🔍 Key Concepts

• Distress vs. Urgency vs. Safety priorities in maritime communications (MAYDAY / PAN-PAN / SECURITÉ) • Whether life is in immediate danger or just potential/ developing danger • Whether the situation affects just your vessel or is navigational safety information for others

💭 Think About

• For each choice, ask: Is there an immediate threat to life right now, or is this mainly about warning others or reporting pollution? • Decide which situations are clearly distress rather than urgency, and which are more about safety/navigational warnings than about a specific vessel’s urgent problem. • Think about what kind of message you would send on VHF: MAYDAY, PAN-PAN, or SECURITÉ for each scenario.

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify which priority is used for immediate danger to life or vessel (this is not Urgency). • Verify which priority is used for navigational or meteorological warnings to all ships in an area. • Verify which priority is appropriate for serious but not immediately life‑threatening situations affecting a particular vessel.