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Old 22nd Mar 2014, 19:56
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Captain Radar....
 
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It's not a sonobuoy

They aren't deploying sonobuoys in these pictures. They are self locating datum marker buoys. They are designed to drift with the current and pass their position so that surface drift due to current can be measured.
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