
ATLANTIC OCEAN- (June 19, 2007) Two Coast Guard divers from the Maritime Safety and Security Team prepare to climb aboard Coast Guard Cutter Abbie Burgess, homeported in Rockland, Maine, as fellow divers watch from above. Twelve divers, from MSST units in California, New York, Florida and Massachusetts, conducted archaeological survey dives near Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse, about four miles east of Scituate, Mass. The goal of the operation was create a map the remnants of the original Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse that collapsed into the ocean in 1851, just one year after its construction. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Etta Smith)