The need to identify ships in the North Atlantic near a distress location was realized, but wasn't established until the advent of the computer age- 1958.
Now the Amver system tracks over 5,000 ships per day globally, diverting them to distress locations around the world and saving an average of one life every 33 hours.
Let's not forget those people lost on that fateful night almost 100 years ago.
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