Question 1

A Sécurité call carries…

Accepted Answer

Safety information — navigational or meteorological warnings — Sécurité = safety message: the floating container, the unlit buoy, the tow restricting the fairway. Announced on 16, usually passed on a working channel.

Question 2

For urgent medical ADVICE by radio you call…

Accepted Answer

“PAN-PAN MEDICO” — Pan-Pan Medico links you through the Coastguard to a doctor. If the situation is grave and imminent — evacuation needed — it escalates to a Mayday.

Question 3

Engine failure, drifting slowly towards a shipping lane, no immediate danger to life. You transmit…

Accepted Answer

PAN PAN — PAN PAN is the urgency call: assistance needed, but no grave and imminent danger — yet.

Question 4

DSC can send more than distress alerts. An URGENCY announcement via DSC…

Accepted Answer

Alerts all stations digitally, then you transmit the PAN-PAN call by voice on Ch 16 — DSC categories include urgency and safety: the digital alert rings everyone, the voice message carries the content. Same pattern as distress — alert, then talk.

Question 5

A SAFETY (Sécurité) DSC announcement is typically used for…

Accepted Answer

Navigational warnings — a drifting container, a large vessel manoeuvring — Safety priority = information that protects others. Announce on DSC/Ch 16, pass the message on a working channel.

Pan-Pan, Sécurité and the doctor

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