They were rescued after rebuilding a survival radio and using distress flares to signal for help.

While sending a distress signal, Duke learns that aliens are attacking Los Angeles and have mutated the LAPD.

* 1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.

* 1904 – The distress signal " CQD " is established only to be replaced two years later by " SOS ".

The most common distress signal is SOS or three dots, three dashes and three dots, internationally recognised by treaty.

* RMS Republic of 1903, the second White Star liner to bear the name, and the first ship ever to signal distress by wireless telegraphy, lost after colliding with the SS Florida

Additionally, a distress signal was sent by the pilots, causing two F-16s to race at supersonic speeds to intercept and escort the aircraft to O ' Hare International Airport.

* November 3 – SOS becomes an international distress signal.

* January 7 – The distress signal CQD is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by SOS.

* WALL-E, the 2008 Pixar film in which a distress signal is sent from Earth to all autopilots in 2110 saying that Earth's rising toxicity levels has made life unsustainable and that all the starliners should remain in space.

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A " rocket parachute flare or a hand flare showing a red light ... indicates distress and need of assistance " at sea is one type of a maritime distress signal.

In order to deposit an away-team on the planet Gravesworld while at the same time responding to a distress signal, the Enterprise would only drop out of Warp drive just long enough to energize the Transporter beam.

Proponents additionally claim that studies have shown that injured cells will emit a higher biophoton rate than normal cells and that organisms with illnesses will likewise emit a brighter light, which has been interpreted as implying a sort of distress signal.

However injured cells are under higher levels of oxidative stress, which ultimately is the source of the light, and whether this constitutes a " distress signal " or simply a background chemical process is yet to be demonstrated.

Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice procedure radio communications.

When manually activated, or automatically activated upon immersion, such beacons send out a distress signal.

The signals are monitored worldwide and the location of the distress is detected by non-geostationary satellites, and can be located by trilateration in combination with triangulation, respecting the varying quality of the signal received.

The world's first radio distress signal was transmitted by the East Goodwin lightvessel's radio operator on 17 March 1899, after the merchant vessel Elbe ran aground on the Goodwins, while on 30 April that year, the East Goodwin vessel transmitted a distress signal on its own behalf, when the SS R. F. Matthews rammed it in a dense fog.

However, in landline usage there was no general emergency signal, so the Marconi company added a " D " (" distress ") to CQ in order to create its distress call.

this brings a reaction of distress from Marina.

While in the hospital, someone stole Kemmerich's watch from him, causing him great distress, prompting him to ask about his watch every time his friends came to visit him in the hospital.

* Revised Code of Washington 9. 12. 010: " Every person who brings on his or her own behalf, or instigates, incites, or encourages another to bring, any false suit at law or in equity in any court of this state, with intent thereby to distress or harass a defendant in the suit, or who serves or sends any paper or document purporting to be or resembling a judicial process, that is not in fact a judicial process, is guilty of a misdemeanor ; and in case the person offending is an attorney, he or she may, in addition thereto be disbarred from practicing law within this state.

Baralong had been about from the scene, and had received a distress call from the ship.

When the X-Men receive a distress call from a Scottish island, they are surprised to find Juggernaut with nowhere to go, as the island was destroyed by his further-mutated partner in crime, Black Tom Cassidy, who died.

His son Franz suffered his entire life from an ( undiagnosed ) mental illness, his inferior intellect was a terrible disappointment to his father and this tragedy was a matter of distress to the mathematicians and students at Göttingen.

There are ongoing issues concerning the validity and reliability of the diagnostic categories ; the reliance on superficial symptoms ; the use of artificial dividing lines between categories and from ' normality '; possible cultural bias ; medicalization of human distress and financial conflicts of interest, including with the practice of psychiatrists and with the pharmaceutical industry ; political controversies about the inclusion or exclusion of diagnoses from the manual, in general or in regard to specific issues ; and the experience of those who are most directly affected by the manual by being diagnosed, including the consumer / survivor movement.

A major change from previous versions was the inclusion of a clinical significance criterion to almost half of all the categories, which required symptoms cause " clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning ".

For nearly half the disorders, symptoms must be sufficient to cause " clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning ", although DSM-IV-TR removed the distress criterion from tic disorders and several of the paraphilias.

Because an individual's degree of impairment is often not correlated with symptom counts, and can stem from various individual and social factors, the DSM's standard of distress or disability can often produce false positives.

Two psychologists associated with Christian colleges in the US have argued that it is not conclusive that homosexuality does not meet the DSM's criteria, based on their review of some of the research relating to claims of statistical infrequency, personal distress, maladaptiveness and deviation from social norms.

