The Coast Guard maintains about 50,000 aids to navigation, including beacons, buoys, and lighthouses, and I got a firsthand look at how crews make them last.
Deep cleaning and frequent checks are vital to making them last, and I got a firsthand look at how crews do that.The process starts with loading the 1,200-pound buoy onto the deck, using a large A-frame attached to the boat.
“This whole evolution is set up to where everything can fail, and no one gets hurt,” a crew member told us. The crew on deck calls out every adjustment to the A-frame operator. He was in the pilothouse, and his view of the chain was often blocked by the massive buoy. While the crew was working on deck, the captain and rest of the crew focused on keeping the boat in place so it can be replaced in exactly the same position.
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