INMARSAT SAFETY TRAINING HUB

Welcome to the home of Inmarsat Safety Training. Here you’ll find everything you need to learn about our leading safety services, from our connectivity solutions, relied upon by millions of seafarers, to our shore-side services trusted by global Rescue Coordination Centres and Search & Rescue teams across the globe.

We’ve been living and breathing maritime safety for over 40 years. Set up by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in 1979, our mission has been, and always will be, to maintain the highest levels of safety at sea.

GMDSS made easy

GMDSS

The GMDSS is an international safety system, which uses satellite and terrestrial technology and ship-board radio systems to prevent accidents from happening and to alert the rescue authorities and nearby vessels quickly in an emergency.

This training section will provide you with an overview of the Inmarsat GMDSS services, process and what happens during a Distress Alert and the associated regulatory requirements.

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Vessel safety services

Fleet Safety

Fleet Safety marks a turning point in maritime safety and moderniston of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS), bringing significant improvements to the safety of tens of thousands of FleetBroadband and Fleet One users.

This training section will provide you with a Fleet Safety overview and an interactive dive into each function setup and how the system works over the satellite network.

Inmarsat C

Saving lives at sea since 1999 and guaranteed for reliability and built to last, Inmarsat C and Mini C is a two-way store and forward communication system transmitting messages from ship-to-shore, shore-to-ship and ship-to-ship.

This training section will provide you with an Inmarsat C overview, system operation, and the different terminals types.

FleetBroadband

FleetBroadband was the world’s first maritime network that gave mariners access to reliable and simultaneous voice and data communications at sea with 99.9% global network availability.

This training section will give you an overview of FleetBroadband and Fleet One, how they offer non-GMDSS safety services, what they can be used for, and how to enable GMDSS safety.

Shore side services

RescueNET

We are proud to support Maritime Search and Rescue teams and coordination centres with fast, clear and reliable vessel safety communications.

The RescueNET training section explains what the system does, and the interactive training platform allows you to take on the responsibility of a rescue centre and learn how to receive Distress Alerts, Distress Messages and react by using our extensive databases and coordination communications.

SafetyNET

The only preventative side of the GMDSS for satellite communications is the vital broadcast of Maritime Safety Information (MSI). These broadcasts of navigational, meteorological and Search and Rescue warnings and alerts, ensure seafarers around the world are kept up to date with dangers that could turn into a distress.

Enabling the international broadcast and automatic reception of Maritime Safety Information (MSI) and Search and Rescue related information via the Inmarsat Enhanced Group Calling system.

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SafetyNET II

SafetyNET II is an enhancement to the current SafetyNET system, that provides a user-friendly, interactive web interface for Maritime Safety Information Providers to create MSI messages and deliver them simultaneously over multiple Inmarsat networks, including Inmarsat C, Mini C and Fleet Safety.

Discover the difference between SafetyNET and SafetyNET II, and view each function made available to the Maritime Safety Information Provider and how messages are processed and broadcast.

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SAR API

Around the world, MRCC capabilities are growing as they develop more sophisticated systems to integrate Search and Rescue technologies. To support these advancements, we enabled the IMO EGC recommended API* to be connected to the RescueNET system, which enables MRCC RescueNET users to create a standardised API and format to simultaneously broadcast Distress Alert Relays and SAR coordination over any recognised mobile satellite service provider, and comply with the IMO EGC standards.
This step-by-step training session will guide you through how to create and test an API connection, in a safe purpose-built replica Inmarsat network, before you implement your API RescueNET connection into the live satellite environment.

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* a single API standard (REST JSON) and format (Inmarsat-C Codes)

MSI API

Many NAVAREA and METAREA Coordinators are now facing the problem of sending EGC broadcasts over multiple satellite service providers, increasing the amount of work and introducing points of failure. To Support, we enabled the IMO EGC recommended API* to be connected to the SafetNET II system, enabling any NAV/METAREA Coordinator to develop a standardised API connection, to overcome the difficulty of interoperability, and simultaneously send one Maritime Safety Information (MSI) to multiple providers, in the same format.
This step-by-step training session will guide you through how to create and test an API connection, in a safe purpose-built replica Inmarsat network, before you implement your SafetyNET II connection into the live satellite environment.