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Costa Cruises teams up with WWF to monitor whales

Costa Cruises has teamed up with World Wildlife Fund to monitor whale activity from one of its cruise ships.

Costa Pacifica is the first cruise ship in the world to install REPCET - a trial programme designed to help reduce the risk of whale strikes while plotting the movements of these giants of the ocean.

The move comes in the wake of the news that the Sapphire Princess sadly hit and killed a humpback whale during as recent cruise.

New technology has been installed on Costa Pacifica to record and transmit whale sightings and monitor air pollution.
The REPCET programme uses a global satellite network and the reports of sightings sent by participating ships in order to transmit warnings to passenger and commercial vessels whose routes are likely to take them close to the animals.

Costa Cruises has also joined up with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and Costa Pacifica will soon be the location of a brand new series of atmospheric measurements for monitoring climate change in the Mediterranean.