Even if you are not a boater, the buoy may serve you. This visual marker with its gentle fog horn and blinking light welcomes vessels approaching Santa Cruz from offshore. ...

Lost buoy from Dry Tortugas National Park in Southwest Florida was found 4,000 miles away on the coast of ... It’s the second time this year a marker has drifted away from South Florida to ...

In this September 2017 photo, damage to the original Southernmost Buoy marker is seen after Hurricane Irma’s winds and rushing water battered the popular attraction.

In this September 2017 photo, damage to the original Southernmost Buoy marker is seen after Hurricane Irma's winds and rushing water battered the popular attraction.

Much like signs on a roadway, channel markers, or marker buoys, help speedboats, pontoons, jet skiers, and kayakers and canoers delineate areas of safe travel as well as dangerous hazards.

Some officials in New Bedford and Dartmouth say the U.S. Coast Guard should listen to SouthCoast feedback before removing ...

FILE – A channel marker buoy floats in ice on the Delaware River in Philadelphia on an icy day in 2001. The U.S. Coast Guard wants to remove hundreds of buoys along the Northeast coastline to ...

In this September 2017 photo, damage to the original Southernmost Buoy marker is seen after Hurricane Irma’s winds and rushing water battered the popular attraction.

About two dozen buoys off both coasts of Long Island are being considered for removal. The public comment period is open until June 13, Coast Guard and local officials say.

When the Coast Guard decides that it’s going to stop maintaining a buoy, towns can install their own private markers. But that involves “serious logistics,” Land said.

The U.S. Coast Guard is looking at removing some of the buoys, replacing them with “virtual” navigational aids used with GPS, a system that has some boaters concerned about the proposed change.