Operations
In 2011, the ship was in the middle of a seven-month science cruise in the Arctic Ocean conducting scientific operations. Due to the other U.S. ice breakers being either in repair (Polar Star) or in the process of being decommissioned (Polar Sea), the Healy is the only active large ice breaker in the Coast Guard's fleet. The commanding officer is Captain Beverly Havlik. Captain Havlik assumed command of Healy in May, 2011.
In January 2012, Healy escorted the Russian-flagged freighter Renda through the sea ice flows to deliver an emergency supply of fuel to Nome, Alaska. Such a winter delivery had never been attempted before because the ice floes are 1 to 5 feet thick during the winter season.
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Famous quotes containing the word operations:
“You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.”
—Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)
“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“It may seem strange that any road through such a wilderness should be passable, even in winter, when the snow is three or four feet deep, but at that season, wherever lumbering operations are actively carried on, teams are continually passing on the single track, and it becomes as smooth almost as a railway.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)