14.5 Functional requirements
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14.5 Functional requirements

  Every craft, while at sea, shall be capable:

  • .1 except as provided in 14.8.1.1 and 14.10.1.4.3, of transmitting ship-to-shore distress alerts by at least two separate and independent means, each using a different radiocommunication service;

  • .2 of receiving shore-to-ship distress alerts;

  • .3 of transmitting and receiving ship-to-ship distress alerts;

  • .4 of transmitting and receiving search and rescue co-ordinating communications;

  • .5 of transmitting and receiving on-scene communications;

  • .6 of transmitting and, as required by 13.5, receiving signals for locating;footnote

  • .7 of transmitting and receivingfootnote maritime safety information;

  • .8 of transmitting and receiving general radiocommunications to and from shore-based radio systems or networks subject to 14.15.8; and

  • .9 of transmitting and receiving bridge-to-bridge communications.

Parent topic: Chapter 14 - Radiocommunications
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