{"id":42424,"date":"2015-08-07T17:37:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T22:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=42424"},"modified":"2015-08-15T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T16:55:16","slug":"what-is-that-object-offshore-of-the-boardwalk-indialantic-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/what-is-that-object-offshore-of-the-boardwalk-indialantic-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"We identify the object offshore of the Boardwalk Indialantic Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bouy<\/a>UPDATE photo 8-15-15 It’s a bouy collecting data –>
\nWe drove to the ocean and just off stair access No. 13 was something I couldn’t identify in the ocean, a couple of hundred yards out. It was sticking straight up in the air and looks like the top ten feet of a golden colored mast with a short spar\/yard near the top. It’s not bobbing like a bouy and it’s fairly close in what I\u2019d guess is maybe 25-30 feet of water.
\nUPDATE:<\/strong> 8-15-15 it’s a bouy collecting data: \u00a0\u00a0<\/a> <\/p>\n

A yellow-flagged buoy a half-mile off Nance Park in Indialantic has some scratching their heads. U.S. Coast Guard officials said earlier this week they were unaware of the buoy and were looking into the matter.\u00a0 Turns out it was installed last month by an Indian Harbour Beach engineer, to measure waves, temperature and other data, in real time.\u00a0 \u201cIt measures the actual wave height,\u201d said Tony Cimaglia, owner and principal engineer for TNC Oceanographic, LLC, in Indian Harbour Beach. The buoy is anchored in about 30 feet of water.\u00a0 Surfers, fishermen, forecasters, coastal engineers and anyone else interested could take advantage of the data, he says, through his venture called Check the Waves LLC, which puts the data on a website: www.checkthewaves.com.\u00a0 He\u2019s seeking advertisers for the site and hopes to sell the historical wave data.\u00a0 \u201cYou can get an early warning when the (cold-water) upwelling\u2019s coming through,\u201d Cimaglia said.\u00a0 Cimaglia installed another lower-profile buoy in Jensen Beach, which had been damaged a few times by boat strikes, he said. So he started painting the buoys yellow to make them more visible.\u00a0 Cimaglia hopes to grow his venture and install several more of the buoys in the region.\u00a0 He plans soon to put similar buoys in Cocoa Beach and Daytona Beach.\u00a0 The buoys required approval from state and federal permitting agencies, which Cimaglia said he obtained.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve got the full blessing of the Florida DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) for eight locations already,\u201d Cimaglia said.\u00a0 Contact jwaymer@floridatoday.com<\/p>\n

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