{"id":96789,"date":"2019-05-17T16:27:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T02:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=96789"},"modified":"2020-01-09T12:49:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T22:49:42","slug":"saipan-wave-buoy-back-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/17\/saipan-wave-buoy-back-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovered wave buoy back providing critical data for ocean users"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_96812\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96812\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-pacioos-saipan-buoy.jpg\" alt=\"PacIOOS crew redeplay a wave buoy to sea.\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-pacioos-saipan-buoy.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-pacioos-saipan-buoy-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-pacioos-saipan-buoy-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr title=\"Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System\">PacIOOS<\/abbr> redeployed its wave buoy off Tanapag, Saipan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On May 10, 2019, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacioos.hawaii.edu\/\">Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System<\/a> (<abbr>PacIOOS<\/abbr>) based at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/\">School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a> redeployed its wave buoy outside of Tanapag, Saipan, after it broke free from its mooring during Super Typhoon Yutu in October 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The wave buoy was adrift for more than six weeks. In December 2018, approximately 800 nautical miles into the Philippine Sea, the <abbr title=\"United States\">U.S.<\/abbr> Coast Guard Cutter Sequoia, stationed in Guam, recovered the buoy in challenging ocean conditions while patrolling the high seas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <em>¶«¾«Ó°Òµ News<\/em> story:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/04\/pacioos-wave-buoy-recovered\/\"><abbr>PacIOOS<\/abbr> wave buoy recovered after drifting 800 nautical miles<\/a>, February 4, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The yellow wave buoy provides valuable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacioos.hawaii.edu\/waves\/buoy-tanapag\/\">wave<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacioos.hawaii.edu\/water\/buoy-tanapag\/\">ocean<\/a> information. Data on wave height, direction and period, as well as sea surface temperature, are transmitted in real-time and are publicly available online.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are so grateful for the <abbr>U.S.<\/abbr> Coast Guard\u2019s support and effort to recover the drifting wave buoy. Without their partnership, we would have lost this important ocean observing instrument,&rdquo; said <abbr>PacIOOS<\/abbr> Director <strong>Melissa Iwamoto<\/strong>. &ldquo;The buoy is now back on station and we are excited to continue to provide high-quality data to our stakeholders in Saipan and the region.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Tanapag wave buoy is one of three <abbr>PacIOOS<\/abbr> wave buoys in the Mariana Islands; the other two are located off Ritidian Point and Ipan in Guam. Wave buoy data benefit a large variety of ocean users, agency officials and community members to make safe decisions. Fishermen, surfers, commercial tour operators and many others regularly check the data to get a better understanding of the ocean conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacioos.hawaii.edu\/pacioos-updates\/tanapag-wave-buoy-redeployment-2019\/\">PacIOOS website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/wave-buoy\/\">Learn more about the other <abbr>PacIOOS<\/abbr> wave buoys deployed around the Pacific.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Fiona Langenberger<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System redeployed its wave buoy outside of Tanapag, Saipan, more than seven months after it broke free from its mooring during Super Typhoon Yutu in October 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1363,238,92,9,1192],"class_list":["post-96789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-manoa-research","tag-pacific-islands-ocean-observing-system","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-uh-manoa","tag-wave-buoy","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96789"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109032,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96789\/revisions\/109032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}