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Buoy Rescue

January 25, 2021
A small boat launched from NOAA Ship Pisces works to recover a Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) transponder buoy that had come detached from its anchor.

Photo: Lesley Urasky

Today the Pisces had a mission that they don’t normally take on.  The goal for today was to recovery a Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis  (DART) transponder buoy that had come detached from its anchor and was drifting with the currents.  The buoy is an integral part of the U.S. early tsunami detection system... The hull buoy we were retrieving, 2.6D70 from DART station 41421, went adrift after 5/12/2012 01Z. Since this type of equipment is very expensive to produce and expensive to retrieve it was the logical choice to swing a little out of our way to retrieve it on our journey back to Mayport.
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