Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Arciello passes a tool to Seaman Joshua Rife Sept. 4, 2016 on the aft deck in the Chukchi Sea. Underway for its second mission, Cutter Healy embarked a team of researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC-San Diego, and the Office of Naval Research who are deploying an array of acoustic bottom moorings to collect data on how climate change and decreased ice coverage is affecting the Arctic Ocean. Coast Guard photo by Zachary Reuther/Cutter Healy

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