McMurdo Safety Equipment

Leisure marine EPIRBs, PLBs and SARTs

Whether coastal cruising, offshore sailing or jet-skiing, the ability to alert the search and rescue authorities, should you find yourself in difficulty, is vitally important. McMurdo produce a range of products specifically designed to get assistance to you in the shortest possible time. For jet-skiers, yacht crews, shorthanded sailors and watersports enthusiasts we have developed the Fastfind Personal Locator Beacon.

For yachts, powerboats and RIBs we have the new Smartfind range of EPIRBs, available with either a manual bracket or a float free automatic housing. A good source of weather information is also an important part of safety afloat. McMurdo offers a range of NAVTEX receivers that will display weather and shipping information either on a clear mono screen with the NAV6 or in colour with large font options with the new NAV-7.

EPIRBs Emergency Position Indicating Rescue Beacons

Whether pottering about in coastal waters or cruising offshore the EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon) should be considered a vital part of your vessels safety inventory. The Smartfind EPIRB operates on the 406Mhz global satellite rescue system ensuring that your emergency signal can be sent from anywhere in the world.

The Smartfind Plus EPIRB benefits from a dedicated built in GPS sending a highly accurate location position typically +/- 50metres within a few minutes of switching the unit on. This enables the rescue authorities to greatly reduce their search time. It can be purchased with one of two mounting options, the Carry Safe Manual Bracket or the Auto Float Free Housing.

PLBs Personal Location Beacon

The Fastfind range of Personal Location Beacons has all the benefits of the 406MHz EPIRB except that they are registered to an individual as opposed to a vessel. They operate on the 406Mhz global satellite rescue system ensuring that your emergency signal can be sent from anywhere in the world. They also transmit a 121.5MHz homing signal and the Fastfind Plus version benefits from a dedicated built in GPS sending a highly accurate location position typically +/- 50metres within a few minutes of switching the unit on.

This enables the rescue authorities to greatly reduce their search time. There is also a -40°C battery option for colder climates. The Fastfind is of particular benefit if you are moving from boat to boat or having to work on deck in adverse weather conditions. It is compact and comes complete with a pouch and lanyard ensuring that you can safely move around without fear of losing the unit

SARTs Search And Rescue Transponder

The SART (Search And Rescue Transponder) is designed to assist in the rescue and recovery of liferafts and survival craft. The SART is normally stowed in the liferaft ready for any emergency. Once the unit is turned on it sits in standby, conserving power until it is automatically activated by the signal sweep of an X-band Radar of a passing vessel. The radar will then instantly display a straight line of 12 dots on the radar screen. Identifying to the ships crew that there is a survival craft within 100metres of the last dot.

Grab Bags

McMurdo Safety Equipment also offers a range of Grab Bags designed to meet the needs of recreational boaters. Whether coastal cruising in a 25foot powerboat or bluewater sailing in a 40 foot cruising yacht, we have an emergency grab bag to suit. McMurdo Grab Bags are waterproof, buoyant and made of a high visibility material. The Grab Bag XL also includes an external EPIRB pocket and flare storage compartment.

NAVTEX

Weather and shipping information are key to an enjoyable and safe time on the water. McMurdo Safet Equipment's range of NAVTEX receivers are designed to be easy to operate and have large clear screens.

Options within the NAV6 range enable instrument data to also be displayed on the screen making it ideal for navigation stations where space for multiple instruments is limited. The professional standard NAV-7 represents the cutting edge in NAVTEX technology.

The high bright colour screen, large font option and massage sorting functions all add to make this one of the best NAVTEX receivers available.