Stuck in the North Pole: Life Inside US Largest Icebreaker Ever Built

[@RodgerMudd]

Proud to have served.

[@mbroton]

I got the opportunity to spend 60 days on the USCG Healy as a cinematographer. It was the trip of a lifetime!

[@napsterking7500]

Must have been an awesome experience! At least you had the opportunity

[@trex2092]

So glad I went Aviation in my career in the USCG. Air Sta Kodiak, St. Augustine, Clearwater, ATC Mobile, Corpus (6 months) and back to ATC Mobile. The last 7 years of my "military" career I lived in the house I grew up in and was able to care for my aging father. Loved being a Coastie.

[@josepharcuri8693]

Clearwater had to be beautiful. I remember on the 70s on vacation the cutters I'd see all the time.

[@mantis10_surf85]

Semper Paratus! Coasties Rule!

[@theCranesUS]

Corpus coasties are awesome.

[@robnamowicz8073]

@@theCranesUS Why do the Navy fellas call you 'Puddle Pirates?'

[@derrickconnolly9164]

I spent 5 years at the North Pole. Working offshore drilling. Never did see ship anywhere. We would send in equipment and a small crew to start up the drilling site and the landing strip. They would start drilling holes in the ice and pump water for days giving us roughly 30 feet of ice the set the rig up. And camp and construction area usually located by the airstrip. The air will be built on a crack in the ice. Because this the strongest part because of the forces from the making kinda of a ridge. Flood and level and keep it cleared. And we would land the C130 Hercules carrying the rig. 144 loads altogether. We would sit on about 1700 to 2500 feet of ocean below us. Yes the ice moves up and down with the tide and currents. We have these compensatiors in the sub structure that allows the rig to raise and lower to keep the bit on bottom drilling. The would raise upwards of 20 feet all day long. You never see it happening but it is happening. Anyway it was perhaps the most breathtaking beautiful frightening place I've been in my oilfield career. And this was in the early eighties

[@vegatofu]

The best videos from the best team. Thanks all, from Viet Nam

[@toupac3195]

I design airplane parts for a living. Ship building engineers absolutely blow my mind.

[@713devereux]

Thats a interesting career designing airplane parts.

[@AirborneAnt]

What type of propulsion would UFO’s likely use?

[@donmarsh819]

Rock On/ Our Coasties “ unappreciated in my views !

[@lukehorning3404]

That way they changed the engine was pretty impressive

[@moshunit96]

Love that time lapse of the engine installation.

[@tc1uscg65]

4.5ft of ice at more like 3kts, not 20. Unless someone is slipping go juice in the tank, it's top speed is 17. But still a cool platform. Time to replace the Polar Rollers with a more capable breaker, which could run rings around Healy on a bad day.

[@ericbush6124]

Beautiful looking Cutter I Proudly served aboard a wind Class Ice Breaker Northwind 1978-79 as a FN in A-Gang Auxiliary Engineering we deployed for Artic West trip it was a trip and amazing. First billet out of boot camp at RTC Cape May NJ

[@kiowa1508]

I toured the Northwind when it returned to port in Wilmington, NC (‘78 or ‘79…maybe a few years earlier?). The captain’s 12 year old son had been aboard for at least part of the trip. I remember the awesome silver service given to the ship by Russia for the Northwind’s service protecting Russian ports during WW2…displayed in the captain’s stateroom…which I recall spanned the entire beam of the ship😜.

[@deanbone6790]

I would love a video of the engine replacement. Thanks for producing this quality content!

[@scott37040]

The Chinook Helicopter is a CH-47. It had four wheels. The CH-46 is called a Sea Knight. It has three wheels. The helicopter in your video (and the one in the US Army) is the CH-47 Chinook.

[@jacobwalters418]

I work at the coast guard yard in Maryland we’ve got to work on these plus other ice breakers it’s crazy seeing the bulkheads of the ship all wavy over time from use of breaking though and hitting the ice

[@jeanninepeters3068]

Thank you for sharing comment;especially from a craftsman …We really need to buildup our navy,coast guard,merchant marines,shipyards.Greetings from Connecticut!

