🔍 Key Concepts

• MAYDAY distress format (what elements it normally includes) • The difference between helpful and absolutely critical information in an emergency call • How rescuers actually locate you at sea

💭 Think About

• If a rescue aircraft or vessel heard only ONE piece of information from your call before you lost power, which of these choices would most directly allow them to start searching in the right place? • Think about which item, if wrong or missing, would make it almost impossible for rescuers to find you, even if they knew everything else about your situation. • Which option is directly tied to search and rescue planning, rather than just identifying who you are or what is happening?

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify which choice would let rescuers plot a point on a chart immediately. • Consider which information could be guessed or learned later versus which cannot be inferred without you transmitting it. • Ask: with this single piece of information, could a rescue unit reasonably begin a search pattern?