Coast Guard Cutter Departs for Anarctic Mission

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES

11.30.2014

Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Katelyn Shearer 

U.S. Coast Guard Northwest District

Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, a 399-foot polar class icebreaker, backs away from the pier at its homeport of Coast Guard Base Seattle to depart for the crew's four-month mission to Antarctica, Nov. 30, 2014. This deployment will mark the second Antarctic mission a Coast Guard icebreaker has performed since 2007. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Katelyn Shearer.

• Date Taken: 11.30.2014
• Date Posted: 11.30.2014 20:33
• Category: B-Roll
• Video ID: 378004
• VIRIN: 141130-G-YG480-001
• Filename: DOD_102115627
• Length: 00:00:35
• Location: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, US