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Coast Guard nears completion of seasonal buoy replacement operation throughout Great Lakes
CLEVELAND — The Coast Guard is nearing completion of the mission to replace seasonal aids to navigation this week throughout the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway. Operation Spring Restore, an annual mission to verify and replace 1,281 aids to navigation throughout the Great Lakes region, is nearly 80% complete and almost four weeks ahead of schedule, due to an unusually light 2011/2012 ice season. The mission began on March 13. Returning ATON to their proper stations … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard removes buoys from national seashore
WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast Guard removed the last of seven navigational aids from the Cape Lookout National Seashore Thursday afternoon. The buoys broke free from their moorings and washed ashore during heavy weather. Their removal will help preserve the nesting grounds of migratory birds that frequent this area, including the federally-protected Piping Plover. Removing the buoys required a coordinated effort by the Coast Guard, National Park Service, Federal Wildlife Service and a local contractor over a … Read entire article »
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Wisconsin-based Coast Guard crew prepares for spring buoy operations
STURGEON BAY, Wis. — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Mobile Bay, a 140-foot ice-breaking tug homeported here, is scheduled to begin returning seasonal buoys to waters in the Bay of Green Bay and near the outer Door Peninsula Monday. Mobile Bay is one of two 140-foot ice-breaking tugs operating in the Great Lakes equipped with a 120-foot aids-to-navigation barge. After spending the winter months breaking ice in support of Operation Taconite, the crew of the … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard replacing seasonal aids to navigation throughout Great Lakes
CLEVELAND — The 9th Coast Guard District began restoring seasonal Aids to Navigation throughout the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway March 13, 2012, following the resumption of the shipping season. Operation Spring Restore involves the verification and placement of more than 1,270 ATON, including lighted and unlighted buoys, with an expected completion date of May 28, 2012. Roughly half of the aids throughout the Great Lakes region are taken out of service during the winter months during Operation … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard announces change to how mariners activate radio-controlled fog signals
CLEVELAND — The Coast Guard announced today a change to the marine radio frequency that mariners must use to activate fog signals on navigable waterways of the Great Lakes. Until the change takes effect on July 1, mariners are advised to use both the new and the old frequency. Since the 1990s, mariners encountering decreased visibility have been able to activate fog signals on certain aids-to-navigation by tuning their marine radios to VHF-FM channel 79A (156.975 MHz) … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard warns of damaged navigation marker
SAN DIEGO – The U.S. Coast Guard is warning mariners transiting in San Diego Bay that an aid to navigation located near the west end of Shelter Island was damaged in an allision and could pose a hazard to navigation. Shelter Island West End Light 4, LLNR-1595, was struck sometime before Wednesday afternoon, shifting the day board portion of the aid out of position and bending a section of the ladder perpendicular to the aid near … Read entire article »
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