The US Coast Guard is tasked with patrolling and protecting the world's largest exclusive economic zone, which spans nine time zones.
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The icebreaker Polar Star moves through thick ice near a seal colony in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. |
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The crew of an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter surveys the area around the fishing boat Predator, carrying three people, which ran aground near the port of Akutan, Alaska. |
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Members of the ice rescue unit participate in training on Lake Champlain at the U.S. Coast Guard Station in Burlington, Vermont. |
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Boomer, the Coast Guard's lucky dog, sits on a rescue boat. He was rescued and designated as the unit's lucky dog in December 2013. |
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Members of the U.S. Coast Guard participate in a live-fire exercise at Dexter Small Range in Honolulu, Hawaii. |
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The icebreaker Munro passes under the Golden Gate Bridge on its way to San Francisco Bay in California. |
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The crew of the Oak scrapes clams and oysters from the buoy before releasing it back into the sea off the coast of Massachusetts. |
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The Hamilton was carrying about 18 tons of cocaine (worth $498 million), seized in 20 maritime raids in the Pacific Ocean. |
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Air rescue personnel rappel from an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter into the ocean during a joint search and rescue operation with the Mexican Navy off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico. |
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Coast Guards from the United States, Netherlands, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago participate in Exercise Tradewinds 2017 in Bridgetown, Barbados. |
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The Eagle patrols in foggy conditions in Casco Bay in Portland, Maine. |
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The US Coast Guard Air Logistics Center in Elizabeth, North Carolina. |
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An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter is loaded onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport aircraft at the Miami Coast Guard Station in Opa Locka, Florida. |
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Soldiers use a rope gun to anchor the fishing boat Black Beauty off the coast of New Hampshire. |
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Members of the Coast Guard Station Sand Key in Florida participate in sea survival training. |
According to Danviet