Buoy Blog Post

           Buoys are all over the world. If you do not know what buoys are, they are little things in the water which help boatman determine where there is shallow water, so they avoid that area. Or, where the water is too deep and dangerous to stop at. There is a site which tells you exactly where every single one of the buoys are located. This is the link.
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

   As we can see on the site, the most buoys are located in the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean, To be more specific around America.  They are probably there because America is one of the most populated continents, so there are a lot of boats. Also, the depth in the oceans change rapidly.

   There are a lot of them near Great Britain. However, they are mostly oil buoys.

Tsunami warning System

       Tsunamis are a bad happening. Many people get killed in it and it is always a great loss. If you don't know what a tsunami is, it is a large wave which is caused by an underwater earthquake. It is caused because the shock that the water gets forms a large wave. They mostly occur in the countries which border the oceans, especially the Pacific Ocean. The two major tsunamis which happened lately are the one in Japan that happened last year and Katrina, a 2004 earthquake and tsunami which happened in Thailand. Both took out at least 200 people. It is a horrible situation and there is a low chance of surviving  if you are in one.


         Many houses are destroyed. Not only houses, everything is. That costs a lot of money, so the whole country falls into the crisis trying to collect all the money needed to rebuild the place.

          Now, you might be wandering how do you know if a tsunami is coming. There are a couple of ways. The main way is if you are close to a shore, and an earthquake happens, it is very likely for a tsunami to happen. Of course, an alarm goes on as well. Another way to predict that an earthquake is happening is if you are a the beach and you notice the water pulling back, you should consider running for your life. But how do you know if you are underwater? There is a way. If you see that the land underneath you starts shaking, or you feel it, there might be a tidal wave happening above you.



         Most of these warning systems are helpful, but in some cases they are not so accurate. For example, I mentioned that you can notice the water withdrawing, which means that there is going to be a tsunami most likely, But, there is one problem, you do not know how fast you need to run, or in other words, you don't know how much time is going to pass until the wave arrives.