The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy returned to Seattle today following a two-and-a-half-month deployment in the Arctic.
Image of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy which returned to its home port of Seattle following a two-and-a-half-month deployment in the Arctic.
According to the Coast Guard, Healy is their only icebreaker specifically designed to support Arctic research. Its deployment included Arctic oceanographic research, mapping uncharted waters, and supporting early-career scientists in polar research. The Coast Guard said the first phase was a collaboration between the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration , the U.S. National Science Foundation , and the University of New Hampshire. It was an interagency science mission to the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas north of Alaska with a coordinated mapping effort to survey uncharted waters and acquire depth data along a portion of the Alaskan Arctic Coast Port Access Route Study corridor.
“Healy’s Arctic West Fall deployment demonstrates the agility and dedication of the crew,” said Healy’s Commanding Officer Capt. Michele Schallip. “In addition to contributing to navigation safety and support of scientific research, our deployment exercised the broad array of Coast Guard missions we conduct in the Arctic.”
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