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Caitllin Meadows, a member of a science party aboard

Caitllin Meadows, a member of a science party aboard

Caitllin Meadows, a member of a science party aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, sifts through a sediment sample while underway in the Arctic, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Meadows was picking through the sample, w... More

Crewmen walk across the ice toward the US Coast Guard icebreaker USCGC POLAR STAR (WAGB 10). The POLAR STAR, first Coast Guard icebreaker to circumnavigate the Antarctic continent, has paused during its journey to give crewmen "ice-liberty"

Crewmen walk across the ice toward the US Coast Guard icebreaker USCGC...

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Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420-foot polar icebreaker

Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420-foot polar icebreaker

Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420-foot polar icebreaker homeported in Seattle, meets two tugboats in Puget Sound, Nov. 5, 2013. Commissioned in 1999, CGC Healy acts as a research platform for scientists in the Ar... More

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a polar

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a polar

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a polar icebreaker, on a National Science Foundation-funded research mission rescued a man aboard a 36-foot sailboat trapped in Arctic ice approximately 40 miles northe... More

Alvin Mar, a systems engineer for Lockheed-Martin,

Alvin Mar, a systems engineer for Lockheed-Martin,

Alvin Mar, a systems engineer for Lockheed-Martin, tests a UHF satellite communications antenna in preparation for a journey to the Arctic Circle aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy in Seward, Alaska, Aug. 6, 2... More

Coast Guard Capt. Greg Stanclik, executive officer,

Coast Guard Capt. Greg Stanclik, executive officer,

Coast Guard Capt. Greg Stanclik, executive officer, Coast Guard Cutter Healy, looks out from the bridge of the Healy as it leaves the port of Seward, Alaska, Aug. 8, 2014. The crew and passengers of the Healy, ... More

Chief Warrant Officer Michael Sandwith (right), from

Chief Warrant Officer Michael Sandwith (right), from

Chief Warrant Officer Michael Sandwith (right), from the Sector Puget Sound investigation division, converses with Joshua Lippet, chief mate of the Aiviq, a U.S. flagged icebreaking anchor handling tug supply v... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420-foot polar icebreaker,

Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420-foot polar icebreaker,

Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420-foot polar icebreaker, transits Puget Sound after departing its homeport of Seattle for an Arctic deployment, June 24, 2015. Coast Guard Research and Development Center personnel... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Darren Hicks, an aviation survival

Petty Officer 2nd Class Darren Hicks, an aviation survival

Petty Officer 2nd Class Darren Hicks, an aviation survival technician at Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, looks out over Arctic sea ice during a search and rescue exercise near Oliktok Point, Alaska, July 13, 20... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy is at dock in Dutch Harbor,

Coast Guard Cutter Healy is at dock in Dutch Harbor,

Coast Guard Cutter Healy is at dock in Dutch Harbor, Alaska Aug. 5, 2015, preparing to get underway for the Geotraces mission. Geotraces is Healy's second science mission of the summer, and is an international ... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crewmembers load stores Aug.

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crewmembers load stores Aug.

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crewmembers load stores Aug. 8, 2015, in preparation for the Geotraces mission to the Arctic. Geotraces is Healy's second science mission of the summer, and is an international effort ... More

Crewmembers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy help test

Crewmembers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy help test

Crewmembers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy help test a device designed to extract water samples and perform a variety of scientific tests in the Arctic Ocean Aug. 8, 2015, prior to getting underway for the Geo... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members deploy and retrieve

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members deploy and retrieve

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members deploy and retrieve their small boat while departing Dutch Harbor, Alaska, Aug. 9, 2015, in support of the Goetraces mission. Geotraces is Healy's second science mission of... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy supports Geotraces mission to the Arctic

Coast Guard Cutter Healy supports Geotraces mission to the Arctic

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members deploy a small boat crew during a man-overboard drill in the Bering Sea Aug. 9, 2015, in support of the Goetraces mission. Geotraces is Healy's second science mission of th... More

