Buoy 17 Answers Back

Buoy 17 was decommissioned in 1998. Its lamp is gone, its battery locker is full of seawater, and yet the receiver hears three tones every eleven seconds.

We record the pattern to tape. Under headphones, the spaces sound almost like breathing. The station log gets a red mark, and Mara asks me not to mention it on air. At midnight, the foghorn interval begins by itself.