Coast Guard icebreaker escorts tanker through Bering Sea ice

Published: January 6, 2012 

The Russian-flagged tanker Renda steams toward Nome, Alaska, through a path in the Bering Sea ice broken up by the Coast Guard Cutter Healy Jan. 6, 2012.

Photo courtesy U.S. Coast Guard

A Russian tanker carrying fuel for an iced-in Nome that without a delivery could run out of crucial supplies before winter's end encountered ice early Friday in the eastern Bering Sea and was escorted by the Coast Guard Cutter Healy Friday, Jan. 6, 2012.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/01/06/2249518/nome-bound-russian-tanker-encounters.html#storylink=cpy

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