Nation’s Largest Icebreaker Healy Enroute to Alaska for Three Arctic Research Missions
The 420-foot USCG cutter Healy left its home port of Seattle last Wednesday for the Alaskan Arctic, where it will conduct the first of three scientific missions planned for this summer.
The first mission is to service underwater moorings in the Beaufort Sea and conduct a broad-scale survey of the boundary current system from the Bering Strait to the western Canadian Arctic. This program has been ongoing for more than two decades to improve understanding of the Pacific Arctic ecosystem in a...
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