Buoy tenders are ships that maintain buoys in harb...  ...the open sea to serve as aids to navigation. The US Coast Guard maintains several classes of buoy tenders, which...  ...deploying them is physically demanding work. The coasties occasionally compete against each other in the ke...  ...and drive red hot ri...

Writing out HELP or SOS while stranded on a desert...  ...a cliche that it has its own TV Tropes page. The US Coast Guard says that it actually happened when, on Tuesday,...  ...ith an outboard motor, reported them missing, the Coast Guard launched a search and rescue mission...

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