1. Therefore, the GEOSAR satellites only can relay a beacon s distress message . 2. Thorndike sent out a distress message Sunday afternoon asking for medical help. 3. A DSC touch screen control panel showing a ( simulated ) distress message . 4. The Gaul, based in Hull, disappeared in February 1974, without sending a distress message . 5. But Lin managed to send a distress message to the water police in Nakhodka. 6. These include sabotage with dynamite and fake distress messages . 7. She said that no further contact had been made since the distress message was received. 8. Unusually, the " Gladiator " stocked carrier pigeons to carry distress messages to the company office. 9. So he began to take the plane down, and ordered Miles to radio a distress message . 10. Shortly after, the distress message , reports began to reach ATC from the police of an aircraft crash.