
 In certain situations (very low fuel, too shallow of water, fresh water
 empty...) the monitoring system will shut the ship down automatically
 and force you to get assistance. This is called an AUTO SHUTDOWN, and
 when it happens you will not be able to start the engines until you
 have recovered from it. If an auto shutdown occurrs, CH 1 on the 
 Teletype will give the reason for the shutdown. 
 If an auto-shutdown occurrs while using the NavMap Plotter, you can
 press RESTORE to recover. If the shutdown happens while sailing real
 time, say, for example, you fell asleep and the ship ran aground a
 20th of a mile off the coast of Senegal, you must try to recover by
 sending a distress signal to a passing ship or waiting a penalty period 
 of up to three minutes. The same is true if you press GO in plotter
 mode when you have Plotted yourself into an Automatic Shutdown.
 To try and get outside help and recover by sending the distress 
 signal, you should monitor the front pilothouse view until you see a 
 passing ship. Then you go to the Teletype in the instrument room and rep-
 eatedly press 's' or click the SEND button. This sends out a standard
 distress signal on a standard frequency. The passing ship will get the
 signal and at that point you will be refurbished enough to continue
 sailing. For example, if you ran out of fuel real-time and recovered from
 auto-shutdown with the aid of a passing ship, you will be given 250 
 gallons of fuel with which to resume sailing on. CH 1 on the Teletype
 will go from "<<<< WARNING: AUTO SHUTDOWN >>>>" to "CH 1: No Messages"
 to "CH 2: A passing vessel has assisted..." to indicate that you have
 recovered. 
