Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew West | U.S. Coast Guard East | 01.27.2026
A Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team Baltimore 49-foot Buoy Stern Loading (BUSL) boat departs the pier to break ice in Curtis Creek, Maryland, January 27, 2026. The unit’s main mission is to ensure the marine transportation mission in the Chesapeake and its tributaries are safely marked. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew West)...
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew West | U.S. Coast Guard East | 01.27.2026
Fireman Drew Harris prepares to conduct ice breaking operations aboard a Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team Baltimore 49-foot Buoy Stern Loading (BUSL) boat in Curtis Creek, Maryland, January 27, 2026. The purpose of the operation was to make the creek navigable for Coast Guard assets. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew West)...
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Lauofo | U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes | 01.24.2026
Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay (WTGB 102) arrives alongside a buoy on Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania, Jan. 24, 2026. This navigational hazard was one of several causing restrictions to commercial vessels transiting the Great Lakes en route to deliver essential goods such as road salt and iron ore. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Nolan)...
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Lauofo | U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes | 12.08.2025
Coast Guard Seaman Keegan Rockwood, assigned to Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay (WTGB 102), throws a heaving line overboard to a shipmate on the pier while mooring up on the Detroit River in Amherstburg, Ontario, Dec. 8, 2025. The Bristol Bay was conducting buoy operations in support of Operation Fall Retrieve, a Great Lakes District initiative to remove navigational aids and replace them with......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Avery Tibbets | U.S. Coast Guard Oceania | 09.24.2025
U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Valentin Leon, an electrician's mate assigned to Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team Honolulu, stands atop a navigational aid tower near Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, Sept. 24, 2025. ANT Honolulu members conducted battery recharges, light replacements, and dayboard replacements on navigational aids throughout the Big Island. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Avery Tibbets | U.S. Coast Guard Oceania | 09.24.2025
U.S. Coast Guardsmen assigned to Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team Honolulu conduct maintenance on a navigational aid near Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, Sept. 24, 2025. ANT Honolulu members traveled to the Big Island to service navigational aids and safeguard the flow of maritime commerce. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Avery Tibbets)...
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Avery Tibbets | U.S. Coast Guard Oceania | 09.22.2025
U.S. Coast Guardsmen assigned to Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team Honolulu conduct electrical maintenance on a navigational aid on the Big Island Sept. 22, 2025. ANT Honolulu personnel are responsible for the maintenance of over 99 navigational aids throughout the Hawaiian Islands. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Avery Tibbets)...
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Richard Uranga | U.S. Coast Guard PADET Los Angeles | 09.05.2025
Coast Guard crew members hoist a damaged buoy aboard the deck of the Coast Guard Cutter George Cobb (WLM 564), off the coast of San Pedro, California, Sept. 5, 2025. The crew of the George Cobb went underway to replace a damaged navigation buoy, which was half-submerged after taking on water. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Richard B. Uranga)...
