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Buoy In Gulf Of Mexico Detects Very High Water Temperature

John Liang
By John Liang

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CDIP Buoy
CDIP Buoy

A buoy floating in the Gulf of Mexico off the US coast of Louisiana recently detected a water temperature reading of 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit).

The buoy was deployed by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Coastal Data Information Program.

The CDIP 256 buoy’s reading was “the warmest detected sea-surface temperature in the history of CDIP,” according to Scripps.

The data can be viewed here.

John Liang
John Lianghttps://www.deeperblue.com/
John Liang is the News Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first got the diving bug while in High School in Cairo, Egypt, where he earned his PADI Open Water Diver certification in the Red Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, among white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, and other places including a pool in Las Vegas helping to break the world record for the largest underwater press conference.

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