A Chinese data buoy has been located by Indian Coast Guard and Para Military Force (PMF) on the shores of Kamrota island in the Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Indian National Centre for Oceanic Information (INCOIS), Hyderabad,
director Dr Satheesh C Shenoi told Express that the Chinese officials
informed INCOIS about the drifting of the buoy towards Indian waters.
The data buoy was deployed at the International waters and has drifted
towards Andaman and Nicobar Islands after breaking free from its
moorings, Shenoi said.
Coast Guard said that based on the information from INCOIS a search
party off Dring Harbour on the North Western side of Kamrota Island
was given the task for locating the yellow colour data buoy.
It was discovered that the buoy landed on beach and the top antenna is
broken and separated, Coast Guard said.
“The approach to the location of the buoy is only from the seaward
side as the area is thickly wooded and has dense forest,” Coast Guard
said.
"Coast Guard is coordinating with National Institute of Ocean
Technology, Chennai to ascertain further details of the buoy," a
statement from the coast guard.
Usually, some of the defence establishments across the world use buoys as underwater listening posts to detect the movement of submarines. They are designed to detect acoustic signals of submarines. Usually, they are released at a high or low altitude and once they enter the water, the sea actiates the battery and a hydrophone drops on a thin wire to a preset depth below the floating buoy. The hydrophone can be deployed to a depth of 100 fathoms. The data is then relayed back to the aircraft, sources revealed.
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