The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has approved a multi-year commitment with RFD Australia to purchase over 500 EPIRBs manufactured by U.S.-based ACR Electronics, Inc. RFD, a world ...

Gerry Angeli, head of ACR Electronics, with a marine emergency beacon (EPIRB) that survived a fire but still is working. JOSEPH A. MANN JR. SPECIAL TO THE MIAMI HERALD When Gerry Angeli, president and ...

ACR Electronics and Ocean Signal announced the development of next generation EPIRBs. Introducing integrated AIS (Automatic Identification System) within their EPIRBs for the first time in conjunction ...

Registering beacons, like this EPIRB, makes it more effective and thus makes your crew safer. Courtesy ACR Bill and Michelle Doster's journey around the Great Loop aboard their Carver Yacht, Fluidity, ...

Signaling devices, electronic and otherwise, prove critical to summon assistance in an emergency. And it is a good idea to keep them all together in a ditch bag you can grab quickly. ACR makes the ...

ACR Electronics celebrates its 50th anniversary this year thanks to its enterprise, its ingenuity and its unwavering commitment to quality. Best-known for its marine safety gear, especially its ...

Personal locator beacons (PLBs) and emergency position-indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs) are tools that most boaters hope they will never have to use, but they can literally save your life. Able to ...

When the Apollo 13 astronauts lost power after an oxygen tank exploded about 200,000 miles from Earth in 1970, they used specialized, spark-free flashlights produced by a Fort Lauderdale company as ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ — Cobham Life Support-ACR Products today announced the launch of a new subscription-based satellite self test service, 406Link.com, now available to current ...