Capt. Michele Schallip says if the U.S. Coast Guard’s Healy icebreaker she commands was suddenly homeported in Juneau rather than Seattle she’d be fine with it, but there would be some ...

The builder of the icebreaker Aiviq has given more than $7 million to political campaigns, parties and committees since 2012.

The Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or ICE Pact, between the United States, Canada and Finland is meant to pool new ship construction.

Meanwhile, the Coast Guard’s two serviceable ocean-going icebreakers soldier on. Healy, specifically designed to support Arctic science missions, returned to returned to her homeport of Seattle ...

“Is the Coast Guard getting the Aiviq a bad thing? No,” said Rear Adm. Jeff Garrett, a former captain of the Healy icebreaker. But “is it the ideal resource? No.” To reach the Arctic from ...

Fagan, the Coast Guard’s commandant ... the Polar Star, and one medium icebreaker, the Healy. Russia, meanwhile, has 55 icebreakers and “China, which has no sovereignty over any Arctic ...

Judging from the firing of the commandant of the Coast Guard, the Trump administration apparently feels the need for reform.

"At 0747, Coast Guard cutter Healy reached the North Pole ... technicians and Coast Guard personnel aboard the icebreaker, like-minded adventurers who had signed on to participate in one of the most ...

Yereth Rosen Alaska Beacon Nov 18, 2024 Nov 18, 2024 Scientists aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker have discovered ... organizations were aboard the Healy, one of two polar-class Coast Guard ...

“Is the Coast Guard getting the Aiviq a bad thing? No,” said Rear Adm. Jeff Garrett, a former captain of the Healy icebreaker. But “is it the ideal resource? No.” To reach the Arctic from ...

U.S. Coast Guard members and scientists exit Coast Guard Cutter Healy to walk on the ice for an ice survey north of Barrow, Alaska, on Oct. 2, 2018. (NyxoLyno Cangemi/U.S. Coast Guard) ...