Vessel emergency codes
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vessel-emergency-codes-167-5956044
title:
Vessel emergency codes
text:
In addition to distress signals like Mayday and pan-pan, most vessels, especially passenger ships, use some emergency signals to alert the crew on board. In some cases, the signals may alert the passengers to danger, but, in others, the objective is to conceal the emergency from unaffected passengers so as to avoid panic or undue alarm. Signals can be in the form of blasts on alarm bells, sounds on the ship's whistle or code names paged over the PA system.
- Alpha, alpha, alpha is the code for
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Coded messages used over public address systems on passenger ships
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vessel_emergency_codes
date created:
2005-03-09T00:20:55Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T08:06:56Z
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