The FCC has dropped the requirement to know Morse Code for all amateur radio licenses. I guess this occurred in Feb of this year, but I don't remember reading about it. I'm not sure but I think the navy may still use Morse code for ship-to-ship signal light communications. Looks like the International Telecommunication Union [ITU] dropped the Morse code requirement in 2003.
SOS: Contrary to popular notion, the letters S.O.S. do not stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls". They were selected to indicate a distress because, in Morse code, these letters and their combination create an unmistakable sound pattern.
This page shows the web site version of Morse Code.
Google Trends does not show any steep decline in the number of people searching for the term "Morse Code", but there is a decline.
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".. Abandoned by the Coast Guard, commercial ship captains — even the Boy Scouts — morse code may be on its way to becoming an ancient language. Underscoring that is the fact that SOS — three dots, three dashes, three dots — was retired as a distress signal, Morine said.
Morse code was also used as an international standard for maritime communication until 1999, when it was replaced by the Global Maritime Distress Safety System..."
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