Fireman Kalani Coria, from Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay in Garibaldi, Ore., tends a fender as Seaman Eric Ostrander, a minor aids technician from Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team Astoria, waits on Tillamook Bay Entrance Lighted Bell Buoy 1 as the 47-foot Motor Life Boat crew comes alongside to pick him up, Feb. 24, 2017.
The waters of the United States and its territories are marked to assist navigation using a system that uses an arrangement of colors, shapes, numbers and light characteristics to mark navigable channels, waterways and adjacent obstructions.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Alan Dumville.