Check out the RCM-SAR Safe Boating App! Plan your next voyage with this handy app:

It Features:

• Easy to navigate menu-system
• Links to useful voyage planning resources (tides, currents, wind, weather, fishing regulations)
• Boating resource page with links to marine resources
• Transport Canada safety equipment and navigation light requirements
• Recommended equipment
• Trip planning checklists
• Safe Fueling procedures including a Litre – US Gallon – Imp. Gallon conversion
• Safe Fueling procedures including a Litre – US Gallon – Imp. Gallon conversion calculator.
• VHF Radio Channel Listing for Canada-Pacific
• Basic “Right of Way” rules
• Lateral and Cardinal Buoy Information
• Semi-Automated “Where am I” and Tsunami Debris reporting tools
• How to make emergency calls, with sample voice recordings
• Contact information for non-emergency tows including direct dialing for help
• Various distress signal illustrations and sample Pan Pan, Mayday Audio
• Emergency Procedures
• Direct Twitter Feed from @RCM_SAR posts
• RCM-SAR Station List