New Generation Wave Bouys

Sponge Bob

The M2 Bouy in the Irish Sea was replaced with a next generation jobbie in late October . It produces more data , particularly seastate data, than the others but it looks a tad flimsy to me .




M1 was horsed out to a new location called M6 once Mace Head came online . They are thinking of replacing it "when resources allow" .

In other words it does not exist and may never exist again.



Video of M2 Deployment in October.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFV7_akpGGI

GSF

Just curious as to whether there is anything further out in the Atlantic than M6. Are there any in the mid Atlantic and who maintains them if there are?

cian1500ww

GSF wrote: »

Just curious as to whether there is anything further out in the Atlantic than M6. Are there any in the mid Atlantic and who maintains them if there are?

I think there's some buoys owned by the UK out further.

GSF

cian1500ww wrote: »

I think there's some buoys owned by the UK out further.

Found this interesting site http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

There is nothing really in the middle of the Atlantic unlike the Pacific which is curious

cian1500ww

GSF wrote: »

Found this interesting site http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

There is nothing really in the middle of the Atlantic unlike the Pacific which is curious

There is a couple of UK buoys out further though: http://www.irelandsweather.com/wxbuoys.php