Crew members aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy work to

Crew members aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy work to

Crew members aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy work to retrieve a CTD rosette, a device designed to collect water samples and measure characteristics such as pressure, conductivity, and temperature, while underwa... More

Crew members aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy conduct

Crew members aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy conduct

Crew members aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy conduct a damage control drill Aug. 11, 2015, while underway in support of the Geotraces expedition. Geotraces is an international effort to study the distribution o... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy cruises under cloudy skies

Coast Guard Cutter Healy cruises under cloudy skies

Coast Guard Cutter Healy cruises under cloudy skies in the Bering Sea Aug. 12, 2015, in support of the Geotraces mission. Geotraces is Healy's second science mission of the summer, and is an international effo... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members deploy a small

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members deploy a small

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members deploy a small boat to enable scientists to gather seawater samples in the Bering Sea, Aug. 14, 2015, in support of the Geotraces mission. Geotraces is Healy's second scien... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy transits through the Bering

Coast Guard Cutter Healy transits through the Bering

Coast Guard Cutter Healy transits through the Bering Strait Aug. 15, 2015, in support of the Geotraces mission. Geotraces is Healy's second science mission of the summer, and is an international effort to stud... More

Fireman Lauren Anderson operates a sound-powered phone

Fireman Lauren Anderson operates a sound-powered phone

Fireman Lauren Anderson operates a sound-powered phone during damage control training Aug. 17, 2015 aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy while underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of Geotraces. Geotraces is Heal... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy supports Geotraces mission to the Arctic

Coast Guard Cutter Healy supports Geotraces mission to the Arctic

Chief Petty Officer Erin Hunter, an independent-duty health services technician aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy, has her portrait taken in the cutter's sick bay Aug. 19, 2015, while underway in support of the G... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members deploy a small

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members deploy a small

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members deploy a small boat to enable scientists to gather seawater samples in the Arctic Ocean Aug. 19, 2015, in support of the Geotraces mission. Geotraces is Healy's second scie... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Chris Stevenson, a damage controlman

Petty Officer 2nd Class Chris Stevenson, a damage controlman

Petty Officer 2nd Class Chris Stevenson, a damage controlman aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy, welds pipe sections together in the damage controlman shop Aug. 21, 2015, while underway in support of the Geotraces... More

Master Chief Petty Officer Matthew Lasley and Lt. Cmdr.

Master Chief Petty Officer Matthew Lasley and Lt. Cmdr.

Master Chief Petty Officer Matthew Lasley and Lt. Cmdr. Eileen Beck operate Coast Guard Cutter Healy from aloft con Aug. 22, 2015, while underway in support of the Geotraces mission. Geotraces is Healy's secon... More

An icebow, an optical phenomenon caused by sunight

An icebow, an optical phenomenon caused by sunight

An icebow, an optical phenomenon caused by sunight interacting with suspended ice crystals in the atmosphere, forms off Coast Guard Cutter Healy's bow Aug. 23, 2015, while underway in the Arctic Ocean in suppor... More

A polar bear is observed off Coast Guard Cutter Healy's

A polar bear is observed off Coast Guard Cutter Healy's

A polar bear is observed off Coast Guard Cutter Healy's stern, Aug. 23, 2015, while the cutter is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of Geotraces. Geotraces is Healy's second science mission of the summer,... More

Dr. Greg Cutter, professor of oceanography at Old Dominion

Dr. Greg Cutter, professor of oceanography at Old Dominion

Dr. Greg Cutter, professor of oceanography at Old Dominion University, prepares to deploy a rosette water sampler from Coast Guard Cutter Healy Aug. 27, 2015. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of... More

Dr. Phoebe Lam, a researcher at the University of California

Dr. Phoebe Lam, a researcher at the University of California

Dr. Phoebe Lam, a researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz, oversees the deployment of oceanographic pumps Sept. 1, 2015, aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in s... More

