In November 2001, the U.S. Army Engineer District, Mobile, funded the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to deploy a bottom mounted wave gage in 30 ft of water approximately 1 mile offshore of Perdido Pass, AL. On 16 September 2004, Hurricane Ivan made landfall 20 miles west of Perdido Pass as a category 3 hurricane with 120 miles-per-hour maximum winds. The gage was ...