Tracking Device Leads Florida Sheriff's Department To Stolen Boat Within 60 Minutes |
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Boat owner Alberto Verdesi had installed the Nav-Tracker system in October. About 6 am ET on Saturday morning, Nav-Tracker sent a text message to Verdesi's cell phone that his boat was on the move without his permission and where it was headed. He called the Broward Sheriff's Department, which dispatched a helicopter to locate the boat. When the helicopter flew over the location, the thieves ran off, but the $200,000 boat was recovered in good shape. CONTACTS FOR THE ABOVE STORY
Broward County (Florida) Sheriff’s Department : 1+954-831-8900 When a Nav-Tracker 2.0 transmitter is mounted discreetly on a boat, a wireless ‘fence’ with a 500-foot range is created. If a boat is moved outside of this fence, Nav-Tracker 2.0 uses Inmarsat based GPS satellite technology to monitor a boat’s location and notify up to four people by email and/or text message every 15 minutes with the latitude/longitude, speed and heading. As many as 27,000 boats are stolen annually, according to the International Association of Marine Investigators. “Alarms and other deterrents are not enough. However, with Nav-Tracker on board, if your boat is stolen, there's a very good chance you'll get it back,” said Jay Keenan, Paradox Marine Vice President of Marketing. The message transmitted from Nav-Tracker 2.0 on board the Fountain 35 when it was stolen would have been similar to this:
Message From Nav-Tracker 2.0 Some insurance companies now require GPS tracking devices to be installed on certain types of boats, including high performance boats and boats with triple high-horsepower outboards. For more information about Nav-Tracker 2.0 and other Paradox Marine boat security, monitoring and tracking products, visit www.paradoxmarine.com or call 1+954-565-9898.
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida (USA) – A 35-foot Fountain equipped with the Nav-Tracker 2.0 wireless boat location and GPS tracking system from Paradox Marine helped the Broward County, Florida Sheriff's Department recover the $200,000 boat within 60 minutes on Saturday (January 3).
