In all situations, VHF radio is the most efficient means of communication.
If you are planning to use a cellphone as your only means of communication, consider the advantages VHF has over your cellphone:
- Better coverage and fewer shadow areas
- Collective safety with both shore stations and other boats listening. If you are in distress you want everyone possible to know
- Batteries in a VHF are longer lasting
- There is no need to remember phone numbers
- You are not relying on just one person to pass on the message.
These advantages work for everyone if all vessels keep a constant listening watch on Channel 16, the international distress channel.
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