An EPIRB (emergency position-indicating radio beacon) is your lifeline to rescue. A bad day can get worse if that beacon burns or gets trapped inside your sinking or overturned boat. You might also ...

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THE drowning of a young father off the Perth coast has prompted the government to introduce new laws making emergency beacons mandatory on boats. An inquest into the death of Ricardo Madeira da Silva, ...

Every year the Coast Guard makes thousands of phone calls to mariners, boat owners and emergency points of contact in response to receiving distress alerts from emergency position indicating radio ...

Two fishermen have been rescued from a remote beach on the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin, after their boat caught fire and sank. The men had anchored their nine-metre cruiser and set out in an ...

The drowning of a young father off the Perth coast has prompted the government to introduce new laws making emergency beacons mandatory on boats. Any boat that travels more than two nautical miles off ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Any boat that travels more than two nautical miles off the Perth coast will have to carry an emergency beacon by law next year, ...