Mobilarm Wins At Seatrade Asia Awards 2010
The innovative new Mobilarm V100 VHF PLB, which uses VHF DSC and GPS to provide automatic man overboard (MOB) alerting and location has won the prestigious Safety Award at the Seatrade Asia Awards 2010. The award reflects Mobilarm‘s long-established position at the forefront of marine safety technology and joins the Safety at Sea Award from the 2005 Seatrade Awards for their crew monitoring alarm system.
“We’re delighted to have won a second Seatrade Award, especially as it recognises the continued acceptance of our VHF PLB technology within the maritime industry”, commented Lindsay Lyon (r), Mobilarm CEO, who was at the gala dinner on Monday night to receive the award. “Competition for the safety category at the Seatrade Awards is always very tough, but Mobilarm has a great track record in bringing innovation to market in order to improve safety for the maritime industry, which sets the Mobilarm V100 apart as a game changing product that really can help to save lives at sea.”
The Mobilarm V100 is an extremely versatile Maritime Survivor Locating Device. The pocket-sized unit is attached to clothing or lifejackets and is automatically water-activated when the wearer has gone overboard, sending out a man overboard distress message and real time GPS coordinates of the casualty’s current position via VHF DSC and in a synthesized voice on channel 16. Since the probability of survival during an MOB event is directly related to the length of time in the water, alerting the crew aboard the parent vessel and other vessels in the vicinity will bring about a quick and effective rescue, therefore increasing chances of survival.