Serving Costa Rica as a park ranger is a task that can be fraught with peril, particularly when it comes to being assigend to wild nature preserves such as the Corcovado National Park, located in the Osa Peninsula of our country’s Southern Pacific coast. The dangers at this pristine, yet dangerous, national park include: ***** bites, twisted or broken ankles, exhaustion, dehydration, or even facing off against armed illegal miners, obstinate poachers, unlawful loggers, or nervous drug traffickers. Still, the greatest fear of park rangers in Corcovado is losing communications and getting lost in the deep jungle. Thanks to donations… The post Satellite Tech Helps Protect National Parks of Costa Rica appeared first on Costa Rica Star News. Continue reading → The post Satellite Tech Helps Protect National Parks of Costa Rica appeared first on Costa Rica Bookings.
Serving Costa Rica as a park ranger is a task that can be fraught with peril, particularly when it comes to being assigend to wild nature preserves such as the Corcovado National Park, located in the Osa Peninsula of our country’s Southern Pacific coast. The dangers at this pristine, yet dangerous, national park include: ***** bites, twisted or broken ankles, exhaustion, dehydration, or even facing off against armed illegal miners, obstinate poachers, unlawful loggers, or nervous drug traffickers. Still, the greatest fear of park rangers in Corcovado is losing communications and getting lost in the deep jungle.
Thanks to donations by non-governmental organizations that work with the Conservation Area of the Osa Peninsula, the brave park rangers in Corcovado are now monitored by a satellite network that includes one portable phone and ten Spot Satellite Messengers, which are preferred by mountaineers and rescue squads around the world.
The Spot Satellite Messenger features global positioning system (GPS) technology and five advanced communication options that are guaranteed to work even in the most remote corners of Costa Rica. Each Spot device carried by the Corcovado National Park rangers features the following functions:
- SOS: Use this function In the event of a life threatening or other critical emergency to notify emergency services of your GPS location and that you need assistance. The GEOS International Emergency Response Center alerts the appropriate agencies worldwide for example contacting 9-1-1 responders in North America and 1-1-2 responders in Europe.
- Help: In the event of a non-life threatening emergency, you can use this function to notify your personal contacts that you need assistance. Additional SPOT Assist services can be purchased and programmed to your Help button as well. When activated with SPOT Assist, the Help button will notify professional services either on the land or water. SPOT has partnered with national service providers to offer non-life threatening assistance.
- Check-in/OK: This feature allows you to let your friends and family know that all is OK with a pre-programmed message along with your GPS location. With a push of a button a message is sent via email or SMS to up to 10 pre-determined contacts and your waypoint is stored in your SPOT account for later reference. Your stored waypoints can be easily integrated into a SPOT Shared Page or SPOT Adventure account.
- Custom Message: This feature allows you to let your friends and family now receive a custom message along with your GPS location with a push of a button. Use this feature as a secondary OK message or transfer your personal help alert to this message function if you are using a SPOT Assist service on your Help button.
- Tracking: Start/stop tracking at any time using your SPOT device (Additional service required). You can also mark a Reference Point or send Check-in/OK messages from specific locations while in Track Progress mode.
The Spot Messengers are rugged and waterproof. According to Monserrath Vargas of national newspaper La Nacion, the CRUSA Foundation provided $2000 to get these devices. The annual subscription for each device runs $160.
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