Seaman Alex Shilling with the safety backup from Seaman Kody Cacal heats a pin with a torch during a heat and beat evolution aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Fir, a 225-foot seagoing buoy tender homeported in Astoria, Ore., during buoy operations on the Columbia River Bar, June 23, 2016. The crew conducted routine maintenance on red buoy 14 at the mouth of the Columbia River. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read.

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