Sea ice stretches to the horizon off Coast Guard Cutter

Sea ice stretches to the horizon off Coast Guard Cutter

Sea ice stretches to the horizon off Coast Guard Cutter Healy's port side Sept. 2, 2015. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National Science Foundation-funded Arctic GEOTRACES, part of an i... More

Chief Petty Officers Erin Hunter, John Lobherr and

Chief Petty Officers Erin Hunter, John Lobherr and

Chief Petty Officers Erin Hunter, John Lobherr and Megan Hart gather on Coast Guard Cutter Healy's fantail for a Chiefs Call to Indoctrination event Sept. 3, 2015. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in suppo... More

Petty Officer 3rd Class Dan Gomes, a boatswain's mate

Petty Officer 3rd Class Dan Gomes, a boatswain's mate

Petty Officer 3rd Class Dan Gomes, a boatswain's mate aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy and Rob Rember, a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, are lowered onto a large ice floe by crane to collect ic... More

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy gather samples

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy gather samples

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy gather samples and conduct experiments on ice floes Sept. 3, 2015, while underway in the Arctic Ocean. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National... More

Petty Officer 3rd Class Dan Gomes, a boatswain's mate

Petty Officer 3rd Class Dan Gomes, a boatswain's mate

Petty Officer 3rd Class Dan Gomes, a boatswain's mate aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy, conducts ice rescue training with crew members Sept. 3, 2015, while underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of Geotraces. H... More

Cutter crew reaches North Pole U.S. Coast Guard photograph

Cutter crew reaches North Pole U.S. Coast Guard photograph

The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy and the Geotraces science team have their portrait taken at the North Pole Sept. 7, 2015. Healy reached the pole on Sept. 5, becoming the first U.S. surface vessel to d... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members and scientists

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members and scientists

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members and scientists deploy decorated styrofoam cups deep into the ocean with a rosette water sampler at the North Pole Sept. 6, 2015. The pressure of the deep ocean shrinks the ... More

Chief Petty Officers Erin Hunter, John Lobherr, and

Chief Petty Officers Erin Hunter, John Lobherr, and

Chief Petty Officers Erin Hunter, John Lobherr, and Megan Hart are joined by Coast Guard Cutter Healy's Chiefs Mess and Wardroom for a pinning ceremony at the North Pole Sept. 7, 2015, marking the culmination o... More

Chief Petty Officers Erin Hunter, John Lobherr, and

Chief Petty Officers Erin Hunter, John Lobherr, and

Chief Petty Officers Erin Hunter, John Lobherr, and Megan Hart are joined by Coast Guard Cutter Healy's Chiefs Mess and Wardroom for a pinning ceremony at the North Pole Sept. 7, 2015, marking the culmination o... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members demonstrate ice

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members demonstrate ice

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members demonstrate ice rescue and survival techniques at the North Pole Sept. 7, 2015. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National Science Foundation-funded ... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy supports Geotraces mission to the Arctic

Coast Guard Cutter Healy supports Geotraces mission to the Arctic

Coast Guard Cutter Healy Chiefs Mess members pose for a group photo at the North Pole Sept. 7, 2015. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Cory J. Mendenhall)

Tim Kenna, a researcher at Columbia University’s

Tim Kenna, a researcher at Columbia University’s

Tim Kenna, a researcher at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, prepares to be lowered onto an ice floe by crane to collect ice samples Sept. 8, 2015, in the Arctic Ocean. Kenna is underway o... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Chris Ford, a machinery technician

Petty Officer 2nd Class Chris Ford, a machinery technician

Petty Officer 2nd Class Chris Ford, a machinery technician aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy, displays his hands after troubleshooting one of the cutter's four main engines Sept. 10, 2015. Healy is underway in th... More

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy collect

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy collect

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy collect ice cores and other data on an ice floe Sept. 11, 2015, while underway in the Arctic Ocean. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National Sc... More

