Download the new NSRI tracking app
Directly from your smartphone you can enter your journey details and know that your journey is being tracked.
NSRI announces the launch of a free Safetrx smart phone app for Apple (iPhone/iPad) and Android handsets this week.
‘We are giving family and friends of people going out on South African waters another safety measure that they can use to be safe,’ said NSRI CEO Dr Cleeve Robertson.
The RSA SafeTrx App monitors a boats journey and alerts emergency contacts, who are nominated by the user (family and friends), should they fail to return to shore on time.
The app allows you to plan your journey on your smartphone. Directly from your smartphone you can enter your journey details and know that your journey is being tracked.
Should you not return by the time given, your ‘emergency contact’ will be alerted via sms and advised to alert the Maritime Rescue Co-Ordination Centre (MRCC).
The ‘emergency contact’ should firstly check that there is in fact a problem (and its not just an issue of forgetting to close the journey). If the trip is overdue without an explanation the ‘emergency contact’ should contact the MRCC which will activate the closest NSRI station.
Where an ‘emergency contact’ calls the MRCC concerning an overdue trip, they will have access to your location and SafeTrx trip data through a secure SafeTrx server. Since the RSA SafeTrx app periodically sends your location data back to Safetrx servers, the NSRI’s crew can be given your last known position.
