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What precautions should be taken when viewing an incoming DSC Distress alert message?

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What precautions should be taken when viewing an incoming DSC Distress alert message?

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• DSC Distress alert procedures in GMDSS • Who is allowed to acknowledge a DSC Distress and on what frequencies/areas • Risks of sending an unwanted DSC acknowledgement or relay from a ship station

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• When you first receive a DSC distress alert, what is your primary responsibility: to transmit something, or to monitor and gather information? • Which type of acknowledgement to a DSC distress is normally handled by a coast station, and what happens if a ship acknowledges incorrectly? • Among the options, which action could accidentally interfere with proper distress handling or confuse other vessels and shore stations?

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• Verify who normally sends the initial DSC distress acknowledgement in GMDSS (coast station vs. ship station). • Check whether ship stations should manually acknowledge a DSC distress on the same frequency if a coast station is likely in range. • Confirm that any action you take should not generate an unintended DSC distress acknowledgement or relay while you are only trying to view/read the message.

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What precautions should be taken when viewing an incoming DSC Distress alert message?

Be careful not to activate a DSC acknowledgement or relay .

If the message is not clear make a DSC call to all ships requesting clarification.

No precautions are necessary -- the unit will auto-acknowledge an incoming DSC Distress alert.

If there are errors in the call the unit didn't auto-acknowledge via DSC and the watch officer must do so instead.

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What precautions should be taken when viewing an incoming DSC Distress alert message?

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