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Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lally / U.S. Coast Guard via AP
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, left, breaks through the Bering Sea ice 165 miles south of Nome, Alaska, on a return path to break ice up around the tanker Renda on Jan. 8, 2012. The Renda is carrying more than 1.3 million gallons of critically needed fuel to be delivered to Nome.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lally / U.S. Coast Guard via AP
Coast Guard Cutter Healy breaks ice on Jan. 8, 2012.
msnbc.com staff and news services report from ANCHORAGE, Alaska:
A Coast Guard icebreaker is cutting a path through icy seas for a Russian tanker carrying much-needed fuel for the iced-in Alaska city of Nome.
The 370-foot tanker Renda, hauling more than 1.3 million gallons of fuel, is scheduled to arrive later Monday or Tuesday.
Video and still photo images released by the Coast Guard show the two vessels moving steadily through ice jammed seas. Read the full story.
Seaman Benjamin Nocerini / U.S. Coast Guard via Reuters
Russian-flagged tanker Renda follows a path made in the ice by the crew of the Healy, 250 miles south of Nome on Jan. 6, 2012.
A Coast Guard vessel is cutting a path through the icy waters for a Russian tanker carrying much needed-fuel for Nome, Alaska. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
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Global warming? I thought there wasn't any artic ice left.
In the 32 years since 1979, maximum winter arctic sea ice volume has declined from about 32,000 km^3 to 22,000 km^3.
Average yearly arctic sea ice has declined from about 25,000 to about 13,000 km^3.
Minimum arctic sea ice has declined from about 16,000 to about 4,000 km^3.
Ice thickness is about one half of what it was in 1979, making expeditions such as this feasible.
Arctic sea ice is clearly disappearing. Did you expect it to vanish in a flash?
Oh. Let these vessels turn around.
the way 'they' promote global warming, I thought all the ice did vanish already.........in a flash!
I admire these people that are brave enough to do this job. It looks terrifying to be so far out in that ice hoping they make it alive. Congrats to all of them.
Thank you to those of you who are sharing positive thoughts on this mission. As a mother of one of the team members of the Healy, I greatly appreciate it.
For those of you who continue to try to make this issue more contraversial (thru comments about global warming), I too have my own view of global warming, but would appreciate more focus on the mission at hand and what these brave men and women are doing to help the city of Nome. We can assess the issues later and "assign blame" once the mission is successful.
DJ, kudos to yours on the mission.
Pray
Good Job Healy, I was an MK1 on the USCGC Polar Sea, 1993-1996 AOS 1994, Over the North Pole for Acrtic Study
good sailing coast gaurd!!
I always wonder about the judgement and manners of these agenda-driven people but I suspect MSNBC puts these articles here just to foment outrageous, misguided posts. Good luck sailors! From a bluenose.
So this doesn't happen every year?
I think that the global warming people should be required to take a geoleogy course. The earth has been warming and cooling for millions of years, long before man was on earth. No doubt that we may be be in a warming (or cooling cycle). The question is, can man do anything about it!