SOBOS-Boating Safety App

Marine Patrol · 08-07-2018, 05:28 PM

The NH Marine Patrol along with the US Coast Guard, National Safe Boating Council, and East Carolina University would like to bring to your attention a new boating safety app that is now available nationwide. SOBOS is an iOS and Android mobile app, providing information about normal, non-accident based recreational boaters, designed to reduce recreational boating accidents. The goal is to test the efficacy of crowdsourcing recreational boating data as an evidence-based public health approach to reducing boating accidents.

SOBOS builds a “situational awareness” boater network that enables reports such as floating debris, lake congestion, broken down boats, and more (similar to the Waze app).

This project is also designed to reduce recreational boating accidents and fatalities by examining non-accident based boater characteristics.

For more information or to ask questions about SOBOS, visit https://sobos.org

08-07-2018, 05:28 PM	#1
Marine Patrol Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 32 Thanks: 1 Thanked 437 Times in 31 Posts	SOBOS-Boating Safety App The NH Marine Patrol along with the US Coast Guard, National Safe Boating Council, and East Carolina University would like to bring to your attention a new boating safety app that is now available nationwide. SOBOS is an iOS and Android mobile app, providing information about normal, non-accident based recreational boaters, designed to reduce recreational boating accidents. The goal is to test the efficacy of crowdsourcing recreational boating data as an evidence-based public health approach to reducing boating accidents. SOBOS builds a “situational awareness” boater network that enables reports such as floating debris, lake congestion, broken down boats, and more (similar to the Waze app). This project is also designed to reduce recreational boating accidents and fatalities by examining non-accident based boater characteristics. For more information or to ask questions about SOBOS, visit https://sobos.org

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