ARCTIC OCEAN - Scientists aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, using a 12kHz multi-beam ecosounder, discovered an underwater mountain, known as a seamount, on the Arctic floor Aug. 25, 2009.
The Healy's high tech mapping system uncovered the seamount, estimated to be at least 1,100 meters tall, in the midst of an otherwise flat and featureless stretch of seafloor approximately 3,800 meters deep. It is located 700 miles north of Alaska.
The yet to be named seamount is the first to be discovered since the 2003 discovery of a seamount that was eventually named Healy.
(U.S. Coast Guard photo/ Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Kelley
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