Help Washington State Ferries track whales in Puget Sound with new app
There is a new way for the public to help alert Washington state ferry captains to where orcas and other marine mammals are in Puget Sound.
This week, Washington State Ferries (WSF) began using Ocean Wise’s Whale Report Alert System (WRAS), a mobile app and web-based system that relies on real-time sightings to provide a more accurate and updated way to track whales.
The public can download the WhaleReport app and report sightings to commercial mariners within 10 nautical miles of the whales to help avoid collisions.
For each alert, users can report the species, time, number of whales, and the direction the animal or animals were traveling. Reports from the WhaleAlert app feed into the WRAS and are monitored at WSF operations centers, verified, and then relayed to any captains as needed.
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