Seattle-based Coast Guard Polar icebreaker returns home following Antarctic mission

SEATTLE, WA, UNITED STATES

03.17.2017

Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Norcross 

U.S. Coast Guard District 13

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, a 399-foot heavy icebreaker homeported in Seattle, moors up and is greeted by friends and family members at Pier 66, March 17, 2017.

The crew returned from a 107-day deployment to Antarctica in support of Operation Deep Freeze 2017, the U.S. military component of the Natural Science Foundation-managed U.S. Antarctic Program.

U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Norcross.

• Date Taken: 03.17.2017
• Date Posted: 03.17.2017 20:15
• Category: B-Roll
• Video ID: 514588
• VIRIN: 170317-G-LB229-0302
• Filename: DOD_104178565
• Length: 00:01:26
• Location: SEATTLE, WA, US