Crew members aboard Coast Guard Cutter Maple retrieve a sampling net in the Arctic Ocean east of Barrow, Alaska, July 26, 2017. The crew of the 225-foot buoy tender out of Sitka was on a mission to support marine mammal research conducted by Josh Jones, a graduate student researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California. ( Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Nate Littlejohn/Released)

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