Talk:Global Maritime Distress Safety System

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[edit] Lives Saved

Since the implimentation of GMDSS has the number of lives safed increased because there are more people?

Have the lives rescued since implimentation been in heavily populated areas? If so, GMDSS was not neccessary.

The oldest safety maxim says that there is safety in numbers. Radio technology has improved; but GMDSS is there instead of a professional communicator/electronics tech. ledge

Those qualified to use GMDSS are "professional communicators", and as you say, Radio tech. has improved, into GMDSS, not as well as GMDSS. Sea Areas are not "Heavily Populated", and even so, some form of communication is req'd from vessels/persons in distress. Condeh 00:25, 29 September 2006 (UTC)