Hello Kym,
You can contact the National Oceanographic Data Center (operated by the
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrtaion) at:
They maintain the Buoy Databases (as well as a whole bunch of really
neat ocean databases). On their home page they also have plenty of names that
you can contact through snail mail.
Don Catanzaro
dgc@cast.uark.edu