Thanks for the "How Buoys work" posting. One thing that is not explained though, is how does the buoy differentiate the different swells in the water? For instance if you have a 4 foot 20 sec swell ...

On Jan. 20, an acoustic buoy detected an endangered North Atlantic right whale call near Savannah, prompting NOAA to issue a ...

Duluth, Minn. — For over 11 years Jay Austin and his research team at the University of Minnesota Duluth have carefully tended to a crop of bright-yellow meteorological buoys floating on Lake Superior ...

MONTEREY — Located about 3 miles offshore and 5 miles north of the Naval Postgraduate School is a first-of-its-kind ocean-sensing buoy. With 5G technologies and solar panels built in, the buoy has the ...

Map showing CDIP buoys located in Southern California waters -- the green dots indicate stations that are currently active. Image: CDIP Animated GIF showing the sea surface temperature anomaly ...

Three weeks ago, on Jan. 18, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife opened the commercial Dungeness crab fishery from the Sonoma/Mendocino county line to the U.S./Mexico border. There was a ...

Researchers with the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) assist in deploying an Ocean Power Technologies self-powered buoy for oceanographic and meteorological studies and 24/7 maritime domain awareness ...

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The buoys and mooring lines help divers easily identify the wrecks while also giving boaters somewhere to tie up. Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary Dozens of historic shipwrecks are ...