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¿Qué es el Sistema de Identificación Automática (AIS)?:What is the Automatic Identification System (AIS)?

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Correct answer: a) A system that continuously sends the ship’s identity, position, course and speed, sharing data with ships and coast stations for safety.

Why it is correct

AIS continuously sends identity, position, course and speed, and receives others’.

Why the others are not

  • b) That is GNSS.
  • c) Not that.
  • d) That is EPIRB.

How to work it out in the exam

  1. AIS: ship data, continuous.

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