The Cospas Sarsat space segment (provided by the United States, Russian Federation, France, and Canada) detects distress signals from maritime, aviation, and land based users and relays them to the appropriate rescue coordination authorities.

The statements were based on contributions which the Movement received from its relays on the various continents (with input from the South American and European Movements giving greater weight to the statements made to the Economic and Social Council).

Provision is made for supplies to upgrade substandard electrical installations in Sukhumi, Gali and Zugdidi, at the transport workshops and team bases ( 46,800) and for supplies such as electrical cables, relays, breakers, fuse panels and stores for routine maintenance of electrical equipment ( 30,000).

And it can record this data for up to two years, and keep it in that tag, release at a pre programmed time, float to the surface, upload all that data, that whole travelogue, to satellite, which relays it directly to our computers, and we've got that whole dataset. And we didn't even have we just had to tag the animal and then we went home and you know, sat at our desks.