New CDIP Wave Buoy Inshore W. Santa Cruz

    There was an article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, 12/8/20 about a new CDIP wave-monitoring buoy located about a mile south of the intersection of Columbia St. and West  Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz.  By my calculation from my Fish-n-Map Co GG/MntryBay/etc chart (the one they sell at bait shops), it's in 60-70 FOW south of the blocky condo buildings just west of Steamer's and east of Mitchell's Cove. If you look at that chart, Columbia St. is just to the east of circular streets obvious on the chart and known locally, not surprisingly,  as "The Circles".  The buoy is close to, or right at, the "167" GPS location marked with a red dot on the chart.*
    Following the link given in the article,       cdip.ucsd.edu/m/products/?stn=254pl    , you'll find some very interesting charts of wave direction, heights and periods, currents, etc.. The data is updated every half hour and is plotted on a chart that compares it to a line showing the projected data.
     These CDIP buoys are located all along California's coast, as you probably already knew, and as I found out when I searched for Santa Cruz and wound up at a buoy near Santa Cruz Island in SoCal.
      I turned off a 65 year old cowboy movie starring Kirk Douglas to research this, so I hope you enjoy it.  I mean this buoy stuff, but the movie was kind of fun too. For Covid stay-at-home fare, that is.

*CDIP gives the coordinates as 36.93443/122.03397, and using the Fed's converter,
I came up with 36deg56min3.9474sec/122deg2min2.2914sec

Thanks for sharing Fuzzy, I just bookmarked the site. The graphs even show a prediction line for wave height/direction/period for a few days into the future.

Plugging those coordinates in to Google Maps gives you this spot:

Great info, and it's good to have another buoy landmark (watermark?)...

Does anybody know if this buoy is still active? I've been using this link, and it doesn't seem to work this afternoon:

http://cdip.ucsd.edu/themes/cdip/?d2=p70:s:254

I'd found it to be the best source of info on swell conditions.

I get the same message: "not found". There are a lot of sub-menus on the CDIP site, I only looked at a few and didn't find any info about why it's not up and running, but it could well be buried in all that info.   There is a "contact us" link at the bottom of each page that you might want to try.

Works for me now (3:57pm 10/1)

Works for me now (3:57pm 10/1)

Yes, it's back now. I actually cruised by it today on my AI just to make sure it was still there...