Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon.

Intended for search and rescue of ships and boats, this is a beacon that will float free of a sinking vessel, and broadcast a position report, preferably with GPS, to a worldwide cluster of monitoring satellites.