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy collect

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy collect

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy collect ice cores and other data on an ice floe Sept. 11, 2015, while underway in the Arctic Ocean. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National Sc... More

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy collect

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy collect

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy collect ice cores and other data on an ice floe Sept. 11, 2015, while underway in the Arctic Ocean. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National Sc... More

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy gather samples

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy gather samples

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy gather samples and data on an ice floe Sept. 14, 2015, while underway in the Arctic Ocean. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National Science Fou... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy motors through the Arctic

Coast Guard Cutter Healy motors through the Arctic

Coast Guard Cutter Healy motors through the Arctic Ocean Sept. 16, 2015. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Cory J. Mendenhall)

A polar bear is observed off Coast Guard Cutter Healy's

A polar bear is observed off Coast Guard Cutter Healy's

A polar bear is observed off Coast Guard Cutter Healy's port side Sept. 17, 2015, while underway in the Arctic Ocean. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National Science Foundation-funded A... More

Petty Officer 3rd Class Danielle Ray, a machinery technician

Petty Officer 3rd Class Danielle Ray, a machinery technician

Petty Officer 3rd Class Danielle Ray, a machinery technician aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy, troubleshoots the ship's fresh water system Sept. 19, 2015, while underway in the Arctic Ocean. Healy is underway in... More

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy conduct

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy conduct

Scientists aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy conduct pumping operations from the cutter's fantail Sept. 20, 2015, while underway in the Arctic Ocean. The oceanographic pumps cycle seawater through a series of fil... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members use spotlights

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members use spotlights

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members use spotlights while navigating through ice Sept. 20, 2015, while underway in the Arctic Ocean. The lights aid in seeing pressure ridges and other obstacles. Healy is under... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members conduct work

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members conduct work

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members conduct work on one of the cutter's main engines' pistons Sept. 22, 2015, while underway in the Arctic Ocean. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the Nation... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members deploy a small

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members deploy a small

Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew members deploy a small boat Sept. 26, 2015, to enable scientists to collect water samples. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National Science Foundation-funde... More

Cmdr. William Woityra, operations officer aboard Coast

Cmdr. William Woityra, operations officer aboard Coast

Cmdr. William Woityra, operations officer aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy, teaches an oceanography class to crew members Sept. 30, 2015, in the cutter's wardroom. The class is being taught to crew members for c... More

Aurora borealis is observed from Coast Guard Cutter

Aurora borealis is observed from Coast Guard Cutter

Aurora borealis is observed from Coast Guard Cutter Healy Oct. 2, 2015, while conducting science operations in the Arctic Ocean. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National Science Foundati... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420-foot icebreaker homeported

Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420-foot icebreaker homeported

Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420-foot icebreaker homeported in Seattle, conducts science operations the southern Arctic Ocean, Oct. 4, 2015, after becoming the first U.S. surface vessel to reach the North Pole u... More

Aurora borealis is observed from Coast Guard Cutter

Aurora borealis is observed from Coast Guard Cutter

Aurora borealis is observed from Coast Guard Cutter Healy Oct. 4, 2015, while conducting science operations in the southern Arctic Ocean. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National Science... More

Two of Coast Guard Cutter Healy's four main engines

Two of Coast Guard Cutter Healy's four main engines

Two of Coast Guard Cutter Healy's four main engines can be seen here Oct. 5, 2015. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National Science Foundation-funded Arctic GEOTRACES, part of an interna... More

An HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter from Coast Guard

An HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter from Coast Guard

An HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak in Kodiak, Alaska lands on the flight deck of Coast Guard Cutter Healy, Oct. 7, 2015, while underway in the southern Arctic Ocean. Healy is... More

CGC Healy crew receives Unit Commendation award

CGC Healy crew receives Unit Commendation award

Cmdr. Karl Lander (left), executive officer of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, reads the Coast Guard Unit Commendation award as Capt. Jason Hamilton, commanding officer of the Healy, presents representatives from... More

Two red and white ships in the water. Ice breakers ships winter

Two red and white ships in the water. Ice breakers ships winter

Two ships in the ocean with ice / Two ships are traveling through the ice / Public domain stock photo of a ship.

