[ROCKLOBSTER]

US Coast Guard Ice breaker asked to assist Antarctic rescue

Isn't that a little outside their jurisdiction? Didn't we have any US Navy in the area?

[vette6387]

“Isn’t that a little outside their jurisdiction? Didn’t we have any US Navy in the area? “

Maybe the USN doesn’t have any icebreakers or at least one the size of the Polar Star. Just wondering what it’s doing in Sydney , unless the USCG works Antartica because we have research people there.

[Lower Deck]

Didn't we have any US Navy in the area?

The navy doesn't have any icebreakers. The Coast Guard does. So does Canada, though I think all of them are in home waters.

[thackney]

The USCG icebreaker was already on route to Antarctica. It started that way Dec 3.

The intended mission of the Polar Star is to clear a navigable shipping channel in McMurdo Sound to the National Science Foundation’s Scientific Research Station.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

This icebreaker was already on its way to deliver supplies to a US scientific station in the area.

[tanknetter]

Isn't that a little outside their jurisdiction? Didn't we have any US Navy in the area?

Just remember: the Coast Guard is the hard core around which the Navy forms in times of war. ;-)

[dennisw]

This icebreaker is going to have to travel at least 10,000 miles to help out on what these warmist numbskulls started. A huge carbon footprint!!!

Now to be fair it seems this ships mission this season was to head to Antarctica anyways to help resupply our (US) base/research station there

“The Polar Star, the U.S. Coast Guard’s only active heavy polar ice breaker, left its homeport in early December on one of its primary missions, Operation Deep Freeze. The ship’s mission is to break a channel through the sea ice of McMurdo Sound to resupply and refuel the U.S. Antarctic Program’s McMurdo Station on Ross Island.”