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Apr 20th, 2012 · Comments Off on 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...
Mar 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off on 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...
Nov 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Duluth-based Coast Guard Cutter Alder assumes role of Chicago’s “Christmas Ship”
CLEVELAND — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Alder, acting as the “Christmas Ship,” departed Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., this morning and is scheduled to arrive at Chicago’s Navy Pier at 8:30 a.m. Friday for an annual event to distribute Christmas trees to deserving families on Saturday.
In conjunction with seasonal buoy retrieval operations in Lake Michigan, the crew of Alder will support the...
Nov 10th, 2010 · Comments Off on Coast Guard begins nation’s largest buoy retrieval operation
USCG file photoCLEVELAND – In anticipation of the coming ice season and to ensure the safety of vessels transiting the Great Lakes Basin, the Ninth Coast Guard District has begun its annual retrieval of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway System seasonal aids to navigation, the largest domestic aids to navigation recovery operation in the United States.
Operation Fall Retrieve, which includes...
Sep 30th, 2010 · Comments Off on Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin based Cutter to return home after successful inspection
CLEVELAND – The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mobile Bay is scheduled to return to its homeport of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., this week after completing a required Ready for Operations inspection here.
The three-day RFO is designed to ensure that assigned personnel are properly trained, qualified, certified and outfitted to perform the Coast Guard’s missions safely and effectively.
“It was a very...
Oct 20th, 2009 · Comments Off on Coast Guard begins Operation Fall Retrieve
CLEVELAND – The Ninth Coast Guard District has begun its annual retrieval of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway System seasonal aids to navigation, the largest domestic buoy recovery operation in the United States.
