Marine Order 21, issue 8
40Urgency signal
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40 Urgency signal
40.1 For subsection 229(1) of the Navigation Act, the urgency signal is the words ‘pan pan’.
Note The sending of an urgency signal will normally be preceded by a DSC urgency announcement or Inmarsat EGC message with safety priority.
40.2 A person may transmit the urgency signal and a following message only:
(a) when giving notice that the calling radio station has an urgent message to transmit about the safety of a ship, an aircraft, a vehicle or a person; and
(b) unless subsection 41.1 applies — on the distress frequency.
40.3 An urgency signal and urgency traffic has priority over all other radio communications except distress traffic.