[@jeanninepeters3068]

Addendum:totally forgot PORTS.Recently found out Nome Port construction was canceled…

[@mrben6573]

Healy is a medium icebreaker. It can only continuously break 4.5 feet of ice. The old Polar Class heavy icebreakers like Polar Star can break 21 feet of ice. The difference in ice breaking capabilities is enormous. The fact the USCG has only one operational heavy icebreaker and she's in dire need of retirement shows the USA is a waning power.

[@patfromamboy]

The US is controlled by the rich so our tax dollars goes to the military industrial complex and for corporate welfare.

[@morticiaaddams7866]

Yeah. They've been using the Polar Sea for parts.

[@danthemansmail]

Russia has like 50 and is building new bigger nuclear powered ones as well.

[@jeanninepeters3068]

Thank you for information..I look forward to experienced/knowledgeable commenters willing to share on YT.Greetings from Connecticut.

[@sirjustinlee]

@7:36 they are jumping in that freezing waters.. nope.. not me. I need a hot tub on the deck.. lol😅

[@michaelhowell2541]

Hai Coast Guard we are for you!👍🇺🇸 ASM3

[@napsterking7500]

What beautiful Vessel!

[@tomascernak6112]

what a cute tiny ship 😀

[@AliAhmed-ku3wz]

♥ 😘 from Pakistan 🇵🇰 ♥ 😘

[@bretgreen5314]

The US Coast Guard is made up of extremely brave women and men. I once found myself in a bit of a stormy "situation" in my Alden 18 Ocean Shell in Northern California. The crew aboard a Coast Guard cutter spotted my struggles and they placed themselves in danger trying to assist me. Conditions were so treacherous it took many attempts for them to pull up close enough to offer assistance. I actually waved them off as I still had full control of my 10' oars (I actually preferred continuing on to a "who knows what" type of rescue attempt) . The fact that I was able to ultimately bring myself ashore does not diminish the risks that crew willingly took on that memorable windswept day. . .

[@strongsecurity7747]

That was crazy on your part , You almost died for the thrill of it ?

[@Kymcook73]

@@strongsecurity7747 exactly! A waste of our tax dollars for someone who would be so ignorant. Then would want these men and women to risk their lives in even what would of a worse situation. Stop being self centered and then want someone to save you.

[@behramcooper3691]

18 crew members were evacuated, not evaluated.

[@mojoden]

It's still one of his better days.

[@nickgibb4687]

awesome work

[@bobd9193]

No word on how it got from the Artic to Vallejo Ca. I would have to assume an ocean-going tug, Or probably another icebreaker for the first part of the trip at least. I suppose it's not really important to the story, but you'd think that they'd at least have touched on the subject. That's a hell of a long way to tow a ship. Anyway, Vallejo Ca was the home to The Mare Island Ship Yard, a sub base in the San Francisco bay area. I was stationed there in the 80s

[@bradenmcintire6984]

Try not to go to random topics 2/3 way through your videos.

[@lisacolbert5987]

I was surprised to see this vessel/captain was kind enough or even allowed to tow the 36’ sailboat to open waters. I’d thought that it was the law of the land , hehe , that rescues were never to include vessels as well as souls. Looked like a fairly valuable boat (must’ve been to have made it safely so far north, I guess) that the owner would’ve suffered it’s loss.

[@josephpadula2283]

At about 9:46 he says the speed In knots per hour!!!! Knot Means Nautical miles per hour. So he gave an acceleration not speed…..

[@physetermacrocephalus2209]

I like how the last few minutes of this piece about an American Ice breaking ship is essentially an advertisement for airbus helicopters lmao

[@rronmar]

Sadly the Healy is an ice resistant science vessel, and not a very good icebreaker. She has a lot of HP, but sadly with fixed pitch propellers she cannot employ all of it from a standstill, such as when setting in ice. This and her stern design inhibit her ability to back up and ram at thick ice, a necessary ability for any true icebreaker

[@GH-oi2jf]

Correct, Healy is not a heavy icebreaker. Not sad, though. Sad is that we had only two heavy icebreakers, Polar Sea and Polar Star, which are quite old now. One is not in service at all. We fell far behind in icebreaker development.

[@jeanninepeters3068]

Thank you for clarification.Greetings from Ct.

[@paulbriggs3072]

Recently the Commandant of the Coast Guard was forced to resign for malfeasance. She was all about DEI initiatives but failed to do basic equipment initiatives.

