🏷️ About: Whale Alert helps reduce the chance of fatal ship strikes by large vessels by displaying active whale management areas, required reporting areas, recommended routes, areas-to-be-avoided and near real-time warnings in shipping lanes along both coasts of the United States and Canada. This information allows vessel operators to avoid collision with whales by slowing down and heightening their visual awareness.
by Ship Pilot
WhaleAlert doesn’t appear to work off the Oregon and Washington coast. Sightings and feedback emails go unanswered. Is anyone home?
by Captain KT
WhaleAlert is a joke. It crashes constantly. Don’t waste your time with it
by LauraSepulvado
On an iPhone XR, it’s incredibly slow to zoom-in and out on the map. WhaleAlert is a good concept, but needs a lot of work.
by Mitesh Gala
The multiple layers added to this map feature makes WhaleAlert run super slow. And I have the latest iPhone so pretty sure they need to do more on their end to reduce the lag time.
by TiburcioVasquez
I get updates, but there is no way to actually look up the sighting in WhaleAlert . It should allow the user to select the most recent sightings by location. App has potential but needs lots of work!
by Durmatron
WhaleAlert is called Whale Alert but there is no feature to configure alerts for your area. You can report sightings but not be alerted when others report them.
by Cwgoodwin30
On iOS 8.2 app crashes when opened
by Redsoxsteve
Keep getting updates saying I’m in a marine restricted area when I’m about 15 miles from the ocean.
by Sudo_Lo
OMG.
WhaleAlert is amazing for whale enthusiasts, mariners, fishermen, researchers, citizen scientists, educators, aviators, environmentalists, and so much more.
I get that the creators currently only think of this as a way to help prevent ship strikes; are they not realizing how incredible this tool is? When I zoom out I can see where in the entire world whales have been seen and what type. I can see that their ranges and distributions are different than what we previously thought post-whaling. This tool could provide international open source crowdsourcing for data collection on all whales for all researchers looking to aid in endangered species conservation.
It needs some performance improvements. WhaleAlert needs more downloads and support for the developers to be able to do those though. This tool is phenomenal. I’m telling all of my friends. Thank you 😍
by Jleadsinger
I really love how WhaleAlert is designed. Straightforward, not a lot of distracting and unnecessary elements. Definitely a few tweaks needed to really make it ultimately user friendly but it is by far the best one I’ve used!
by Alyssa183893838
This is a super helpful app for the whale enthusiast and I can see how it would be helpful for those with boats! Unfortunately, the update time is very much lagging, which is less helpful. I was using this to try to see whales on a recent trip and I was in the area where whales were located, but didn’t see the updates to WhaleAlert until hours later despite checking it and refreshing it frequently. Good, could be great with some updates.
by Budweiser101
Some of these reviews are made to taint WhaleAlert’s worth. The cause is a start and WhaleAlert is its representation.
by Lhizzzzzle55
Really important system to alert boaters to avoid endangered whales and submit their sightings. A must for anyone who works on the water!
by Fgs026
- Thank you in Whale
by Leftovers Ain't Bad
an app to track your mom
by Mapmike
Glad to see the update and I hope everyone uses it!
Yes. Whale Alert is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 32 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 3.3/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for Whale Alert Is 58.3/100.
Yes. Whale Alert is a totally legit app. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 32 Whale Alert User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for Whale Alert Is 78.5/100..
Whale Alert works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or Contact Support.
Whale Alert is a collaboration of government agencies, academic institutions, non-profit conservation groups and private sector companies,: IFAW, Conserve.IO, Excelerate Energy, EOM Offshore, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Massachusetts Port Authority, NOAA Fisheries Service, NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries, , National Park Service, Cape Cod National Seashore, Point Blue Conservation Science, NYK Line (North America), United States Coast Guard and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
In some cases, whale sightings will trigger confirmation “over-flights” by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) or the United States Coast Guard (USCG) who will then determine whether or not temporary speed restrictions should be created (Dynamic Management Areas).
Whale Alert helps reduce the chance of fatal ship strikes by large vessels by displaying active whale management areas, required reporting areas, recommended routes, areas-to-be-avoided and near real-time warnings in shipping lanes along both coasts of the United States and Canada.
This information is shared in real-time with leading whale researchers and state and federal management authorities.
Whale Alert now supports reporting of whale sightings by the maritime community and the broader public.
This information allows vessel operators to avoid collision with whales by slowing down and heightening their visual awareness.
Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
