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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 30 > New device to speed ocean rescues

New device to speed ocean rescues

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
May 30, 2008

ASTORIA — A new communications system to refine search and rescue operations goes online next week to replace the aging National Distress Response System.

The new system, Rescue 21, still relies on towers, but new direction-finding equipment locks in radio signals, allowing search....

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