  High Res Photo Photo Cut: On Mother’s Day a Coast Guard aids to navigation crew spent the day setting and painting buoys in Manistee Lake. The crew is stationed in Muskegon and is responsible for maintaining aids to navigation between Michigan City, Indiana and Onekama, Michigan. Manistee marked the completion of the 2004 spring buoy run for the Muskegon crew. The Coast Guard maintains over 1,700 buoys across the Great Lakes. Photo: Senior Chief Tom Rau Red-Right-Returning Advisory New Addition Advisories are a new addition to the web site. Advisories are just that, short messages that will address a host of issues, many based on actual Coast Guard cases and those of fellow rescue agencies, offering valuable safety tips and advice. Following is the first advisory of the 2004 season. Boat Smart Advisory 05-11-04, "Red-Right-Returning" Buoys act as sign post marking corridors of safe navigation and nearby hazards to navigation like shoals and underwater obstructions. If boaters following a time proven guide- “red, right, returning” they can safely navigate these corridors of safe navigation by keeping the red buoys and red day markers to their right (starboard) when returning from the Lake, and green ones to their left. The opposite holds true when heading out into the lake. On Saturday, May 9, 2004 a 33-foot power boat ran aground in White Lake, Michigan when the operator passed green buoy number “9” to starboard while heading out to Lake Michigan. The five people aboard were not injured. A Muskegon Coast Guard crew towed the boat into safe water. Three years earlier a boater while heading out from White Lake into Lake Michigan ran aground in a 25-foot boat near the same buoy ( “9”) when he failed to pass it to starboard. He drowned while attempting to free the boat. He was not wearing a life jacket. Group
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