U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft recognizes

U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft recognizes

U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft recognizes the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star from Seattle for their quick-thinking and ingenuity that helped save the mission of the nation’s only heavy... More

One of Cutter Healy’s onboard life rings is framed

One of Cutter Healy’s onboard life rings is framed

One of Cutter Healy’s onboard life rings is framed in the foreground atop the Chukchi Sea, north of the Arctic Circle July 8, 2016. During Cutter Healy’s first of three missions during their West Arctic Summer ... More

Capt. Michael Davanzo (left) addresses Capt. Matthew

Capt. Michael Davanzo (left) addresses Capt. Matthew

Capt. Michael Davanzo (left) addresses Capt. Matthew Walker (right) during his speech at the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star change-of-command ceremony held at Coast Guard Base Seattle, July 14, 2016. As record a... More

Capt. Jason Hamilton explains the cutters most recent

Capt. Jason Hamilton explains the cutters most recent

Capt. Jason Hamilton explains the cutters most recent operations to U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft and U.S. Congressional representatives in the commanding officer's conference room Aug. 11, 2016... More

Seaman Matthew Weesner tends a line during a stores

Seaman Matthew Weesner tends a line during a stores

Seaman Matthew Weesner tends a line during a stores onload, Aug. 11, 2016 in Seward, Alaska. Preparing for its second mission, Cutter Healy embarked a team of researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanog... More

Walrus’ huddle together on the ice in the Chukchi Sea,

Walrus’ huddle together on the ice in the Chukchi Sea,

Walrus’ huddle together on the ice in the Chukchi Sea, Aug. 23, 2016. Underway for its second mission, Cutter Healy embarked a team of researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC-San Diego, and... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Julia Kinney, supervises the

Petty Officer 2nd Class Julia Kinney, supervises the

Petty Officer 2nd Class Julia Kinney, supervises the deployment of a buoy float on deck Aug. 13, 2016 during the deployment of a hydro-phonic buoy in the Chukchi Sea. Underway for its second mission, Cutter Hea... More

Seaman Julie Nguyen studies a console screen Aug. 26,

Seaman Julie Nguyen studies a console screen Aug. 26,

Seaman Julie Nguyen studies a console screen Aug. 26, 2016 on the bridge during an all female watch. Underway for its second mission, Cutter Healy embarked a team of researchers from the Scripps Institution of ... More

Petty Officer 1st Class Lisa Densmore issues instructions

Petty Officer 1st Class Lisa Densmore issues instructions

Petty Officer 1st Class Lisa Densmore issues instructions Aug. 27, 2016 during a simulated general emergency drill. Underway for its second mission, Cutter Healy embarked a team of researchers from the Scripps ... More

General Electric technician Clive Reed works on generator

General Electric technician Clive Reed works on generator

General Electric technician Clive Reed works on generator system updates Sept. 3, 2016 from a computer in main control. Underway for its second mission, Cutter Healy embarked a team of researchers from the Scri... More

Crewmembers pay out cable from the aft deck Sept. 4,

Crewmembers pay out cable from the aft deck Sept. 4,

Crewmembers pay out cable from the aft deck Sept. 4, 2016 while placing research equipment into the Chukchi Sea. Underway for its second mission, Cutter Healy embarked a team of researchers from the Scripps Ins... More

Seaman Miguel Santiago takes an order Sept. 5, 2016

Seaman Miguel Santiago takes an order Sept. 5, 2016

Seaman Miguel Santiago takes an order Sept. 5, 2016 during a meal in the galley. Underway for its second mission, Cutter Healy embarked a team of researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC-San... More

