What is the strangest thing you have found attached to a buoy?

Oct 3 2012 No Comments

 

The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bristol Bay. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard.

Hundreds of U.S. Coast Guard fans on Facebook had the opportunity to ask Petty Officer 1st Class William Vaughn about what it’s like tending buoys on the Great Lakes.

What is the strangest thing he found attached to a buoy? How does he deal with the smell? Does he still like seafood? Find out here.

Vaughn serves aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bristol Bay, a 140-foot icebreaking tug based in Detroit that opens and maintains icebound shipping lanes in the Great Lakes.

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