SAN PEDRO, Calif.-Coast Guard Cutter George Cobb, working with technicians from the National Data Buoy Center/NOAA have repaired several key weather-data buoys and are now on station transmitting weather and sea-state data, Nov. 27, 2012. The local fishing fleet, freighter and tankers, military vessels and even surfers rely heavily on the data provided by these and many other buoys in order to make informed decisions on where and when to travel at sea. The data buoys are used to measure and transmit air and sea temperatures, wind speed and direction, wave height, direction and period, as well as barometric pressure changes. U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Lt. Collin Bronson
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