DATE: June 14, 2005 3:13:00 PM AKDT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 14, 2005, 3 p.m. AST - Coast Guard cutter Hickory, crew visits Kodiak - 17th District Office of Public Affairs photo
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KODIAK, Alaska- The Coast Guard cutter Hickory’s crew from Homer moors next to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fisheries survey vessel, the Oscar Dyson, here for a short stay. The Oscar Dyson is one of the most technologically advanced fisheries survey vessels in the world. Hickory's crew retrieved a NOAA buoy set to collect weather information in a remote area. Hickory’s crew and the crew of its sister ship, Cutter SPAR, from Kodiak, share the duties of search and rescue, homeland security, maintaining aids to navigation and maritime law enforcement in Cook Inlet, along the Kenai Peninsula and Gulf of Alaska. (Official Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Christopher D. McLaughlin)
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