TAMPA, Fla. - Lt. j.g. Ben Weber, left, and Lt. Steven Melvin, from Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg's Prevention Department, conduct a routine shipboard inspection aboard the S.S. American Victory Mariners Museum and Memorial, homeported in the Port of Tampa, Feb. 24, 2012.
Coast Guard inspectors need access many narrow and dirty areas of a vessel to ensure a thorough inspection is performed and shipboard hull integrity is intact.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael De Nyse.
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