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emergency position-indicating radio beacon
- Definição1
- A device, usually carried on board maritime craft, that transmits a distress signal that alerts search and rescue authorities and enables rescue units to locate the scene of the distress.
- Fonte1
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Manual. Volume II: Mission Co-ordination. Montreal, 2013. (Doc. 9731)
- Fonte2
- BRASIL. Comando da Aeronáutica. Departamento de Controle do Espaço Aéreo. CIRCEA 64-1: busca e salvamento - glossário de termos de busca e salvamento aeronáutico. Rio de Janeiro, 2011. Disponível em: http://publicacoes.decea.gov.br/?i=publicacao&id=3649. Acesso em: 15 maio 2014.
- Nota Adicional1
- Acronym in English: EPIRB.
- Nota Adicional2
- Information regarding this term is a result of researches developed by DECEA in cooperation with ANAC.
- Subárea
- Search and Rescue
- Français
- radiobalise de localisation des sinistres