New app helps mariners avoid whales

Whale Alert, a free app, can be downloaded from the App Store. Credit: NOAA

Mariners along the US east coast can now download a new iPad and iPhone app that warns them when they enter areas of high risk of collision with critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.

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