Sean Friday and his team today installed MOB Guardian.

MOB Guardian is superb. Designed initially for fishermen, especially those single-handing, but it is ideal for a trip such as this because it allows me to carry a tag which "talks" to a base unit on the boat. If I fall overboard then the communication link is broken and the base unit then sends a signal to the control room in Poole raising the alarm and reporting my position - all automatically. It is done via the Iridium satellite so it does not rely on the boat being in mobile phone range of land.

Here are a couple of photos of the fit...

This first one is of the two antenna... the left one is the GPS and the right is the Iridium.

This second one shows the temporary cable routing to the gland. In a permanent installation this would not use cable tie clip but it is being removed after the trip so a temporary installation was necessary.

This is the base station. The tags, or Personal Safety Devices (PSDs) are on the right. I have 2 but a permanent install can have up to 4. These PSDs "talk" to the base station and have an indicator that shows it is being heard. If the device is immersed in water or gets too far away from the base station then the alarm is sent via satellite. There is an emergency button on the PSD too in case I fall and become incapacitated.

I am delighted to be part of this roll-out of MOB Guardian and if anyone, fishermen in particular, would like to see the system installation on my boat when I visit a port near you then please either get in touch with Sean Friday via the RNLI or with me via this site. You would be very welcome and I would be delighted to show you and have a chat about how it is used etc.

Read more about MOB Guardian here