App Created to Help Mariners Avoid Endangered Right Whales

摘要

Whale Alert, a free app launched in April for iPhone and iPad, is designed to warn mariners along the U.S. East Coast when entering areas vvhere there is high risk of collision with endangered North Atlantic right whales. Developed by EarthNC (Delray Beach, Florida), the app uses GPS, automatic identification system (AiS), Internet and digital nautical chart technologies to alert mariners to NOAA's right whale conservation measures that are active in their immediate vicinity.