{"id":6673,"date":"2011-11-04T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2011-11-08T20:06:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T04:06:18","slug":"the-first-person-to-use-the-sos-distress-signal-was-also-the-second-person-to-recieve-the-sos-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/the-first-person-to-use-the-sos-distress-signal-was-also-the-second-person-to-recieve-the-sos-signal\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Person to Use the SOS Distress Signal was Also the Second Person to Recieve the SOS Signal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/first-sos-signal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6674\" title=\"first-sos-signal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/first-sos-signal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/first-sos-signal.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/first-sos-signal-340x232.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>In 1909, T.D. Haubner of the SS Arapahoe became the first person to use the SOS distress signal call.\u00a0 The ship he worked on had lost its screw near the Diamond Shoals which are also known as the \u201cGraveyard of the Atlantic\u201d.\u00a0 Interestingly, a few months later Haubner, still working on the SS Arapahoe, received the world\u2019s second SOS call; this one sent from the SS Iroquois.\u00a0 So he was the first sender and the second receiver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/what-the-sos-distress-signal-stands-for\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## In 1909, T.D. Haubner of the SS Arapahoe became the first person to use the SOS distress signal call.\u00a0 The ship he worked on had lost its screw near the Diamond Shoals which are also known as the \u201cGraveyard of the Atlantic\u201d.\u00a0 Interestingly, a few months later Haubner, still working on the SS Arapahoe, received the world\u2019s second SOS [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[805,806,804,803],"class_list":["post-6673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-sos","tag-nautical-facts","tag-sos-facts","tag-sos-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6835,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions\/6835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}