ATLANTIC OCEAN - Crew members aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Elm prepare an 18,000 buoy to be lifted aboard the deck of the cutter for maintenance, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007.The crew of the Cutter Elm worked one buoy while underway with 45 Coast Guard recruits from Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, N.J., to show them what working aboard a Coast Guard buoy tender is like.Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher D. McLaughlin