Atta Buoy

Deploying
Originally uploaded by Mark Ciccarello.

Rumor is that this SEACOOS buoy I helped launch this summer has weathered the hurricane OK. It's 20 miles off Cape Lookout, which puts it in the eye in the photo below. Of course it's difficult to know what condition it's in, but if it were off its GPS location we could tell.

We previously lost the first of these buoys put out as a test without instruments in a lesser storm in January. Haven't seen hide nor hair of it since. Consequently the design of the mooring was changed. Looks like it worked.


Update: actually, it turn out that all the instruments and the solar panels were pretty much destroyed. They had to haul it back to the institute and work on another moooring redesign.