Each team was required to carry an EPIRB Distress radiobeacon, a satellite phone and a 3G mobile telephone (in a sealed envelope).
Distress and Coma | respiratory distress syndrome | Infant respiratory distress syndrome | Distress radiobeacon | Subjective units of distress scale | Mayday (distress signal) | Intentional infliction of emotional distress | Fetal distress | Distress signal | damsels in distress |
Chang Chia-juch, the Taiwanese Vice Minister of Transportation and Communications, said that two Cathay Pacific aircraft in the area received B-18255's emergency location-indicator signals.
The vessel's EPIRB emergency beacon went off around 8:00am AST (UTC-9), at the beginning of the 2005 opilio crab hunting season.