Coast Guard Authorizes Second Buoy Emplacement

The Caribbean Integrated Coastal Ocean Observing System CarICOOS has received Coast Guard authorization to deploy a data buoy off Escambrón beach with the mission of providing data on winds, waves and currents to local stakeholders including the port of San Juan and, more generally the island’s Atlantic coast. This new CarICOOS Data Buoy designated “B” follows on the successful deployment and operation of CarICOOS Data Buoy “A” to the southeast of Caja de Muertos serving the port of Ponce and Caribbean coast. CarICOOS Data Buoys are financed by the NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System, constructed by the University of Maine buoy group and operated jointly by U. Maine and researchers from the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez campus.