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We're from ANT Detroit. We work everywhere from the Saint Claire River all the way down to western Lake Erie servicing all the aids that the larger cutter can't get to.
Right now we're in our commissioning season so we are, uh, taking our buoys that were in for the ice season for winter and swapping them out with the normal lighted buoys that go in their place.
If we don't swap them out, the normal, uh, lighted buoys that are out there, if they were to go through a winter you would have the ice coming through and ripping the buoys apart
tearing the lights off of them. So what we do is we put in some buoys that can actually withstand the ice. They're shaped to get pushed up onto the ice.
Today we're going to work the, uh, the upbound channel in the St. Marys River and we're going to be working some Canadian buoys, we have a partnership with them.
These are our five elevens. Uh, this is what we're putting in the water right now. These are a lot better for the mariners because they get carmanahs on top, which are lighted,
and it lets the mariner know where they're at. This is what goes in during the winter because, uh, these are expendable as opposed to the five eleven that's pretty expensive.
But these handle a lot better in the ice and we get a lot of ice up here. Right now we're pulling these out and putting five elevens in.
The commercial shipping that happens here in this area, it's very heavy so those guys need those aids to be able to take those large ships in and out of here
to, you know, come here and get coal and whatever purposes they have for offloading and onloading stuff.