Emergency vessel location system

Apparatus adapted to be placed on board a vessel or vehicle so as to be easily usable in an emergency situation by persons on said vessel or vehicle to signal its geographical coordinates by automatically signalling by a modulation of an RF signal with a human voice the position of said vessel or vehicle comprising:

• a navigation unit adapted to be used on said vessel or vehicle and having as an output at least two geographical coordinates of said vessel or vehicle;
• means connected to said navigation unit including easily identified emergency switch means which overrides all except necessary emergency location operations of said navigation unit for activation of said navigation unit to generate said coordinates;
• means including a speech synthesizer for converting said generated coordinates into an electromagnetic signal representative of human speech;
• and,
• means including an RF transmitter for broadcasting an electromagnetic signal modulated by said signal representative of human speech, said broadcast signal adapted to be received by conventional remotely located receiving means having voice demodulation means and means for reproducing human speech, such that the coordinates of said vessel or vehicle are broadcast by human voice on an modulated RF signal from said vessel or vehicle in a manner intelligible by human beings at said remotely located receiving means, whereby said navigation unit is transferred to an emergency mode by actuation by an individual on the vessel or vehicle on which it is carried, whereby the emergency function can be activated by persons not knowledgeable in the operation or function of either the navigation unit or the speech synthesizing or speech transmission means.

Apparatus adapted to be placed on board a vessel or vehicle so as to be easily usable in an emergency situation by persons on said vessel or vehicle to signal its geographical coordinates by automatically signalling by a modulation of an RF signal with a human voice the position of said vessel or vehicle comprising:

• a navigation unit adapted to be used on said vessel or vehicle and having as an output at least two geographical coordinates of said vessel or vehicle;
• means for activating said navigational unit to generate said coordinates;
• means including a speech synthesizer for converting said generated coordinates into an electromagnetic signal representative of human speech;
• and,
• means including an RF transmitter for broadcasting an electromagnetic signal modulated by said signal representative of human speech, said broadcast signal adapted to be received by conventional remotely located receiving means having voice demodulation means and means for reproducing human speech, such that the coordinates of said vessel or vehicle are broadcast by human voice on a modulated RF signal from said vessel or vehicle in a manner intelligible by human beings at said remotely located receiving means.

Apparatus usable at a first location to signal the geographical coordinates of said first location by automatically signalling by a modulation of an RF signal with a human voice the position of said first location comprising:

• a navigation unit adapted to be used at said first location and having as an output at least two geographical coordinates of said first location;
• means for activating said navigation unit to generate said coordinates;
• means including a speech synthesizer for converting said generated coorcinates into an electromagnetic signal representative of human speech;
• and,
• means including an RF transmitter for broadcasting an electromagnetic signal modulated by said signal representative of human speech, said broadcast signal adapted to be received by conventional remotely located receiving means having voice demodulation means and means for reproducing human speech, such that the coordinates of said first location are broadcast by human voice on a modulated RF signal from said first location in a manner intelligible by human beings at said remotely located receiving means.