Chapter VII governs the operational use of the GMDSS, whose carriage requirements SOLAS sets, and distress, urgency and safety on 156.8 MHz (30.1, 30.5); nothing prevents a station in distress, or stations assisting it, from using any means (30.2, 30.3); the Chapter is obligatory in the maritime mobile and maritime mobile-satellite services for stations using the prescribed frequencies and techniques (30.4), and for aircraft communicating with maritime mobile-satellite stations (30.8), with aircraft distress-capable equipment specified (30.11) and land mobile stations bound when using distress frequencies (30.13).
The graph holds this control, the 0 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.