Ship Photo of the Day – U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Reaches North Pole
The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy and the Geotraces science staff have their portrait taken on the North Pole Sept. 7, 2015.
Healy reached the pole on September 5, 2015, changing into the primary U.S. floor vessel to take action unaccompanied. Healy is underway in assist of Geotraces, a global scientific endeavor to review the geochemistry of the world’s oceans.
The accomplishment comes every week after President Obama referred to as for a brand new heavy icebreaker to patrol U.S. arctic by 2020.
U.S. Coast Guard Photo
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