My biggest fear is that if something happens to me, with SPOT he can press the SOS button and stay with the car and hopefully someone will come along.

I would say that is a bad way to proceed unless you know exactly who will be contacted in Morocco (as I am trying to find out from GEOS).

Better to get him to call your wife on a mobile, or program SPOT to contact the wife and a few others ('HELP') and tell him how to do it. Or rent a sat phone.

It is so much better to have a co-ordinated rescue plan in place than pressing a button on a gadget and hoping for the best. I suspect this is what has given SPOT a bad reputation with SAR services.

You wife needs simply to contact the Brit embassy in Morocco with your details including position. They have all the local contacts and will know exactly what to do. Better still, register with the embassy before you go if you are concerned - they like that.

Anyway, in Morocco you will unlikely be alone for long and if you're driving on what few remote routes there are alone (like MW1 or MW6), then renting a sat phone is much a better idea.

Chris S

Later: I just got mine today and set it up. All very easy - dont know what all these online complaints are about the terrible manual and website (maybe it's changed). Test of Check in/OK message + location arrived by email and text in seconds (from southern England).
Online FAQ did not help so I checked with a SPOT helpline about using HELP/SPOT Assist and (asking several times) I was told there are no 'SPOT Assist service partners' in Europe/Africa. Only in North America.
So you can program the HELP/SPOT Assist as an SOS to your specified individuals out of North America without risking also calling out Crazy Bob's Haulage & Recovery in Hooterville, ID. The Custom button is an alternative for this but only fires off once - HELP keeps on transmitting until the battery is flat - or something like that.

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