Adrift: the Multiple Faults in the SHOA Tsunami Detector Buoys

The crew of the ship “Cape de Hornos” saw in the high seas, after ten hours of navigation, the instrument they were looking for desperately. It was 20:30 on March 26, 2021. Already at night and with adverse weather conditions, the sailors found, floating in the blackness of the sea, one of the five DART buoys (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) that the Navy maintains deployed off the coast of Chile. As a result of a court, the obje…