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CGC Alder retreives NOAA buoy's before Lake Superior freeze over 

PORTAGE, Mich. - Seaman Craig Senczyszyn, of Coast Guard Cutter Alder, grips down a NOAA buoy to the deck in western Lake Superior, Nov. 14, 2008. CGC Alder is part of Operation Fall Retrieve, which switches all buoys in the Great Lakes with more durable ice buoys before the winter freezes the Lakes. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/ Petty Officer 3rd Class William B. Mitchell)

 PORTAGE, Mich. - Seaman Craig Senczyszyn, of Coast Guard Cutter Alder, grips down a NOAA buoy to the deck in western Lake Superior, Nov. 14, 2008. CGC Alder is part of Operation Fall Retrieve, which switches all buoys in the Great Lakes with more durable ice buoys before the winter freezes the Lakes. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/ Petty Officer 3rd Class William B. Mitchell)

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