Dan
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That number 972696005 decodes as follows:
Man overboard DSC and/or AIS devices (972yyzzzz)
yy = 69 = (presumably Icarus Aviation Limited)
ZZZZ = 6006 = sequence number chosen by the manufacturer, in your case the numbers appended to your S/N.
It is a number that functions under the MMSI system, but is not actually an MMSI as they were originally intended to be used, because there are too many.
My MMSI for my Gen 1 is 338131687, which decodes to:
338 = US (intended to be for a ship)
131687 = no meaning other than this is me
So you have a unique identifier that allows you to be searched for and hopefully found!...
That’s another reason I didn’t get the old Nautilus Lifeline with radio. It doesn’t send alert to AIS.
I’d give the LOB’s captain my MRG’s MMSI, prior to go on a diving trip with the LOB. Later on during one of those high voltage current dive, I get blown away and don’t see any skiff at the surface, I could just launch the MRG’s SOS. The boat AIS would receive an SOS from MMSI 972-69-6005. The captain will then know that there is a Man-Over-Board (972) and that person is me (6005).
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