Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew returns from Arctic for Thanksgiving

Fireman Nichole Vepeda throws a line over the side of Coast Guard Cutter Healy as it moors to the pier at Coast Guard Base Seattle, November 21, 2017. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ayla Kelley.
SEATTLE — Coast Guard Cutter Healy and its 87 crew returned home to Seattle Tuesday in time for Thanksgiving following a 147 day deployment conducting science operations during four diverse...
Coast Guard reintroduces shipboard diving capabilities to Arctic

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Harris holds a Coast Guard ensign during a cold water ice dive off a Healy small boat in the Arctic, July 29, 2017. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class David Bradbury
ALAMEDA, Calif. — U.S. Coast Guardsmen and U.S. Navy sailors conducted shipboard dive operations from a Coast Guard cutter in the Arctic July 29 for the first time since two...
NOAA locates F/V Destination wreckage, Coast Guard hearing set for August

Washington, DC – Two NOAA ships, en route to scientific missions in Alaskan waters, helped locate the missing fishing vessel Destination at the request of the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation. The Destination and its six crew members were lost February 11, 2017, while fishing for Opilio crab (snow crab) northwest of St. George, Alaska.
NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson, a fisheries survey vessel,...
Coast Guard Cutter Healy holds change-of-command ceremony

Capt. Jason Hamilton (left), former commanding officer of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, and Capt. Greg Tlapa (right), incoming commanding officer of the Healy, shakes hands with Vice Adm. Fred Midgette, Coast Guard Pacific Area commander, who presided over their change-of-command ceremony at Base Seattle, June 22, 2017. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Norcross.
SEATTLE —...
Coast Guard Cutter Healy returns to homeport in Seattle, Wash., after 127-day deployment in Arctic Ocean

Cutter Healy keeps station Aug. 25, 2016 during cutter boat drills in the Chukchi Sea. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher M. Yaw
SEATTLE – Coast Guard Cutter Healy crewmembers returns to its homeport in Seattle at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, after a 127-day summer deployment in the Arctic Ocean.
The Healy’s crew conducted three groundbreaking scientific studies in the Arctic,...
Cutter Healy to arrive in Seward Wednesday following 39 days of scientific research in the West Arctic

Coast Guard icebreaker Cutter Healy perches next to a shallow melt pond on the ice in the Chukchi Sea, north, of the Arctic Circle July 20, 2016. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Ensign Brian P. Hagerty
Seward, Alaska — Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Healy will moor in Seward Wednesday to disembark 46 researchers from the University of Alaska-Anchorage and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
Coast Guard Cutter Healy visits Honolulu, open for tours

HONOLULU — The Coast Guard Cutter Healy arrived in Honolulu, Wednesday, for a port visit before continuing on a four-month Arctic deployment.
This port call is Healy’s first stop in Hawaii since 2011.
The Healy will be open to the public for tours Saturday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., at Pier 11. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Pets are not allowed aboard the cutter. Coast Guard crewmembers...