[@alexanderandre-colton8276]

A couple of errors in the narration. HEALY was specified to maintain 3.0 knots in 4.5 foot thick ice and be able to break 6.0 foot thick ice at no specified speed. She actually does better than spec and has, in fact, beaten through a 45 foot thick pressure ridge (took 4 hours, but she did it!) Her top open water speed is actually 20 knots.

[@goneswimming5636]

... Cutter Healy calls at the Port of Baltimore before returning to its home port in Seattle...." (Time stamp 8:46). This was after Cutter Healy's work in Alaska. Did I hear that correctly?

[@truesailor45]

amazing coas guard brows i like its,...

[@lukehartman777]

The Arctic circle is close to the magnetic 🧲 north black rock 🪨 which has 24 hr daylight days, there is much more to be discovered here as well

[@josephpearson4055]

I made 3 deployments on the Burton Island WAGB283

[@garysmith5430]

I made deep freeze 70 and a short in the Chukchi Sea on the glacier wagb4 69-70

[@jeanninepeters3068]

Thank you for services…Wow love to hear those sea stories!Greetings from a Navy “Brat”(16years)Connecticut

[@napsterking7500]

How warm is it aboard these Vessels when traveling through ice?

[@meDarkmask]

When the poor face hot and cold weather, the hot ones have no burden, and the cold ones make people poorer and poorer than buying heated clothes.

[@robiandolo]

Climate change, oh you mean weather.

[@brianlittle717]

If it can cut through ice like that I wonder if it can cut through land. It could actually dig a canal at 22 knots. That would be cool.

[@miketorre16]

nice to see Ice in the north pole, unlike what they show us on google earth

[@jeannemarcinek4575]

If the cutter would get stuck who would get it unstuck if they are in the arctic?

[@mickeybowmeister1944]

Russia

[@rangefreewords]

I love how we won't build another USCG ship on the east coast for the next 10 years.

[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

Congress has delayed the USCG New Icebreaker program at least another year !!!! 🤔

[@Hoser333]

Time stamp around 5:15, are there civilians on board?

[@papabits5721]

The Russians have the best icebreaker's.

[@gordo4559]

No the Finns do🇫🇮

[@papabits5721]

@ Russian icebreakers look fo ice to break, everyone else trys to avoid it.

[@bobbyjojo]

Why aren't the upper parts of the ship painted black?

[@SailorGerry]

An icebreaker as such could nevef make to the actual 'North Pole', unless you'd first have one of the atomic-powered Russian icebreakers break a path ahead for the ship.

[@erzsebetnilsson580]

US ICEBREAKER IS A SIZE OF THE PRIVATE FISHING BOAT Even the rich of the worlds yaht owner has bigger boat than the US ICEREAKER

[@CelestialTrailblazer]

Exterior wise, it looks like a generic regular ship. What exactly does it possess that helps break ice other than just the weight of the ship itself moving through ice ? That's what I want to know.

[@andreweppink4498]

It is largely the weight of the vessel which breaks the ice. The wedge shaped bow rides up the ice flow then the weight just crushes it.

[@bradbutcher3984]

Reinforced double hulls.

[@bradbutcher3984]

It's not just the weight like that guy says.

[@jeffreystorer4966]

Funny things boats ,not all terrain vehicles, once the ice become land they all struggle

[@mojoden]

Tail-rotor "finestering" ??????? Where does he find them?

[@simonhansen1942]

Finestering = twisting, twirling.

[@davepowell3293]

Fenestron,is qhat the enclosed tailrotor is called

[@tikitiki7610]

Russia seems to have this problem in hand.

[@dougcross800]

evacuated is not evaluated. 13:50

[@johnt8636]

Seriously? A cutter? It's an icebreaker. It's classed as an icebreaker. It's not a bloody cutter.

[@toivopirttimaki9156]

Russia has the biggest ship

[@jacksonbarens5876]

how do they clean the bottom of icebreakers? because i feal like it would be diffrent then cruse ships.

[@GlennStewart-k3w]

Ch46 seaknight not chinook

[@DanieltheTruebadour]

Ahem ... A helicopter cannot operate in the Arctic Ocean (floating doesn't count -- for very long, anyway It CAN, however, operate in the Arctic ocean ENVIRONMENT. Please choose words carefully. Results can be chilling.

