“I don't see anything, so I'm going to switch to a second app.' 'I'm taking a look at the WRAS - the Whale Report Alert System app,” Kalvoy explained as he consulted a digital map on his smartphone specially designed for commercial mariners. It's dark out by the time the ship passes Whidbey Island at reduced speed, that being the area where the endangered orcas were spotted earlier. 'If you see them, or you see a report, you want to make sure you keep alert and stay away from them, out of their path,' Kalvoy said. Plus, as if that weren't enough, an app on his smartphone told him critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales were sighted in the shipping lanes an hour to the north earlier in the day. The ship’s bridge, 15 stories above the waterline, buzzed with the crackle of radios and clipped conversations in the crew's native languages of Korean and Indonesian when Kalvoy came onboard.Ĭaptain Kalvoy soon had a lot to juggle: coordinating the tugboats, ordering the right amount of engine power, cuing the helmsman and watching the cross traffic of ferries and fishing boats. Puget Sound Pilot Jostein Kalvoy got the assignment to guide the 1,000-foot container ship SM Yantian out to sea from the Port of Seattle on a Friday evening in late October. A recent ride-along on a big container ship demonstrated that real-time whale alerts are still a work in progress. Three separate teams have developed smartphone-based systems that can alert commercial mariners to watch out, slow down or change course when whales have been sighted nearby. But when it does, it's upsetting, tragic and the whale probably dies.

Fortunately, it doesn't happen very often in the Pacific Northwest that ships collide with whales.

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