Paradox Marine Receives US Coast Guard Medal For Help With Stolen Boat Recovery Nav-Tracker 2.0 Located Stolen Boat In The Bahamas, Recovered By Coast Guard
12 Hours Later Wireless boat security
systems supplier Paradox Marine has received a medal from the US Coast Guard in recognition of its innovative product, the
NAV-TRACKER 2.0 GPS Tracking System. The system helped the Coast Guard recover a stolen boat in the Bahamas last September
17. A 34-foot Contender equipped
with the Paradox Marine Nav-Tracker 2.0 GPS tracking system, stolen from Marsh Harbor in the Bahamas, was located by the system
and recovered in the vicinity by the US Coast Guard about 12 hours later.
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Wireless security systems supplier Paradox Marine received
a medal from the US Coast Guard in recognition of its innovative product, the NAV-TRACKER 2.0 which helped the Coast Guard
recover a stolen boat in the Bahamas last September 17. From left: Jonathan Ocasio (Product Specialist), Brian Kane (Director
of R & D), Jay Keenan (Vice President), Marc Curreri (President) and JC Ocasio (Senior Product Specialist). |
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a Nav-Tracker 2.0 transmitter is mounted discreetly on a boat, a wireless ‘geo-fence’ with a 500-meter radius
is created. If a boat is moved outside of this geo-fence, the Nav-Tracker 2.0 uses Inmarsat based GPS satellite technology
to monitor a boat’s location and notify up to ten people by email and/or text message every 15 minutes with the latitude/longitude,
speed, heading and distance to closest city. As many as 27,000 boats are stolen annually and the odds of recovery are only about 1 in 10, according to the International
Association of Marine Investigators. “With a NAV-TRACKER 2.0 onboard, we have experienced the successful recovery of
vessels unharmed, sometimes in less than one hour,” said Jay Keenan, Paradox Marine Vice President. |
The
message transmitted from Nav-Tracker 2.0 on board the Fountain 35 when it was stolen would have been similar to this:
Message From Nav-Tracker 2.0
User: Paradox Marine
Asset: M/Y Island Time
Fleet:
ETI
Date/Time: 2006-07-25 15:06:28 (EDT)
Event: Geo-fence breached;
Location: 26.05767,-80.1303.3 (0.75
mi NE of Hollywood, FL 33019)
Speed/heading: 9.2 Knots, 144 deg
Google Earth Map: [KML]
On January
3rd of this year, a 35’ Fountain Executioner was also recovered with the help of a NAV-TRACKER 2.0 in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, just 54 minutes after being stolen.
Some insurance companies now require GPS tracking devices, like the
NAV-TRACKER 2.0, to be installed on certain types of boats, including high performance boats and boats with triple high-horsepower
outboards.
The NAV-TRACKER 2.0 is powered by Satamatics , a global telematics company, which provides customized,
end-to-end tracking and monitoring solutions that will work anywhere in the world.
For more information about Nav-Tracker 2.0 and other Paradox Marine boat security,
monitoring and tracking products, visit www.marineguardsecurity.com or call 360.588.2120
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