Seaman Charles Padroni and Seaman Brendan Kelly prepare a NOAA weather buoy to be hoisted to another position on an aids-to-navigation barge attached to the Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay, a 140-foot ice-breaking tug, while working in Lake Erie, Nov. 26, 2012. The crew of the Bristol Bay is removing navigational buoys in Lake Erie as part of the 9th Coast Guard District's annual Operation Fall Retrieve, which is designed to limit damage to navigational aids on the Great Lakes during the winter months. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Levi Read.