GULFPORT, Miss. - Some of the meteorology data collection devices that help develop weather forecasts are built in South Mississippi. A crew with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) offloaded data-collecting buoys here April 4 and are now preparing for the next mission. Joe Emberess, captain of the Kolt Levi vessel, is contracted by NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). It just returned from collecting buoys from the Gulf of Mexico. The buoys are built at Stennis Space Center. More than 240 are deployed in waters across the globe. The Kolt Levi crew will get the equipment off the boat and sent to Stennis for repair and service. New equipment will be placed back on the boat and by April 6, the vessel will be heading yo the Caribbean and San Juan, Puerto Rico,” said NDBC director Dr. William Burnett. The buoys are spread out from the Atlantic to the western Pacific off the coast of Japan. "There’s not a nation in the world that can do what we do," he said. The data this high-tech equipment collects is used by the very ships that deploy and service the buoys. (WLOX 04/04/23) NOAA crew unloading data buoys, preparing for next trip (wdam.com)
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