Coast Guard Cutter Healy to deploy
SEATTLE – The nation’s largest icebreaker, Coast Guard Cutter Healy, departs Seattle Thursday to prepare for its Arctic West summer 2008 deployment that will have the cutter in the northern polar regions for over six months.
During the deployment, Healy will travel more than 25,000 miles and conduct more than 2,000 individual science evolutions in the course of completing seven separate...
Video – Icebreaking on the Coast Guard Cutter Alder
On January 9, 2008, the Cutter Alder was out in the Duluth Superior harbor breaking ice in the main shipping channels. The Duluth Shipping News was around for the ride.
Cutter Neah Bay Headed to St. Lawrence Seaway
CLEVELAND – The Coast Guard cutter Neah Bay will depart today, from here, to assist the Canadian government with ice breaking operations in the St. Lawrence Seaway. The current ice conditions along the seaway are 8-10 inches.
During a normal summer day, an average of nine ships passes through the St. Lawrence Seaway. Under the current conditions, no more than five ships are able to pass...
Coast Guard Commences Operation Taconite
CLEVELAND – The Great Lakes Coast Guard fleet has commenced Operation Taconite after ice has caused the significant slowing of traffic in the St. Marys River system and other areas in the Lakes.
Coast Guard Cutter Biscayne Bay, homeport of St. Ignace, Mich., and the Coast Guard Cutter Katmai Bay, homeport of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., will be the focus of the first ice breaking operations, with...
Coast Guard Completes Mission to North Pole
BARROW, Alaska – The Coast Guard successfully reached the North Pole Thursday as a test of its ability to operate in the Arctic region.
The 1,100 mile flight aboard a Coast Guard C-130 Hercules airplane originated in Barrow at 8:30 a.m., and reached the North Pole at 12:32 p.m., AST. As the airplane headed north the sun rose off the aircraft’s right side, but then descended below the...
Coast Guard Conducting First North Pole Flight
Mission part of increase in Arctic operations
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Coast Guard announced a C-130 departed Barrow, Alaska today to fly 1,183 miles to the North Pole as part of an increase in Arctic orientation flights. The crew, which will includes a representative from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Barrow community, will assess changes in maritime activity in the region...
Coast Guard Exercises Option for Overhaul of USCGC Healy
SEATTLE – The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation a $3,443,681 modification to a previously awarded contract Hin support of repairs and alterations performed during the dockside availability of the icebreaker USCGC Healy (WAGB-20). The contract modification provides for the alteration and repair of the ship’s systems, engines and shipboard equipment. The work...
COAST GUARD TO ENFORCE BLUE ANGELS AIR SHOW SECURITY ZONE
HONOLULU — The U.S. Coast Guard will enforce a security zone for the Blue Angels Air Show Oct. 13-14 at Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. The security zone will include parts of Kaneohe Bay and require mariners to steer clear of a “show box” the high-performance jet pilots will use as a reference point.
A security zone ensures spectators or boaters do not enter an area that is...
Coast Guard Cutter Healy completes 2007 deployment
SEATTLE – The nation’s largest icebreaker, Coast Guard Cutter Healy, commanded by Captain Ted Lindström, returns to her homeport of Seattle, Washington on September 30.
Healy’s arrival in Seattle denotes the successful conclusion of the Arctic West Summer 2007 Deployment that began when Healy departed Seattle on April 3. Since April, Healy and her crew have traveled over 25,000...
