Guidance

Life saving signals

For use by ships, aircraft of persons in distress when communicating with rescue units.

Documents

Life saving signals 2021

Details

Includes pictures and descriptive information on the different type of signals you can use when in distress at sea.

Updates to this page

Published 1 January 2003
Last updated 23 November 2021 + show all updates
  1. new leaflet uploaded

  2. Typing error corrected in 2018 version.

  3. Typo by GDS

  4. First published.

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