Coast Guard Cutter Healy Returns from Scientific Research Mission
U. S. Coast Guard
November 09, 2004
SEATTLE - The Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Healy arrived in Seattle today after successfully completing a 194-day Arctic research mission.
The mission marks the completion of the three-year Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions Project to investigate the impact of global change on the Chukchi and Beaufort Sea shelf basin region in the Western Arctic Ocean. The research conducted during this mission has made recent headlines across the globe.
Science missions included an 8-day Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami buoy mission for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, two separate 40-day Shelf Basin Interaction processing cruises, a 20-day NOAA mapping cruise and finally a 30-day SBI mooring cruise. The successful mooring cruise recovered all of the oceanographic moorings, including an additional Chinese mooring.
The Healy sailed 28,485 miles with port calls in Alaska, Japan, Russia and British Columbia. The cutter was the first Coast Guard vessel since 1991 to visit Provideniya, Russia. The Healy also responded to two search and rescue cases that saved five people from the icy Arctic waters.
Further information on the mission is at the following links:
Arctic West mission at http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/healy/deployments/AWS04/aws04.htm
Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions Project at http://sbi.utk.edu/
Search and Rescue cases completed during the trip http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/healy/deployments/AWS04/SAR2.htm and http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/healy/deployments/AWS04/SAR.htm .
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