Petty Officer 3rd Class Agustin Foguet, a damage controlman in the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star’s engineering department, lays a test weld on a piece of the cutter’s vital machinery while underway in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Jan. 13, 2016. Foguet used the test weld to determine the best method for working with that particular metal. ( Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Grant DeVuyst)

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