Manually relaying a distress call

A distress relay should only be sent if: the person or vehicle in distress is unable to transmit the distress call itself, for example red flares sighted at night or the person or vehicle in distress is out of range of a CRS and you have already acknowledged the distress by voice message. You can also relay a received distress relay alert manually if it goes unanswered.
  1. Switch to channel 16
  2. Slowly and clearly speak the details of the distress:

    MAYDAY RELAY, MAYDAY RELAY, MAYDAY RELAY

    This is <MMSI of your vessel, name of your vessel repeated 3 times and your call sign>

    Received the following MAYDAY from <MMSI of vessel in distress, name of vessel in distress, call sign of vessel in distress>

    Message begins

    Message received from vessel in distress or details of the distress

    Message ends

    OVER