Planes and ships carry a distress radiobeacon that transmits a distress call in a band centered around 406 MHz. Though the COSPAS-SARSAT system has been mostly superseded by GPS, ...

Many think "SOS" stands for "save our souls" or "save our ship," but it actually doesn't stand for anything. SOS is a Morse Code distress signal. Morse Code is a system that uses dots, dashes and ...

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) said on Saturday, watchstanders received the boaters' distress call, stating their 28-foot vessel was sinking 36 miles off the coast of Boca Grande.

A Beriyev-200 amphibious jet of the EMERCOM and two helicopters are getting ready at an airbase for a mission to the distress area ...