Some Cool Pictures from the US Coast Guard

Coast Guard icebreaker escorts tanker through Bering Sea ice

BERING SEA - The Coast Guard Cutter Healy breaks ice around the Russian-flagged tanker vessel Renda 250 miles south of Nome, Alaska, Jan. 6, 2012.
The Healy is the Coast Guard's only current operating polar icebreaker.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis.

BERING SEA - The Coast Guard Cutter Healy escorts the Russian-flagged tanker vessel Renda 250 miles south of Nome, Alaska, Jan. 6, 2012.
The vessels are transiting through ice up to five-feet thick in this area.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis.

BERING SEA - The Russian-flagged tanker Renda steams toward Nome, Alaska, through a path in the Bering Sea ice broken up by the Coast Guard Cutter Healy Jan. 6, 2012.
The Renda is carrying more than 1.3 million gallons of fuel to deliver to the city of Nome.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by cutter Healy.

BERING SEA - The Russian-flagged tanker Renda carrying more than 1.3 million gallons of fuel for the city of Nome steams through a path in the ice of the Bering Sea Jan. 6, 2012.
The 420-foot Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Healy is escorting and breaking a pathway in the ice approximately 19 miles northwest of Nunivak Island for the Renda to safely navigate to Nome.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by cutter Healy.

BERING SEA - A Coast Guard Cutter Healy crewmember takes a moment to watch the Russian-flagged tanker Renda steam through the ice in the North Bering Sea while the cutter crew escorts the tanker to Nome Jan. 6, 2012.
The 420-foot Seattle-based Healy is the Coast Guard'€™s newest and most technologically advanced polar icebreaker and is currently the service's only operational polar icebreaker.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by cutter Healy.

BERING SEA - The Coast Guard Cutter Healy crew breaks ice in the Bering Sea as the Russian-flagged tanker Renda, approximately 19 miles northwest of Nunivak Island, makes their way to Nome, Alaska, to deliver more than 1.3 million gallons of fuel to the city Jan. 6, 2012.
The 420-foot Seattle-based Healy and tanker Renda are approximately 19 miles northwest of Nunivak Island.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by cutter Healy.