Seamanship Question #32
 

Cellular phones generally cannot provide ship to ship
safety communications or communications with rescue
vessels. If you make a distress call on a cellular phone,
only the one party you call will be able to hear you.

Most cellular phones are designed for a land-based service.
Their coverage offshore is limited, and may change without
notice.

Locating a cellular caller is hard to do. If you don't know
precisely where you are, the Coast Guard will have difficulty
finding your location on the water.

In some areas the US Coast Guard has established a
three character code to dial to be immediately connected
to the local Coast Guard Operations Center.

What is that three character code? [1 pt]

Seamanship Question #32
 

666

Seamanship Question #32
 

Bart Senior wrote:
Cellular phones generally cannot provide ship to ship
safety communications or communications with rescue
vessels. If you make a distress call on a cellular phone,
only the one party you call will be able to hear you.

Most cellular phones are designed for a land-based service.
Their coverage offshore is limited, and may change without
notice.

Locating a cellular caller is hard to do. If you don't know
precisely where you are, the Coast Guard will have difficulty
finding your location on the water.

In some areas the US Coast Guard has established a
three character code to dial to be immediately connected
to the local Coast Guard Operations Center.

What is that three character code? [1 pt]


I don't know what the code is, but almost all cell phones now have a
gps chip in them for location...police use this tracking device to
find peple....

Seamanship Question #32
 

Joe wrote:
666

Lava lakes to you, Joe....

Seamanship Question #32
 

I believe it's *CG.. whatever that is...

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"Bart Senior" wrote in message
...
Cellular phones generally cannot provide ship to ship
safety communications or communications with rescue
vessels. If you make a distress call on a cellular phone,
only the one party you call will be able to hear you.

Most cellular phones are designed for a land-based service.
Their coverage offshore is limited, and may change without
notice.

Locating a cellular caller is hard to do. If you don't know
precisely where you are, the Coast Guard will have difficulty
finding your location on the water.

In some areas the US Coast Guard has established a
three character code to dial to be immediately connected
to the local Coast Guard Operations Center.

What is that three character code? [1 pt]

Seamanship Question #32
 

Dave wrote:

On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 22:35:14 -0500, "Bart Senior"
said:


Locating a cellular caller is hard to do. If you don't know
precisely where you are, the Coast Guard will have difficulty
finding your location on the water.

That seems strange since, from what I've read, the cellular companies can
locate each phone that's turned on pretty precisely.

It works pretty well in metropolitan areas where your phone can be
"seen" by three or more towers. Further away you may be in range of only
one tower and then the precision is pretty poor, "Well Mr. Coast Guard,
he's within a 15 mile radius of our tower at mile marker 122 on the
coast highway.".

Cheers
Marty

Seamanship Question #32
 

Correct. 1 point to you Jon.

"Capt. JG" wrote

I believe it's *CG.. whatever that is...

"Bart Senior" wrote

In some areas the US Coast Guard has established a
three character code to dial to be immediately connected
to the local Coast Guard Operations Center.

What is that three character code? [1 pt]