Responding to a frantic distress call from the overrun scientists, the Martian marine unit is quickly sent to Phobos to investigate, where the player character is left to guard the hangar with only a pistol while the rest of the group proceeds inside.

The Seatopians learn of Jet Jaguar's turn and thus send out a distress call to the Nebula M aliens ( from the previous film ) to send Gigan to assist them.

Satellites will be equipped with a transponder which will relay distress signals from the user's transmitter to the Rescue Co-ordination Centre, which will then initiate the rescue operation.

During seven or eight years he used his increasing favour with the elector to relieve the distress of the refugees from France, and especially from his native province of Béarn.

As William of Tyre put it, it was hoped that Manuel would be able " to relieve from his own abundance the distress under which our realm was suffering and to change our poverty into superabundance ".

Out of her distress and self-criticism, Cassatt decided that she needed to move away from genre paintings and onto more fashionable subjects, in order to attract portrait commissions from American socialites abroad, but that attempt bore little fruit at first.

Medical staff may aspirate the meconium from the nose and mouth of a newborn immediately after delivery in the event the baby shows signs of respiratory distress to decrease the risk of meconium aspiration syndrome.

People with slight distress from their phobias usually do not need prolonged exposure to their fear.

In 1900 the crew of the Russian coast defense ship General-Admiral Graf Apraksin as well as stranded Finnish fishermen were saved in the Gulf of Finland because of exchange of distress telegrams between two radiostations, located at Hogland island and inside a Russian naval base in Kotka.

Some suggest sending out a distress call on the submarine's short-range transmitter and abandoning and scuttling the ship.

By February 1904, the Marconi Wireless Company required all of its operators to use ' CQD ' for a ship in distress, or requiring URGENT assistance.

According to the story, at some point in or around June 1947 ( Gaddis and others list the approximate date as early February 1948 ), two American vessels navigating the Strait of Malacca, the City of Baltimore and the Silver Star, among others, picked up distress messages from Dutch merchant ship Ourang Medan.

Title II, " Broadcast Services ": Outlines the granting and licensing of broadcast spectrum by the government, including a provision to issue licenses to current television stations to commence digital television broadcasting, the use of the revenues generated by such licensing, the terms of broadcast licenses, the process of renewing broadcast licenses, direct broadcast satellite services, automated ship distress and safety systems, and restrictions on over-the-air reception devices

Automated ship distress and safety systems.

While on routine patrol of the Romulan neutral zone, the Enterprise intercepts a distress signal from the crew of a Garidian scout ship, seeking asylum in Federation space.

# Another Fine Mess .....: When responding to a distress call from a ship under attack by pirates, the Enterprise discovers none other than Harry Mudd is involved.

On August 4, 1635, a second writ of ship tax was issued, directed on this occasion, as in the revoked writ of 1628, to the sheriffs and justices of inland as well as of maritime counties and towns, demanding the sum of £ 208, 000, which was to be obtained by assessment on personal as well as real property, payment to be enforced by distress.

He is famed for remaining at his post, sending repeated distress calls, until the ship sank.

The test starts near the edge of the Klingon Neutral Zone, where the ship receives a distress signal from the Kobayashi Maru.

A distress signal indicates that a person or group of people, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle is threatened by grave and imminent danger and requests immediate assistance.

* Name of the vessel or ship in distress

Early in the game, the crew encounters an Old Empire starship adrift in space ; An endlessly repeating distress call has been transmitting from the ship for over a thousand years.

According to a memory of Lieutenant M ' Ress, secondary communications officer in the Star Trek Logs, the Catian and Kzinti languages are similar enough that M ' Ress can pass as a Kzin just long enough for her to send off a distress call from a Kzin raiding ship.

They then planted a false distress signal in the hopes of luring a ship from the other universe into their own ( presumably with the intention of capturing the ship and using it as the vanguard of an invasion force ).

Her diary entries ( 31 July – 5 October ) record early 19th century life in Ilfracombe: a captured Spanish ship ; two ships in distress in a storm ; the visit of Thomas Bowdler ; and her lucky escape after being cut-off by the tide.

Coming close to catching the Peary, the Aurora then receives an indistinct distress call from another ship and has to turn round in order to help.

On stardate 4202. 9, following a trail of destroyed solar systems, the USS Enterprise responds to a distress call, finding their sister ship, the USS Constellation, adrift and heavily damaged in a system whose two inner planets are still intact.

Enterprise answers an automated distress call of the Vulcan ship Seleya, which was lost in the Expanse nine months earlier.

Later the Enterprise receives a distress call from the Triannon's ship which reports they have been damaged by a spacial anomaly.