BSAC’s free Sealife Tracker App goes Android

The BSAC co-created Sealife Tracker app – which enables divers to help monitor the spread of invasive species in British seas – is now available for Android phones.

Already available as a free download from iTunes, the Sealife Tracker has now been made available for Android download via the Play Store.

The Sealife Tracker app focuses on around a dozen non-native species of fish, invertebrates and plants which pose a potential threat to the indigenous marine life in our seas and the marine environment around our coastline as well as native species which are considered to be climate change indicator species.

The app has been developed in conjunction with the University of Bristol, the Environment Agency, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage.

With this easy-to-use tracker, divers and snorkellers can now identify any of these species they may see on their dives and then upload details. Information uploaded via the Sealife Tracker – and it can also include photos which you can upload after a dive – will go towards essential research data.

For more information on the Sealife Tracker app, click here.

iPhone users can download the app from iTunes.