United States Coast Guard
http://www.uscg.mil/mobile
With the U.S. Coast Guard app, you can:
- Identify the boating safety laws, requirements and resources available in your home state, the state where you keep your vessel or the state where you are planning to operate.
- Request a vessel safety check from the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.
- Determine what safety equipment you are required to carry by law based on the size and type of vessel you are operating. The app also recommends additional safety equipment you might want to consider.
- File a float plan with up to three friends, loved ones or other responsible parties. While you cannot file a float plan directly with the Coast Guard, the app helps you develop a float plan that will allow your responsible party to provide search and rescue coordinators with important information they can use to facilitate a missing or overdue boater case.
- Review the most commonly sought out navigational “rules of the road.”
- Access weather information from the closest NOAA buoy to your current location.
- Report a navigational hazard to the Coast Guard – this could be a buoy or marker out of place, a sunken vessel or some other obstacle obstructing safe passage of a Federal waterway.
- Report pollution to the Coast Guard – from a minor oil sheen at the dock to a major pollution event, you can help protect our marine environment.
- Report suspicious activity to the Coast Guard – if you see something, say something! We all have a shared responsibility for homeland security.
While the U.S. Coast Guard app will help you better prepare for your time on the water and may help you contact the Coast Guard in an emergency, it is not a replacement for a VHF-FM marine radio, EPIRB, safe boating classes and common sense. Learn more about being a responsible boater at http://www.uscgboating.org/.
The U.S. Coast Guard app is a self-contained mobile application that resides solely on your mobile device. Information about yourself, your vessel and your current or past locations is only shared with the Coast Guard when you choose to do so.
Category : Lifestyle
Reviews (29)
Well crafted and intuitive app. Needed information is easy to find without a lot searching. Adding tide, current, and wave information would make this top notch.
We used this app to file float plans from Miami to Bimini and back. Spoke with coast guard Miami upon our return because we had engine trouble and reported it through the app. We were told this app isn't monitored and they dont use it. My advise for possible life threatening situations Dont Use the App! You could end up on an island talking to a soccer ball named Wison!
I have shared this app with my kayaking group. My only complaint is most of us have more than 3 kayaks and we are limited to listing only 3. I have 5. It seems to be the average amount in my group. Last weekend there were 16 kayaks owned by 3 people. Would by nice to list all of them in our profiles
please update with added NOAA weather and wave height information. Possibly with a calendar as so user can check predicted wave height and weather information up to as many as 5 days in advance. Also please add tide chart /lunar etc...
Member of Coast Guard Auxiliary for 16 years. Great branch of the Military. Furnish excellent training. Waterway Guardians. Can't say enough good things about these fine men and women.
kept crashing. incorrect nav rules info pointing to the incorrect corresponding photos. would not let me open the navigation rules of the road.
Hope our waters are protected better because this app is a failure. We're unable to enter date or time for the plan, unable to select State Boating Information - continually crashes.
buoy data not working. says unavailable. primary use feature please fix. not fixed as stated in latest release notes
Doesnt wprk. The open button doesnt show
Very informative. Needs to be updated
Nice but closes down a lot. Doesnt let me enter some information into float plan.
To the morons who rate this app one star because they are technically-challenged; you have no clue. This app is helpful and you know what else it is? FREE! If you want to be saved, buy and EPIRB or go find Jesus. 👍
cant get buoy info now, been using the app for years and the buoy information just quit. bummer!
If you go out in the water this is amazing to have and could save your life a must have !!!
Alaska, lots of bouy icons on map where no bouy exists.
app doesn't allow use of full coltegs
Like the ability to leave a float plan for my kayaking trips
Has much of the information a boater needs for safety and a connection to the USCG when on the water.
Had to use, they constantly checked on me every 15 to 30 minutes, until my help arrived
Really great and helpful. Thanks USCG.
I guess illinois hasn't figured out how to tax this feature, it won't load illinois river info.
Great app and easy to use!!!
this app works very well and I'm happy to have this app
Lots of useful info!
I Really Enjoyed It, Thank You.
Great info offered in this app.
Thank you United States Coast Guard... Our Family.
On mobile great coast gaurd aux member
This app needs to updated and kept modern if you want people to use it. I dont think the float plan emailing is working. After creating a float plan, it wont attach the file to email, attachment is zero bytes, there is no option to save the PDF locally.