22-07-2017 03:02 via ktva.com

Decade after fatal accident, ice divers back on USCGC Healy

As the nation’s only Arctic icebreaker, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy is familiar with Alaska’s icy waters.
Dive instructor Geri Cabrera is about to be, too.
“I was fortunate to dive down in Antarctica with the Polar Star. So, coming up here to the North Pole is a check in the box for me. I’m very excited,” Cabrera said
She’s one of a dozen ice divers aboard the Healy for the first time since 2006 when a diving operation in the Arctic Ocean killed two peop
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