Coast Guardsmen aboard seagoing buoy tender USCGC Sycamore (WLB 209) deploy a spilled oil recovery system (SORS) during Arctic Edge 2012 near Barrow, Alaska, Aug. 1, 2012. The SORS equipment is a vital asset to the Coast Guard's Marine Environmental Protection mission and includes booms to sweep oil into a skimmer. Arctic Edge is a Northern Command, Coast Guard, state, local and tribal exercise designed to test the SORS in the waters surrounding the Arctic regions of Alaska.
Coast Guardsmen aboard seagoing buoy tender USCGC Sycamore (WLB 209) deploy a spilled oil recovery system (SORS) during Arctic Edge 2012 near Barrow, Alaska, Aug. 1, 2012. The SORS equipment is a vital asset to the Coast Guard's Marine Environmental Protection mission and includes booms to sweep oil into a skimmer. Arctic Edge is a Northern Command, Coast Guard, state, local and tribal exercise designed to test the SORS in the waters surrounding the Arctic regions of Alaska.
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