Petty Officer 3rd Class David Buck prepares beans for

Petty Officer 3rd Class David Buck prepares beans for

Petty Officer 3rd Class David Buck prepares beans for an upcoming meal Sept. 7, 2016 in the galley. Underway for its second mission, Cutter Healy embarked a team of researchers from the Scripps Institution of O... More

Crewmembers, researchers and scientists make final

Crewmembers, researchers and scientists make final

Crewmembers, researchers and scientists make final preparations to set the last mooring of the mission Sept. 13, 2016 on the aft deck in the Chukchi Sea. Underway for its second mission, Cutter Healy embarked a... More

A young polar bear swims toward Cutter Healy’s fantail

A young polar bear swims toward Cutter Healy’s fantail

A young polar bear swims toward Cutter Healy’s fantail Sept. 13, 2016 in the Chukchi Sea. Underway for its second mission, Cutter Healy embarked a team of researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanograph... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeff Bernard, a machinery technician

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeff Bernard, a machinery technician

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeff Bernard, a machinery technician aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy, cleans the block of one of Healy’s main diesel engines, Sept.18, 2016. The Healy is propelled by four main diesel e... More

Capt. Jason Hamilton, commanding officer of Coast Guard

Capt. Jason Hamilton, commanding officer of Coast Guard

Capt. Jason Hamilton, commanding officer of Coast Guard Cutter Healy, visits with watchstanders on the bridge of the Healy while transiting to the Arctic Ocean on Sept. 19, 2016. The Healy is a polar icebreaker... More

Crewmembers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy prepare

Crewmembers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy prepare

Crewmembers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy prepare to deploy a Sea Glider while transiting the Arctic on Sept. 20, 2016. The Healy is a Polar icebreaker homeported in Seattle, Washington. U.S. Coast Guard phot... More

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420-foot

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420-foot

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420-foot Medium Icebreaker homeported in Seattle, conducts a shakedown cruise in the Puget Sound in preparation for their Summer trip to the Arctic, May 22, 2017. A s... More

Capt. Greg Tlapa departs, as the new commanding officer

Capt. Greg Tlapa departs, as the new commanding officer

Capt. Greg Tlapa departs, as the new commanding officer of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, at the end of a change-of-command ceremony held at Base Seattle, June 22, 2017. Commissioned in 2000 and measuring 420 f... More

Petty Officer 1st Class Christine Seale (right) and

Petty Officer 1st Class Christine Seale (right) and

Petty Officer 1st Class Christine Seale (right) and Fireman Darla Imhoff secure a hatch aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a medium Polar Icebreaker, as the crew departs Seward, Alaska for its annual Arctic d... More

Coast Guard, Navy divers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy locate wreckage of fishing vessel Destination with remote operated vehicle near St. George, Alaska

Coast Guard, Navy divers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy locate wrecka...

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Harris and Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Richard Dutton, divers deployed on the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, conduct remote operated vehicle operations in search of the wrec... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Harris, a diver deployed

Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Harris, a diver deployed

Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Harris, a diver deployed on the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, controls a remote operated vehicle from the cutter in the Bering Sea, near St. George, Alaska, July 24, 2017. Harris is a p... More

Petty Officer 1st Class David Edelson, a boatswains

Petty Officer 1st Class David Edelson, a boatswains

Petty Officer 1st Class David Edelson, a boatswains mate onboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, clears a path in the ice for an unmanned underwater system in the Arctic, July 29, 2017. The UUS is a small-unmanne... More

Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Geri Cabrera, a

Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Geri Cabrera, a

Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Geri Cabrera, a member of a joint Coast Guard-Navy dive team deployed on the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, conducts supervisor checks during Arctic dive operations, August 1, 201... More

CGC Maple Northwest Passage transit

CGC Maple Northwest Passage transit

The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Maple follows the crew of Canadian Coast Guard Icebreaker Terry Fox through the icy waters of Franklin Strait, in Nunavut Canada, August 11, 2017. The Canadian Coast Guard as... More