[@markbailey2713]

Scientific experiments is code for petroleum exploration

[@JamesRodgers-e4u]

THEY RAN OF GAS

[@erikvanderwinden6623]

9:46 knots per hour?….

[@grrjr215]

Chinooks are CH-47s, 46s are retired and were called sea knights

[@jonathancolton1464]

It’s electric? Motors are electric. Engines are gasoline or diesel typically…

[@txvet7738]

Let’s be real all this research is all to find Santa! Lol

[@jeffpalmer5502]

What kind of engine is it ? Why did the engine fail ?

[@2broketim479]

Go CG!

[@arktseytlin]

TBH USA is not a serious Arktic player. This ship is like a dinghy vs Arktika class icebreakers.

[@ajyyoung3263]

I thought the polar ice cap had melted…

[@torbenhellborn3175]

I'm afraid I have to say, that both the editing of the footage and the narration together with its "mysterious" synth-pads DO NOT make any sense. At all.

[@AnotherBadRep]

I’m sorry but Russias nuclear powered ice breaker punks this one out so much

[@1XX1]

Russia has massive Nuclear Powered Icebreakers.. -just sayin

[@stealthassasin1day291]

The US is indeed lacking ice breaker ships but its just a matter of time until it's not needed but that's still a decades or more away.

[@jamessampson964]

You need to do away with that constant annoying background music

[@EBalagot007]

I want to go there and do research

[@moogman5]

It's much smaller than the Russians' but it's a lot swifter, that's for sure

[@tripresidue]

When the taxed rescue someone do they pay us back? Do the scientists pay the taxed to use our ship or do the taxed pay grants to them?

[@diegonavarro708]

Nothing is said about te ship's engines. What a diassoppointment !

[@locked_velo]

When you go to the real Arctic, don't forget to ask the Russians for help

[@michaelkramer1774]

and to think there are those who think we should cut defence money what are they thinking

[@someguy6924]

what a waste of money, no wonder the US is the most indebted nation in history!

[@LuísCarlosMerici]

E quem quer saber? Virem-se.

[@cristinacucconi7411]

❤

[@acmelka]

Life inside? You didn't show us the racks, staterooms or mess.... 🥺

[@ogbonnasam9997]

Beg Russia to help you build an actual ice breaker

[@kevinfunk83]

So the US doesn’t have a nuclear powered ice breaker?

[@Calzone407]

Alas, the coast guard doesn't have that kind of funding.

[@michaelferri6790]

She is an icebreaker her job is to break ice science know how do you breaking ICS

[@bigsid1984]

Why isn’t she Nuclear powered.

[@Jasona1976]

The best we have is 23 years old??? WTF

[@rickcavtube]

That's nothing for a Class 1 ship.

[@Jasona1976]

@@rickcavtube I stand by my comment. With our trillion dollar + a year defense budget that is the best we can do?? LMAO

[@hrbeta]

What a waste of taxpayers’ money. The Poles should be ice-free in just a few years. 🤓

[@billjames3148]

send GRETA asap

[@reidmclaughlin927]

How Much coal was used?..... Shut it down!

[@williammccaw928]

Less than 3 years an engine needed replace. User error. Probably that female

[@abelgarcia5432]

If the ice is melting, how come is the ice is 6 to 9 feet in your words.

[@abelgarcia5432]

Because it isn't melting. Have you seen all the ice and low temperatures plus all the polar bears on the Russian side of the Arctic Ocean.

[@johnperkins7111]

This is a sales promo, for helly

[@judieg.7945]

So much " R and D" since the world's countries signed an agreement to keep people out of the pole areas? Wouldn't a person wonder what they have found out in all of these years that might be of interest to the general populace? Just sayin.

[@wiwingmargahayu6831]

the area of land in my country is so wide like other wide country around the globe Sir

[@LLACEM]

I worked on

[@skyggekriger]

Those boots suck over long periods of use

[@fabriziopetralia93]

The US has NO national sovereignty in the Polar Sea! 😑

[@426superbee4]

A dam 50 cal can even get it free ~ Don't you have Cannons on that ship? Use those helicopter drop some bombs or rockets to make a path

[@kennethdomincel7186]

😊

[@erikc.7348]

If you don't use the metric system I'm off, I'm not going to convert feet into meters

[@rubenollachica4753]

🥺🥺🙄🙄🥺😞😞