The U.S. Coast Guard has released the contestants for its annual Shutter Shootout photo contest, and the first round of voting has begun at its Facebook page.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Benjamin Ahlin supervises Seaman Matthew Weesner guide a bouy marker on deck, Aug. 12, 2016, during Coast Guard Cutter Healy’s port call in Seward, Alaska. Preparing for its second mission, Healy embarked a team of researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC-San Diego and the Office of Naval Research who are deploying an array of acoustic bottom moorings to collect data on how climate change and decreased ice coverage is affecting the Arctic Ocean.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher M. Yaw.
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