Crewmembers practice working with different hoses in an exercise aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, Dec. 8, 2016. More than 140 Coast Guard crewmembers are deployed aboard the Polar Star in support of the National Science Foundation-managed Antarctic Program.

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