Ottawa, Ontario – October 24, 2007 – The owner of a high-end offshore sport fishing boat berthed in Key Largo , FL, is feeling much better now that his craft is safely back home after a two-day unauthorized excursion across the Gulf of Mexico. The craft was first reported stolen on October 18 as the on-board GPS tracking unit came to life and started reporting movement while the owner was sound asleep at home. The unit, developed by Guardian Mobility Corporation of Ottawa, Canada and installed by Miami-based, Boat-Track Inc. is designed to transmit GPS locations every 15 minutes to a web-accessible mapping service where detailed movement of the asset is recorded and displayed. The map track showed that the vessel sailed to within one mile of the western coastline of Cuba during the evening of the theft and then mysteriously sat idle 50 miles off the coast the following day. That evening the vessel sailed to Isla Mujeres an island just off the coast of Cancun, Mexico. It was here that the owner, the insurance company and Mexican authorities recovered the boat as it arrived in Mexico.
NBC6 WTVJ picked up the story on October 22 and reported that the South Florida area was being plagued by numerous thefts of high powered offshore vessels over the past few months http://www.nbc6.net/news/14374070/detail.html. A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission report recently estimated that boat thefts in Miami-Dade alone were up more than 20 percent from last year and that the majority of these thefts can be linked to Cuban migrant smuggling. U.S. Border Patrol has shown a significant increase in Cuban migrants showing up along the U.S. – Mexico border after being ferried across the Yucatán Channel to Cancún and Isla Mujeres
http://miamipress.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/ghost-shipsboat-thefts-blamed-on-smugglers/.
Anthony Grondin, President of Boat-Track Inc., said “With the rise of boat thefts, using our Guardian-developed tracking service, you’ll know immediately if your boat starts to move without your knowledge plus there will be a better chance of successful recovery by the authorities. It’s also much more cost effective than protecting your boat with multiple layers of physical security”.

About Boat-Track Inc.
Boat-Track Inc. is a Miami based distributor of Guardian Mobility asset tracking devices specializing in marine installations for the protection of customers’ investments. Contact Anthony Grondin at 305-354-3441 or see their web site at www.boat-track.com .