Petty Officer 2nd Class Adrian Ortegon moves cards along the Vessel Traffic Service's manual board, which is used to track vessels while the Automatic Identification System is inactivated due to maintenance, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, at Sector Houston-Galveston. The Coast Guard provides these services in major ports throughout the United States as a way of communicating to various mariners about port conditions that would affect safe transit in and out of ports and waterways. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jennifer Nease.

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