PITTSBURGH, Nov. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to establish a new lighting system that is universally recognized as an urgent call for help," said an inventor, from Brampton, ON, Canada, "so I ...

“The advancement of Coast Guard missions to enhance maritime safety, protect the environment, and provide better electronic visual distress signal devices for recreational boaters that are safer to ...

LITTLE ROCK — For fear of getting a ticket, many boaters on lakes DeGray and Ouachita have purchased visual distress signals in the past couple of months. Evidently, this run on flares and flags ...

The United States Coast Guard (USGC) requires boaters to carry several unexpired visual distress signals on board, day and night. Pyrotechnic marine flares are a common type of distress signal, but ...

Morse code transmits information through sequences of dots, dashes, and spaces, allowing messages to travel long distances ...

Best known for its appearances in desert-island cartoons, maritime movies and earworms by ABBA and Rihanna, the word SOS has been used as a code for emergency distress signals since 1905. If you’re ...