Buoy Technology survey USCG Buoy Development Review
Abstract
The research and development efforts by the U.S. Coast Guard since 1962 on floating aids to navigation (ATON) buoys are reviewed. Interviews are conducted with USCG ATON personnel at the headquarters, the R and D Center, the five district (oan) offices, buoy tender crews, industrial facilities and with a limited number of buoy manufacturers in the United States. The USCG buoy development since 1962 is established in the form of twenty seven Project Summaries and supplemented with a comprehensive Buoy Technology Bibliography and a compilation of Buoy Technology Abstracts for most of the buoy hull related references in the Bibliography. The latter two compilations are input into a USCG computer database. On the basis of data obtained from personnel interviews and from the literature reviews, the status of current USCG buoy technology is established and suggestions for further R and D are recorded. This report is the result of Task A of the Buoy Technology Survey . In Task C of the project, these R and D suggestions are to be evaluated to arrive at recommendations for future buoy development. Aid to Navigation, Buoys, Floating Aids, USCG R and D, Articulated Beacons.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA247183
Entities
People
- Fontain M. Johnson
- John C. Daidola
- Nedret S. Basar
- Richard T. Walker