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Coast Guard to Track Ships Using Buoys

Posted by michael on from the feeling-safer-already dept.

nomrniceguy writes "The Coast Guard plans to use dozens of buoys off the U.S. coast to extend the reach of a security system that monitors large vessels heading in and out of ports. The buoys are intended to extend the network's reach -- the Guard now receives the automated data only when a vessel is within about 25 miles of a port. The floating transmitters will relay the information from hundreds of miles off shore, from the middle of Lake Superior and off coastlines from Alaska to Maine."

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  1. What happens when our enemies... by Jaidon · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...train flocks of seagulls to crap all over the transmitters?

    1. Re:What happens when our enemies... by BradleyUffner · · Score: 5, Funny
      "...train flocks of seagulls to crap all over the transmitters?"

      Ground to Seagull Missiles.
    2. Re:What happens when our enemies... by Jaidon · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well since both produce the same thing...I guess I really doesn't matter.

  2. Re:Using bouys? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's just float CowbuoyNeal and see what he detects...

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  3. Re:Using bouys? by Zocalo · · Score: 4, Funny

    CowbuoyNeal is a float? Somehow I'd always pictured him as a char...

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  4. Re:Nuke by DaHat · · Score: 3, Funny
    And now you see part of the reason I so love living here in South Dakota.

    Lets go through the list of disasters we don't have on the east side of the state, nor have any risk of.
    1. Tsunami... No large volumes of water
    2. Earth Quakes... No local tectonic plates
    3. Racial Riots... Not anymore (it's been over 100 years since the last rebellion that was put down

    4. Volcano... See #2
    5. General Flooding... not uncommon, but rarely lethal


    6. I will admit though... we do live in fear of the day or former governor gets behind the wheel again.
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  5. We're all on the same side here... by sczimme · · Score: 5, Funny


    Let's not turn this into buoys vs. gulls.

    /so sorry

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