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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."

5 of 262 comments (clear)

  1. w/e by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nothing for you to see here

  2. fr!st p0st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    f00 b3r
    b3r

    b3r

  3. Large Vessels by Limburgher · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are we talking about the carotid and the jugular, or pieces of pottery? I'm confused.

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    You are not the customer.

  4. Nuke by mboverload · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A large nuke can still reach 25 miles inland. Even worse if you drop it a few hundred feet, then you get a tsunami. That would suck, as we now see in southeast asia.

  5. In related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    apprently, Having a lameness filter on slashdot is like having a shit filter on your ass. - seen on /.