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:
“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wires ... to the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“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)
“You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.”
—Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)