Nation's largest icebreaker
makes port call in Ketchikan
October 13, 2008
Monday
Ketchikan, Alaska - The nation's largest icebreaker, the 420-foot
Coast Guard cutter Healy, arrived in Ketchikan, Saturday for
a brief port call before continuing on to her homeport of Seattle.
The Healy's arrival in Ketchikan comes at the conclusion of the
cutter's Arctic West Summer 2008 mission.
The 420-foot Coast
Guard cutter Healy, at dock in downtown Ketchikan.
Photograph by Lisa Thompson
The Healy crew spent the past four months in the Bering Sea and
Arctic Ocean studying the ecosystem and the Extended Continental
Shelf. The Healy crew departed Ketchikan Monday and is scheduled
to arrive in Seattle, Wednesday. The Healy was not available
for public tours while in Ketchikan.
Coast Guard cutter
Healy docked in Ketchikan.
Photograph by Lisa Thompson
The Healy, which was commissioned in 2000, is the nation's newest
and largest of the nation's three polar icebreakers. The cutter
has a permanent crew of 80; her primary mission is scientific
support. In addition, the Healy is capable of other missions
such as logistics, search and rescue, ship escort, environmental
protection, and the enforcement of laws and treaties in the Polar
Regions.
On the Web:
Coast Guard cutter Healy: 2008
USCG Polar Icebreaker Cruise Report
http://www.icefloe.net/reports_healy.html
Coast Guard cutter Healy: Arctive
West Summer (AWS)
http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgchealy/updates/
Source of News:
United States Coast Guard
www.uscg.mil
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