WASHINGTON — Weather buoys are an incredibly important resource for meteorologists. They can help reduce the loss of life and property and protect the ecosystem from natural and human-induced ...

PORT ANGELES — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Henry Blake pulled out of Port Angeles Harbor with a mission to refurbish a National Oceanic and Atmospheric weather buoy in the Strait of Juan de Fuca that ...

ABOARD THE U.S. COAST GUARD CUTTER FIR, PACIFIC OCEAN -- The Fir steamed all night and early morning, arriving at the Stonewall Banks station, 20 miles west of Newport early this morning for the ...

ABOARD THE U.S. COAST GUARD CUTTER FIR -- Plucking a 14,600-pound navigation buoy from the drink is no easy task. You wouldn't want to, say, drop it on your foot. But the crew of the Fir did it today ...

Myrtle Beach, SC - MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - The Atlantic Ocean is the driving force of the Grand Strand economy. People want to live by it and visitors from all over come to play on our beaches and ...

The Cape Edgecumbe weather buoy, which records observations and reports them on a website from a station off-shore from Sitka, is back in service. The buoy has a tendency to break free from its anchor ...

The federal government plans to replace two weather buoys next spring off the coast of Central Florida that were knocked offline earlier this year, which will offer mariners and surfers a clearer ...

Buoy 46053: Mid Santa Barbara Channel. "That's Santa Cruz Island in the background," says Bronson. "Great day to work on a buoy." Photo: Collin Bronson Same buoy (46053) with a few Coast Guard ...

As we head into winter, almost all of the buoys that have been bobbing in the Great Lakes during the warmer months have been retrieved and will stay out of the water until springtime. However, the ...