The NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has a requirement to contract with the organization to assist in the reimbursement for fuel, supplies, equipment, and shipment of samples. The Alaska Whale Foundation is the only organization that can purchase the required supplies/equipment from Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, who require purchaser to have a level 4 CO Investigator letter. These tools include but are not limited to: aluminum custom light knives with removable Spyderco blade with welded safety nib on tip, stainless steel custom light knives with welded Spyderco blade with welded safety nib on tip, stainless steel flying knives with welded spyderco blade with welded safety nib on tip, replacement sypderco blades with welded safety tip, standard grapples, flying grapples, flying jam hook, large whale telemetry buoy rated to a depth of 600m and that will maintain hydrodynamic orientation when being towed at up to seven knots, flying tool socket and mooring hook adapter with line guard. The Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies supplies disentanglement equipment to authorized and appropriately-trained responders only.

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