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Article: Weather buoy returns to coast.(Weather)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2002
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Byline: The Register-Guard
The Stonewall Banks buoy, which broke its mooring chain in a storm on Nov. 28 and drifted 60 miles north of Newport, has been recovered, repaired and is scheduled to be redeployed off the central Oregon coast this week.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce, made the announcement Monday.
NOAA officials said the 3-meter round buoy will be moored about 20 miles offshore, as weather permits, with help from the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Cowslip.
They said efforts to recover the buoy began Nov. 29 after the mooring chain broke 35 feet below the buoy.