Patent ID: 9330554
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: B63C,G08B

Claim Text:
1. An alert and maritime rescue system for a shipwrecked person, designed to be incorporated in the life jacket or suit of the crew member of a vessel, and which comprises actuation means connected to a control unit that activates a GPS (Global Positioning System) location device in order to obtain an exact location of the shipwrecked person that wears said life jacket or suit, and a radio beacon adapted to emit a distress signal by radiofrequency, the system comprising: both devices, DSC and AIS, being connected to the GPS device and to the control unit, in order to adapt, through the control unit, the DSC to make emergency calls exclusively to vessels, in the event of a man overboard (MOB) situation, not generating MAYDAY RELAY calls, and allowing the AIS reading and recording of MMSI data of nearby vessels, as well as the monitoring of the MOB situation and DSC and AIS devices having data and voice emission and reception capacity.