Garmin GPSMAP 5212 Owner's Manual - Page 60

Digital Selective Calling Viewing the DSC List The DSC list is a log of the most-recent DSC calls and other DSC contacts you have entered. The DSC list can contain up to 100 entries. The DSC list shows the most-recent call from a boat. If a second call is received from the same boat, it replaces the first call in the call list. From a chart screen, touch Menu > Other Vessels > DSC List. Receiving Distress Calls If your Garmin chartplotter and VHF radio are connected using NMEA 0183 or NMEA 2000, your chartplotter alerts you when your VHF radio receives a DSC distress call. If position information was sent with the distress call, that information is also available and recorded with the call. The symbol designates a distress call in the DSC List and marks the position of a vessel on the Navigation chart at the time a DSC distress call is sent. When you receive a DSC distress call: 1. Touch Review to view details about the call. 2. Select from the following options: • Select Call with Radio to set up an individual routine call with the radio to call the vessel in distress (page 58). This option is only available if you are using a Garmin NMEA 2000compatible VHF radio. • Select Edit to edit the vessel name and add a comment. If your radio is tracking the position of the vessel, touch Trail to show or hide the trail line for the vessel, and touch Trail Line to change the line color. • Select Clear Report to delete the call report. • Select Navigate To to Go To or Route To the position sent with the distress call (page 23). The symbol marks the position of the vessel on the Navigation chart at the time a DSC distress call is sent. • Select Create Waypoint to set a waypoint at the position sent with the distress call. • Select Next Page or Previous Page to toggle between details related to the distress call and a Navigation chart marking the position sent with the distress call. Man-Overboard Distress Calls Initiated from a VHF Radio When your Garmin chartplotter is connected to a Garmin NMEA 2000-compatible radio, and you initiate a man-overboard DSC distress call from your radio, your Garmin chartplotter displays the man-overboard screen and prompts you to navigate to the man-overboard point. If you have a Garmin autopilot system connected to the network, your chartplotter prompts you to start a Williamson's turn to the man-overboard point. If you cancel the man-overboard distress call on the radio, the chartplotter screen prompting you to activate navigation to the man-overboard location is no longer displayed. Man-Overboard Distress Calls Initiated from the Chartplotter When your Garmin chartplotter is connected to a Garmin NMEA 2000-compatible radio and you activate navigation to a man-overboard location, the radio displays the Distress Call page to initiate a man-overboard distress call On the radio, press and hold the DISTRESS key for at least three seconds to send the distress call. DSC 56 GPSMAP 5000 Series Owner's Manual