The deck force aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Fir, a 225-foot seagoing buoy tender homeported in Astoria, Ore., rigs the 35-foot tall 9-foot wide buoy 14 to be lifted and pulled from the Columbia River near Ilwaco, Wash., June 23, 2016.
The crew of the Fir maintains 60 percent of the largest buoys in the Coast Guard that match the size of buoy 14.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read.