Tablets have become an indispensible part of business for Safe/Sea marine rescue. The North Kingstown company is always on the lookout for technology innovations and utilizes iPads for everything from contacting their captains, to monitoring weather conditions and capturing a client’s signature at the end of a job.

In the past, “The captains would have to come in at the end of the shift with that piece of paper [bearing a client’s signature] and collate that with the printed case report,” said Pete Andrews, vice president, co-founder and minority owner of the company which began rescuing boats in Rhode Island waters in 1984 when the U.S. Coast Guard stopped providing free towing service in nonemergency situations.

Full Story: Marine-rescue firm turns to technology to stay afloat Source: Providence Business News, January 30th, 2012 Author: Kimberley Donoghue Added on January 30th, 2012 at 2:19 pm, by Muse en Lystrala