text broadcasts on MF? How does that relate to the word primary in the question?

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify which option is a search-and-rescue locating device rather than an MSI receiver. • Identify which option is primarily a distress alert transmitter rather than for receiving routine safety information. • Identify which option is specifically defined in GMDSS as the standard receiver for MSI broadcasts in coastal waters.