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    Coast Guard Cutter Willow completes aids to navigation mission in Puerto Rico [Image 2 of 3]

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    A buoy tender vessel is engaged in buoy maintenance operations, with crew members handling a large green navigational buoy that has been recovered onto the deck. The buoy shows significant marine growth, rust, and barnacle accumulation, indicating it had been deployed in water for an extended period. Multiple crew members wearing hard hats and safety vests are working around the buoy and associated heavy chain mooring equipment.

    SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

    10.16.2022

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    U.S. Coast Guard PADET San Juan

    Petty Officer 2nd Class Charles C. Gray, Coast Guard Cutter Willow buoy deck supervisor (wearing yellow safety hardhat in photo), brings Bahia de San Juan Lighted Buoy 7 across Willow’s deck for a mooring and aid inspection Oct. 15, 2022. During Willow’s eight-day visit to Puerto Rico, crewmembers serviced 23 aids to navigation and performed eight buoy hull reliefs around island ports and navigable waters in Arecibo, Culebra, Guanica, Guayanilla, Ponce, San Juan, Tallaboa, and Vieques. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

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    Date Taken: 10.16.2022
    Date Posted: 10.18.2022 11:28
    Photo ID: 7468462
    VIRIN: 221015-G-G0107-1001
    Resolution: 2592x1728
    Size: 1.76 MB
    Location: SAN JUAN, PR
    Web Views: 168
    Downloads: 6

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    A large red navigational buoy is being deployed or recovered by a vessel, suspended by crane rigging over the ship's deck near the water. Several crew members are visible on deck, some wearing hard hats, overseeing the operation. The ship appears to be a buoy tender or aids-to-navigation vessel equipped with heavy lifting equipment, chains, and winches.
    A buoy tender vessel is engaged in buoy maintenance operations, with crew members handling a large green navigational buoy that has been recovered onto the deck. The buoy shows significant marine growth, rust, and barnacle accumulation, indicating it had been deployed in water for an extended period. Multiple crew members wearing hard hats and safety vests are working around the buoy and associated heavy chain mooring equipment.
    A panoramic coastal view featuring a historic stone fortification perched on a grassy cliff overlooking vivid turquoise-blue ocean waters. A vessel is visible in the bay to the left, and a row of white bollards lines a pathway along the cliff edge. The scene is consistent with the appearance of Castillo San Felipe del Morro (El Morro) in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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