![]() ![]() Both Germany and the United States built buoys during World War II that could transmit measurements of air temperature, water temperature, wind speed, and sea state to shore stations. The idea of using buoys instead of moored ships to gather weather observations is nearly a century old. Data buoys have been with us for decades, but the explosion in electronic sensors and digital communications of the past 30 years has accelerated their development - and their usefulness to many people, including recreational boaters. ![]() If digital technology can bring us "virtual" aids to navigation, it's no surprise that those ones and zeros can also give us real buoys that send us all sorts of useful information about the waters in which they float they can even talk to us. ![]()
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