Radio 1 DJs Colin Murray and Edith Bowman yesterday had to put out a call for sailors in the English Channel to check if they were accidentally re-broadcasting the BBC station over the coastguard's emergency radio channel.
It turned out that a boat owner in the Channel Islands had accidentally left the emergency channel on his boat's outgoing radio system turned on, and it was picking up the music radio playing in the background, making it hard for the local coastguard to hear genuine calls for help.
Said coastguard put in a call to BBC Radio Jersey, who passed on the message to Murray and Bowman whose programme seemed to be going out on the emergency channel. Murray told any sailors listening: "You are causing maritime chaos. So boat people of the world, stop it. We're a good show, but people don't need to die".
The offending boat owner heard the message and quickly turned off his connection to the emergency channel. Apparently he was quite embarrassed about the whole thing though, in his defence, I get the urge to send out an SOS message every time Bowman comes on the radio, so it was a pretty understandable mistake to make.