Costa Crociere, which is part of the Carnival Corp & PLC group, has teamed up with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to monitor the movements of whales from one of its ships to avoid collisions between them and whales.

“Costa Pacifica is the first cruise ship in the world to install REPCET(www.repcet.com), a trial programme designed to help reduce the risk of whale strikes while plotting the movements of these giants of the ocean,” the company said in a statement. 

“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.” 

Collisions between cruise liners and whales made headlines earlier this week when Sapphire Princess that belongs to Princess Cruises, which also is a Carnival gruop member, hit a whale in Alaska. The animal remained caught in the bow of the vessel following the collision.