SafetyNET is an international automatic direct-printing satellite-based service for the promulgation of maritime safety information including navigational warnings and meteorological information and other urgent safety-related messages to ships, as well as search and rescue related information, and fulfils an integral role in the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS).
This edition of the Manual, renamed the International SafetyNET Services Manual, incorporates changes introduced to the Inmarsat satellite network and services including the Inmarsat Fleet Safety service, which has been recognized as a mobile satellite service for use in the GMDSS by adoption of resolution MSC.450(99).
Foreword
1 General information
2 SafetyNET services
3 General features of the Inmarsat EGC system
4 Planning of new SafetyNET EGC services
5 Changes to existing SafetyNET services
6 Operation of International SafetyNET Services
7 Promulgation of MSI- or SAR-related information
8 Message formatting and C codes for SafetyNET
9 Monitoring of MSI- and SAR-related broadcasts
10 Accessing SafetyNET services
11 Land earth station functions
12 Receiving SafetyNET services broadcasts
13 Charges for SafetyNET services
Annex 1 The Inmarsat system
Annex 2 Operational guidance for SafetyNET services
Part A Navigational warning services
Part B Meteorological services
Part C Search and rescue services and SAR coordination traffic
Part D Piracy countermeasures broadcast messages
Part E Repetition codes (C4)
Annex 3 Enhanced group call receiver specifications – Inmarsat C and mini-C
Annex 4 Operational guidance for SafetyNET II and RescueNET
Annex 5 Enhanced group call receiver specifications – Fleet Safety
Annex 6 Procedure for amending the International SafetyNET Services Manual
Related information
IMO Enhanced Group Call Coordinating Panel (MSC.1/Circ.1635)
Annex 1 IMO Enhanced Group Call Coordinating Panel
Annex 2 Authorization, certification and registration
of enhanced group call information providers
Annex 3 Procedure for amendment
- Number of Pages:
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- Published Date:
- March 2022
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