A time-lapse video of the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star from Seattle navigating through ice flows en route to Antarctic for Operation Deep Freeze 2014, which is the U.S. Antarctic Program’s resupply efforts for McMurdo Station, Antarctica. The mission required the crew of Polar Star to break a navigable shipping lane through 12 miles of ice in McMurdo Sound, encountering ice up to 10 feet in thickness. The shipping channel was used by the tanker ship Maersk Peary to deliver approximately three and a half million gallons of fuel to McMurdo residents, allowing the Station to remain operational during the freezing winter months. (Coast Guard video by the Cutter Polar Star) Available in high definition.
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