Coast Guard divers braved the Antarctic to repair a leaking ship. Footage shows petty officers Chuck Fox and Corey Smith ...

The Coast Guard operates just two icebreakers — the 48-year-old heavy icebreaker Polar Star, and the 27-year ... called Polar Security Cutters, six years behind schedule.

The Coast Guard’s operational polar icebreaking fleet currently includes one heavy icebreaker, the 399-foot Coast Guard cutter Polar Star, commissioned in 1976, and one medium icebreaker, the 420-foot ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) - The U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy received approval for the construction of the first Polar Security Cutter. It will be built at Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding ...

“The Coast Guard, our nation’s primary operator in the Arctic, is reliant on just one aging heavy icebreaker, the Polar Star, which is ... s first Polar Security Cutter is starting this ...

SEATTLE — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy has returned to Seattle ... as the Healy, a 420-foot polar icebreaker, conducted joint scientific missions with various federal agencies and ...

The vessel, acquired Dec. 11, will enhance U.S. operational presence in the Arctic and support Coast Guard missions while awaiting delivery of the Polar Security Cutter (PSC) class. Upon ...

The vessel, acquired December 11, will enhance US operational presence in the Arctic and support Coast Guard missions while awaiting delivery of the Polar Security Cutter (PSC) class. Upon ...

“We are reviewing the progress — or lack thereof — of the Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter program and discussing ... the Polar Star, which is already well past its intended service ...

The Coast Guard Cutter Healy breaks ice in the Nome Harbor ... just two icebreakers — the 48-year-old heavy icebreaker Polar Star, and the 27-year-old medium icebreaker Healy.

A House panel on Wednesday leveled bipartisan criticism at the Coast Guard for delays in building Polar Security cutters needed to offset the growing Russian and Chinese activity in the Arctic.