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U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Chris Moore tends a trail line connected to an acoustic mooring as Petty Officer 3rd Class Devin Lloyd hoists the mooring into an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter for return to Kodiak Island, Alaska, April 28, 2011. The mooring, valued at about $20,000, came free of its anchor in Cook Inlet while collecting whale movement data. Lloyd is an aviation maintenance technician assigned to Air Station Kodiak.

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U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Chris Moore tends a trail line connected to an acoustic mooring as Petty Officer 3rd Class Devin Lloyd hoists the mooring into an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter for return to Kodiak Island, Alaska, April 28, 2011. The mooring, valued at about $20,000, came free of its anchor in Cook Inlet while collecting whale movement data. Lloyd is an aviation maintenance technician assigned to Air Station Kodiak.

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