<< Do the whalewatching boats in the San Juans use a standard channel to communicate? >> When we were there several years ago, most of the commercial whale tour boats subscribed to a 'whale watch service'. Whale spotters, ashore on Vancouver Island, scanned the sea for orcas. When the spot some, te notified their customers by sending coded messages to the boat captains' digital pagers. An example; 906 = J & L pods 929 = whales moving fast 2484 = grid reference for Eagle Pt., off S. tip San Juan Isle. 1 = north The boat captain had a reference sheet with all the codes on one side and a map of the islands with reference grid on the other. This was enough to get them started in the right direction. Once 'on-site', most of the skippers seemed to cooperate and share info via VHS. (Sorry I don't remember the channel, but a scanning VHS should narrow it down.) Chuck Flanagan ------------------------------------------------------------ Please Reply to: Cpf3_at_Escapees.Com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jul 19 2004 - 15:09:43 PDT
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