When you are sailing as a professional or as an amateur, on leisure crafts such as speedboats, yachts or sailing boats and find you are in a distress or an emergency situation such as your boat capsizing or sinking, GMDSS courses will provide you with the basic knowledge to use the different equipment on board the boat to enable you to communicate with others in emergency situations.
With SRC course you will be able to operate VHF radio, NAVTEX receiver, SART and EPIRB. With LRC course you will be able to also operate MF/HF radio and Inmarsat C communication equipment.
With online GMDSS courses which include a VHF radio simulator, an MF/HF radio simulator, a NAVTEX receiver simulator, an Inmarsat C simulator and quizzes that are available ONLINE for FREE, you can practice to prepare for the Short Range Certificate (SRC) or Long Range Certificate (LRC) License or simply practice before you go to sea.
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