Schedule 1 SATELLITE EPIRBS

capable of transmitting a distress alert either through the polar orbiting satellite service operating in the 406 MHz band which may be the float-free satellite EPIRB carried in accordance with the Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) (Amendment) Regulations 1991^f1 or, alternatively, in sea areas A1, A2 and A3 only, through the INMARSAT geostationary satellite service operating in the 1.6 GHz band;

installed in an easily accessible position;

ready to be manually released and capable of being carried by one person into a survival craft;

capable of floating free if the ship sinks and of being automatically activated when afloat; and

capable of being activated manually.