Eight hundred mirrors in the hands of as many volunteers winked SOS, the famous maritime Morse Code distress signal on Nov. 9 ...

The term SOS is one of the most well-known distress signals used around the world. You might have seen it in movies, on ships ...

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As the Titanic gulped sea water on that awful night in April 1912, radio operator Jack Phillips was at his station, pounding out an SOS on the ship’s radiotelegraph key in Morse code. Eighty-three ...

Three men were rescued from a small, uninhabited Pacific island after writing a giant SOS sign in the sand, the Australian Department of Defense said on Monday. The men had been missing in the ...