Coast Guard members from Aids to Navigation Team Puget Sound in Seattle, Coast Guard Cutter Henry Blake, a 175-foot coastal buoy tender homeported in Everett, Wash., and Air Station Astoria, Ore., work in conjunction to fill in the concrete foundation for a new Ewing Island Danger Daybeacon near Sucia Island in Puget Sound, May 19, 2015.
Multiple teams made up of members from each unit worked together to transport and fill cement into the foundations form.
U.S. Coast Guard video edited by Petty Officer 3rd Class Katelyn Shearer and courtesy Air Station Astoria and Aids to Navigation Team Puget Sound.
SEATTLE — Coast Guard members from Aids to Navigation Team Puget Sound in Seattle, Coast Guard Cutter Henry Blake, a 175-foot coastal buoy tender homeported in Everett, and Air Station Astoria, Oregon, worked together over the course of three days to construct the new cement foundation for the Ewing Island Reef Danger Daybeacon near Sucia Island, May 18 to 20.
Members broke up into several teams to construct the form for the foundation and coordinate transportation of the cement via an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew.
The structure was built near the southeastern edge of the reef, offshore of Sucia Island in the San Juan Islands and will replace the floating aid to navigation Ewing Island Reef Danger Buoy.
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