Owned and maintained by National Data Buoy Center C-MAN Station MARS payload 29.857 N 81.265 W (29°51'24" N 81°15'54" W)
Site elevation: 8.8 m above mean sea level Air temp height: 7.6 m above site elevation Anemometer height: 7.6 m above site elevation Barometer elevation: 8.8 m above mean sea level Sea temp depth: 2 m below MLLW
Right whales are active off FL from November to April. Speed restrictions of 10 knots apply to vessels 65 feet or greater in specific areas and times along the U.S. East Coast. It is illegal to approach right whales within 500 yards. To learn more about right whales and rules protecting them, go to: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/shipstrike.
Note that the payload types and the station locations occasionally change.
Please refer to the NDBC data inventory
for the data history of each station.