Coping With Complexity: Ocean Buoys
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 5
- Summary
- COI synopsis: This issue looks at a few new ways of managing the increasingly complex problems of modern life. Computer simulations, for instance, show how to cope with the complexity of planning a modern airport and designing a motorway: but coping with complexity doesn’t always involve computers... Charting the almost infinite complexity of the oceans’ tides and currents is important for shipping - and even important for dealing with pollution. A new type of drogue-buoy uses existing navigation systems to radio its position continuously back to shore as it floats freely in the open sea.
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Communications; Science and technology; Marine
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
COI Microfilm Roll 51 [BFI National Archive]
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/151
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Editor
- Peter Greenaway
- Cutter
- Peter Greenaway
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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How to cite this record
'Coping With Complexity: Ocean Buoys', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 151. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/325630 (Accessed 26 Dec 2025)