Coast Guard, NOAA launch 'crucial' new weather buoy at Alaska's Hinchinnrook Entrance

摘要

Smashing through 15-foot swells on a dark December morning, the crew aboard U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sycamore steamed toward the Hinchinbrook Entrance in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Their attempts to launch a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather buoy days earlier had been called off due to rough seas. With only fleeting windows of favorable conditions in the forecast, the requisite tenacity of the crew would be called upon again today.