Sentences with phrase «guard icebreaker»

Photos from the US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy (http://mgds.ldeo.columbia.edu/healy/reports/aloftcon/2011/) indicate that ponds and leads began to freeze over around the first of September at 88 degrees latitude, which is in line with the relatively early leveling off of the ice extent time series shown in the NSIDC contribution.

Recently, a Norwegian Coast Guard icebreaker ship took an interesting trip into the Arctic.

The Coast Guard icebreaker Healy in the Arctic last summer (Credit: Dave Withrow / United States Coast Guard via Associated Press

Reached by e-mail, Larry Mayer, an oceanographer from the University of New Hampshire scouring the sea bottom from the Coast Guard icebreaker Healy, said this:

In November, the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy helped deliver an emergency load of fuel oil to icebound Nome, Alaska.

Not exact matches

In his first interview with a business magazine since his appointment, Papp — who spent four decades with the Coast Guard — talks to Fortune about drilling in the Arctic, working with Russia amid the current geopolitical turmoil, and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water ports.

An unsolicited bid to provide icebreakers and multi-purpose ships for the coast guard was submitted to government last month

Schumer and Hein wanted the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge the bay so as to allow the Coast Guard's Saugerties - based icebreaker access to the river.

A third icebreaker, the Polar Sea, is sitting in dry dock, and the Coast Guard plans to decommission it later this year.

The paper from the research organization notes, for instance, that the Navy and Coast Guard have one medium - sized icebreaker currently in service, while Russia operates 25.

Newly returned from riding along on the U.S. Coast Guard's Healy icebreaker as it surveyed the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska, Vermont Law School professor Betsy Baker reports a failure of science and law to communicate.

Within days of the twin Mir descent, the U.S. Coast Guard had dispatched the icebreaker Healy north of Alaska to spend nearly a month mapping the Arctic Ocean's floor; Canada commenced a 10 - day military exercise called a «sovereignty operation»; and the Danes sent scientists to map the seabed north of Greenland.

The Chinese icebreaker Xuelong has been studying multiyear sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, and the U.S. Coast Guard is sounding waters to determine the extent of the Alaskan continental shelf.

The Polar Star, a heavy - duty icebreaker operated by the U.S. Coast Guard, has been undergoing extensive renovations and is slated to be operational by the 2013 - 14 season.

As the planet warms and more ships enter Arctic and Antarctic waters, the Coast Guard hopes to finally break the deep freeze on new icebreakers and lead the way.

The ice - tank trials were intended to evaluate potential heavy polar icebreaker designs for the future fleet, says Alana Miller, a Coast Guard representative.

To help scientific and other craft navigate these frozen waters, the U.S. Coast Guard employs a small fleet of icebreakers — powerful ships with reinforced hulls that clear the way for other vessels.

Ultimately the Coast Guard aims to grow its fleet to include three heavy and three medium icebreakers.

That is when mammoth icebreakers like the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star arrive in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound as part of Operation Deep Freeze to open up the shipping lanes needed to resupply the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station and other facilities on Ross Island.

The US needs to go ahead with new icebreakers to police the Bering Strait region and the coastline of Alaska, as well as to help enforce environnmental laws, respond to emergencies, etc. (Write your Congressman; the Coast Guard Authorization bill is a good place to start.)

It is not only need for new and better equipped icebreakers the Coast Guard must contend with; more important will be the risk that rescue attempts far off shore in the Arctic could be met by sudden ice storms that could bring down a helicopter or capsize a rescue vessel.

The Coast Guard is conducting a study, not yet public, examining Canadian and Finnish companies» ability to construct an icebreaker, according to [the Arctic Institute's Ryan] Uljua, who said one firm in Helsinki, Finland — Aker Arctic — has designed 60 percent of the world's icebreakers.

In addition, for Arctic national security operations, the U.S. Coast Guard should have operational control of the nation's three icebreakers, rather than the National Science Foundation.

The Coast Guard should have the authority to determine future icebreaker requirements.

We showed a Canadian icebreaker in our earlier post on the battle for the melting north; here is the US Coast Guard Healy, which according to Robert Lee Hotz in the Wall Street Journal is «are gathering the data legally required to extend national

A Greenpeace icebreaker that entered Russia's Arctic without permission to protest offshore energy exploration is leaving after being threatened with gunfire by that country's coast guard....