Petty Officer 2nd Class Manuel Izquierdo, an aviation maintenance technician with Air Station Kodiak (left), acts as a safety observer while Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Kelly, also an aviation maintenance technician with Air Station Kodiak (right), prepares to drop a self locating data marker buoy from the ramp of a Kodiak-based HC-130 Hercules airplane airborne over the Gulf of Alaska April 4, 2012. The buoy will allow the Coast Guard to continue to track the unmanned and unlit Japanese fishing vessel Ryou-un Maru as it drifts northwest.
<dl><dd>Unit: U.S. Coast Guard District 17 PADET Kodiak</dd>
<dd>DVIDS Tags: Alaska; District 17; Fukushima; derelict fishing vessel; hazard to navigation; marine debris; Ryou-un Maru; tsnumai</dd></dl>
Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Muir
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