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Originally Posted by newbieincali
How many times has an emergency actually been used?
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I've found 3 articles through google,where they reference 3 seperate rescues attributed to the watch,regarding aviation mishaps and many write-ups pertaining to rescues of fishermen,hikers,explorers etc..
The Emergency and Emergency Mission models are discontinued by Breitling, but not obsolete. There are many threads on this, and a lot of information on 121.5MHz monitoring on the web,
but the only change is that there is no longer satellite monitoring of the 121.5MHz frequency, a largely irrelevant fact for Emergency owners because unless
the situation is perfect the signal wouldn't be strong enough to be monitored by satellites anyway.
Aircraft and rescue services continue to monitor 121.5 so the watch is just as useful as the day that it was launched.
In terms of a new version, there is a 406MHz version coming, but no confirmation of when - maybe this year, at this point I suspect that 2014 is more likely.
However, you could argue that even then 121.5 is more useful in a real emergency as it is easier to pinpoint the source of the signal with 121.5than with 406.