The deepest moorings — some deep-ocean buoys are in 6,000 meters of water — use an inverse catenary design, where the lower part of the mooring floats thanks to being made from polypropylene ...

Out of the water each buoy stands 6 metres tall, measures 3 metres in diameter, and weighs 4.5 tonnes. They have anchor cables several kilometres in length to moor it in the deep ocean.

Beijing has defied Tokyo’s repeated demands to remove a buoy set up within Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the East China Sea, leaving the impasse in uncharted waters for about 10 months.

This way we can see how much movement of the buoy is attributed to waves and other ocean processes ... technology for tsunamis focuses on deep waters, but seafloor motion in shallow waters ...

Buoy is a great admirer of the Kraken and pays tribute to the mysterious deep sea creature with unique touch of magic in his hockey hair flow.