I was involved in the first EPRIB rescue on this coast. Guy was on a fundraiser trip around Vancouver Island by Canoe late Sept/Oct (sigh) He got smashed onto the rocks at Brooks Peninsula with a broken leg. He had been loaned an early 406/121.5 EPRIB. He turned it on, first satellite picked up a 406 signal and alerted that it was West Coast Canada, 2nd hit narrowed it to West Coast Vancouver Island, we were tasked and steamed out of Tahis. On the way 3rd hit narrowed it to Brooks Peninsula. When we closed to 15nm we started picking up the 121.5 on our DF, it brought us right to him. As there was no beach. My buddy and I swan into the rocks and we bundled him into a survival suit and the boat dragged us out through the surf. It was amazing to be involved in such a rescue that involved almost no Search and we could purely focus on rescue. Without that beacon, he could have been there for a week and possibly died and the search would have consumed 100's of man hours in ship and aircraft time. That one EPRIB likley saved the government 1/4-1/2 of a million dollars in search costs.