DISTRESS SIGNALS FROM TITANIC HEARD 100 YEARS LATER Joseph Allen retransmitted the Morse code distress signals of the RMS TITANIC from the site of the shipwreck on the 100th anniversary of the disaster. On April 14th, 2012, the Morse code signal “CQD” was relayed via satellite to the site of the Marconi Wireless station in Cape Race Newfoundland, Canada that handled much of the distress-related communications after the ship foundered. Allen and his wife, Paula, joined nearly 600 fellow passengers aboard the cruise ship MV AZAMARA JOURNEY to visit the TITANIC's resting place at the bottom in the North Atlantic Ocean. As a former Radio Officer in the U.S. Merchant Marine, Allen briefed passengers on the communication technology and shipboard radio procedures of the day and presented a slide show that included images of the TITANIC's radio room and sound files that enabled passengers to hear what the ship's wireless radio signals sound like. More than one thousand five hundred passengers were lost when the TITANIC struck an iceberg and sank in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. More than seven hundred and six passengers were rescued by the steamship CARPATHIA in response to wireless distress signals transmitted by the TITANIC's Radio Officer, John Phillips.  The disaster led to many new maritime regulations to improve safety of life at sea and the eventual formation of the International Ice Patrol, a U.S. Coast Guard agency that monitors and reports the position of icebergs that encroach upon transatlantic shipping lanes. For more information about this event, please contact: mercomms@aol.com