With King Donald's Project 2025 including dismantlement of NOAA (to help deny climate change):
"El Faro’s EPIRB was identified by a unique hexadecimal beacon identifier that was transmitted to the US Mission Control Center through the local user terminal at the NOAA search-and-rescue satellite-aided tracking (SARSAT) facility in Suitland, Maryland.139 The beacon identifier corresponds to registration data held by NOAA"
So they will also hurt ability to help ships in distress.