Emily Chandler, policy liaison on the Oceanographer

Emily Chandler, policy liaison on the Oceanographer

Emily Chandler, policy liaison on the Oceanographer of the Navy staff, participates in a yoga classSunday, Aug. 27, 2017 aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy while the crew transits to the Arctic. As someone who... More

Crew members from the Coast Guard Cutter Healy offload

Crew members from the Coast Guard Cutter Healy offload

Crew members from the Coast Guard Cutter Healy offload science equipment Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, from a small boat near Nome, Alaska. The stop was to pick up the last two science members, who will be taking par... More

Jessica Cross, a research oceanographer with the National

Jessica Cross, a research oceanographer with the National

Jessica Cross, a research oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration​ Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, shows the course of an unmanned wind-propelled and solar-powered surfac... More

The Coast Guard Cutter Healy is captured from a camera

The Coast Guard Cutter Healy is captured from a camera

The Coast Guard Cutter Healy is captured from a camera onboard one of two unmanned seagoing vehicles during a rendezvous between the vehicles and the crew aboard the cutter in the southern Chukchi Sea, Tuesday,... More

Science party members aboard the Coast Guard Cutter

Science party members aboard the Coast Guard Cutter

Science party members aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy clean a bucket on the fantail of the cutter during night operations along Barrow Canyon, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. The bucket is used to retrieve sediment ... More

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeffrey Bernard

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeffrey Bernard

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeffrey Bernard checks the lube oil pressure for a starting compressor, during an engineering round aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, while the crew is underway in the Arc... More

Coast Guard Fireman Candida Imhoff (center) writes

Coast Guard Fireman Candida Imhoff (center) writes

Coast Guard Fireman Candida Imhoff (center) writes on a damage control diagram during DC training held on the Coast Guard Cutter Healy while underway in the Arctic, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Imhoff documented sim... More

Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star sits on blocks in a Vallejo,

Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star sits on blocks in a Vallejo,

Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star sits on blocks in a Vallejo, Calif., dry dock facility undergoing depot-level maintenance including inspections and repairs to critical cutter components prior to the cutter’s next... More

Coast Guard Lt. Spencer Ross, and engineering officer

Coast Guard Lt. Spencer Ross, and engineering officer

Coast Guard Lt. Spencer Ross, and engineering officer aboard Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, conducts an interview with a reporter from a local news outlet while standing on the dry dock floor below the Polar St... More

BERING SEA – The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter

BERING SEA – The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter

BERING SEA – The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB-20) listens to a navigation brief Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, before getting underway in the Arctic. The crew of the Healy l... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy conducts Arctic patrol in support of the Office of Naval Research

Coast Guard Cutter Healy conducts Arctic patrol in support of the Offi...

BERING SEA – U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Shannon Eubanks gives a briefing Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB-20) in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Eubanks is a small boat... More

Coast Guard Cutter Healy conducts Arctic patrol in support of the Office of Naval Research

Coast Guard Cutter Healy conducts Arctic patrol in support of the Offi...

BERING SEA – U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Sean Carrillo, 37, of El Paso, Texas, salutes a passing Coast Guard cutter Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, near Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Carrillo is a crew member of ... More

BERING SEA – U.S. Coast Guard Seaman Daniel Prythero

BERING SEA – U.S. Coast Guard Seaman Daniel Prythero

BERING SEA – U.S. Coast Guard Seaman Daniel Prythero (left) and Seaman Madeline Nilson lift a fender Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB-20) in the Bering Sea. The crew of the Heal... More

ARCTIC OCEAN – Nick Hukriede mounts temperature sensors

ARCTIC OCEAN – Nick Hukriede mounts temperature sensors

ARCTIC OCEAN – Nick Hukriede mounts temperature sensors to a device used to measure water conductivity, temperature and depth Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB-20) approxim... More

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