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MARITIME SAFETY & PUBLIC SECTOR CASE STUDY

Safe Catch — Built to Work Where There Is No Signal

Artisanal small-boat fishermen along the Makran coast face severe maritime hazards, sudden squalls, engine breakdowns, and border drift without costly emergency equipment. Built in collaboration with Youth Association for Development (YAD) and Lloyd's Register Foundation, Safe Catch is an offline-first, low-literacy mobile safety tool that registers crew manifests, provides cached survival guidance, and coordinates search and rescue.
Partners Youth Association for Development & Lloyd's Register Foundation
Platform Low-Bandwidth Android Mobile Application
Location Gwadar Coastal Belt, Balochistan
One-Tap Trip Logging Icon-Driven Crew & Vessel Registration
Offline Survival Guide Cached Pictorial First-Aid & Navigation
Harbor Overdue Alert Automated Search & Rescue Incident Trigger
Community Safety Network Local Fisherfolk & Harbor Coordination
Open Ocean Vulnerability

The challenge

Artisanal small-boat fishermen along the Makran coast face severe maritime hazards, sudden squalls, engine breakdowns, and border drift. Traditional emergency distress equipment is either too costly or completely absent. When emergencies occur beyond cellular coverage, rescue coordination was hindered by lack of accurate departure manifests and emergency contact logs.

  • Severe Offshore Squalls & Engine Failures: Small wooden skiffs lack radar and engine telemetry; sudden monsoon squalls leave crews stranded miles offshore.
  • Zero Offshore Cellular Coverage: Boats operate beyond telecom towers where phone calls cannot be made, rendering conventional emergency apps completely ineffective.
  • No Pre-Departure Manifest Records: Boats left harbor without formal logs; when a vessel went missing, rescue teams lacked crew counts, vessel identifiers, or intended fishing coordinates.
Life-Saving Mobile Technology

What we built

A ruggedized, low-literacy mobile safety tool tailored specifically for coastal artisanal fishermen and harbor safety monitors.

One-Tap Visual Departure Manifest

High-contrast, pictorial interface enabling low-literacy skippers to log vessel name, crew count, destination zone, and expected return time in under 20 seconds before untying.

100% Offline Emergency Guide

Fully cached visual survival protocols, offshore engine troubleshooting diagrams, first-aid procedures, and sea current indicators requiring zero cellular connectivity.

Shore-Side Overdue Monitoring

Harbor focal points and civil society monitors view real-time voyage status; if a boat fails to return by its estimated time, an automated incident ticket is triggered with crew identities for search and rescue.

Inside the app

Screens from the Safe Catch app

Click any screen to see it full size. Contact names and phone numbers on the settings screen are blurred.

Welcome screen of the digital safety pilot for Gwadar fishermen
Welcome screen of the digital safety pilot for Gwadar fishermen
Home: lessons, practice, chat, emergency help, call for help and weather alerts
Home: lessons, practice, chat, emergency help, call for help and weather alerts
Weather alerts for Gwadar, with hourly and 7-day forecasts
Weather alerts for Gwadar, with hourly and 7-day forecasts
Settings: Urdu, Balochi or English, emergency and SOS contacts, and the SOS message
Settings: Urdu, Balochi or English, emergency and SOS contacts, and the SOS message

The result

Deployed across artisanal fishing communities in Gwadar, providing coastal families and maritime safety monitors with reliable digital safety logs and rapid emergency incident triggers.

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Critical search-and-rescue response dispatch time cut significantly, backed by accurate pre-departure crew manifests for every logged voyage.

Technical Stack & Architecture

Offline-first Android architecture, high-contrast low-literacy UI/UX, low-data synchronization, shore-side incident dashboard.

Why this one matters

Building an app that records data at sea, miles from any tower, taught us more about offline architecture than any city client requirement ever has. Every offline-first system we've built since draws on it. It's also the clearest evidence we can work to the standards an international foundation expects.

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