Spot Satellite Tracking

Whether you’re just checking in, allowing others to track your progress, or calling for help – SPOT gives you a vital line of communication with friends and family when you want it and emergency assistance when and where you need it. And since it utilises 100% satellite technology, SPOT works around the world – even where mobile phones don’t. Spot is also completely waterproof to 1m and floats.

Size: (approx. 111 mm x 69 mm x 44 mm) Approximate Weight: (209 grams)

ALERT 000 Use this function in the event of a life threatening or other critical emergency to notify emergency services via Satellite in Canberra of your exact location and that you need assistance.

How It Works:
Once activated, SPOT will acquire its exact coordinates from the GPS network, and send that location along with a distress message to our Emergency Response Center in Canberra every five minutes until cancelled. The Emergency Response Center notifies the appropriate emergency responders based on your location and personal information – which may include local police, highway patrol, the Coast Guard, our country’s embassy or consulate, or other emergency response or search and rescue teams – as well as notifying your emergency contact person(s) about the receipt of a distress signal.

Important Note:
UnlimitedAlert 000 usage is included as part of the low-cost SPOT service plan. Even if SPOT cannot acquire its location from the GPS network it will still attempt to send a distress signal – without exact location – to the Emergency Response Center, which will still notify your contacts of the signal and continue to monitor the network for further messages.

SPOT is designed for maximum reliability. Spot performs a self-diagnostic test each time it is powered on. Additionally, Spot strongly recommends that you send and verify an OK/Check message each time before use. This allows you to evaluate your entire messaging system, from the operational condition of the messenger to the readiness of those you’ve chosen to notify of your messages.


TRACK PROGRESS:
Also known as SPOT CASTING allows friends and family to follow your progress in real time using your password, or to save waypoints so you can review your entire route at a later date. Once activated, SPOT acquires and sends your GPS coordinates to your SPOT account every 10 minutes. Anyone with access to your account information can log on and view your route, complete with virtual views provided by Google Map.

Four Simple Functions
911- Press and hold the 911 (now 000) button to alert emergency responders of life-threatening events. The Emergency Response Center will work with public response agencies around the world, and call your emergency contacts to find out more about your situation and keep them informed of rescue progress. GEOS works with all rescue agencies from the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and Coast Guard to local urban and rural 9-1-1 call centers. Optionally, GEOS will also dispatch private rescue agencies in those countries where public resources won’t do. 000 sends a message and location update every 5 minutes until cancelled.

Help
Not every situation is life-threatening. Run out of fuel? Snap a mainsail? Need a Tow? Press “HELP” to let friends and family know where your are and your situation, or notify your local boat towing affiliate. They’ll get a text message on their mobile phone and an email with a link to Google Maps so they can assist. Help sends a message and location update every 5 minutes for 1 hour or until cancelled.

Check-in
Lets your contacts know you’re okay, or save your location for later viewing on the SPOT web service using Google Maps. Great to let your spouse know that you are running late, mark where the fish are biting, or just remember a special place. Contacts can get a text message with your GPS location and an e-mail with a link to Google Maps. For maximum reliability, Check-in sends the same message from the messenger three times, and delivers the first to all of your contacts.

Press and hold the “OK/Check” button for 5 seconds. Now, Track Progress updates your location every 10 minutes to your SPOT web account. You can trek virtually anywhere outdoors and your family and friends can see exactly where you are in real time, without interrupting your fun. Give them your password to view your account as you travel, or save your tracks for viewing later using Google Earth (.KML), or GPX, the GPS data format. So, no matter what you do on the water, you can enjoy it with more fun, more security, and more peace of mind with SPOT.