NOAA Replacing Key Buoy at Port Orford, Ore.
Fishermen familiar with the southern Oregon Coast have depended on a buoy about 17 miles off the coast of Port Orford for years. It forecasts key wind and wave information on which fishermen depend, particularly during winter, when southwest storms generate large swells during the Dungeness crab season.
But buoy 46015 is notorious for going off station. Sometimes storms have ripped it from its mooring, other times its disappearance remains a mystery.
But last year, it stopped transmitting on November 16, roughly 15 hours after it was re-deployed. The buoy stopped...
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