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The Coast Guard icebreaker Healy took scientists to explore ecosystems of the Chucki and Bering Seas in 2010 and 2011. Healy is nominally a "cutter" in Coast Guard parlance and its main mission is polar science support, although Healy routinely responds to emergency situations in the Bering and Chukchi where it is sometimes the only Coast Guard cutter for hundreds of miles. Healy is the largest ship in the US Coast Guard's "red hull fleet" (large icebreakers) and it dwarfs all other cutters in the Coast Guard's more numerous "white hull fleet." Healy can accommodate up to 50 scientists in addition to its crew of approximately 90, for science missions lasting more than two months. (Photo by Karen Romano Young)[back]
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