Float Plan App

A smartphone application allowing boaters to file and share float plans digitally with friends or family; complements traditional paper float plans.

Methods (flares, flags, sound-making devices, electronic signals) to alert others of an emergency...

The highest-priority distress signal via radio, indicating imminent danger to vessel or crew; mus...

Procedures for retrieving a person who has fallen off a boat (e.g., the “figure 8” method, throwi...

The practice of leaving trip details (departure time, route, expected return) with a friend or ma...