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Article: Cruise-ship season opens amid high security Armed Caost Guard officers escort liner into Bar Harbor
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- May 28, 2002
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BAR HARBOR - The cruise ship Rotterdam was not easy to spot Monday
morning in the fog off Mount Desert Island, but that didn't stop
Stacey Guild from trying.
Guild, a boat-master with the Coast Guard in Southwest Harbor,
said she didn't mind getting up earlier than usual to meet the 750-
foot vessel as it approached Bar Harbor for a daylong visit.
"I love watching the sun come up over the water," Guild said as
she scanned the misty horizon for the luxury ocean liner and held a
cup of coffee. "I'd much rather be on the water at 4 o'clock in the
morning than at 1 o'clock in the morning."
Guild and four other members of the Coast Guard, armed with a
machine gun and each carrying a 9-mm pistol, ...