USCGC Edisto
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USS Edisto was a Wind-class icebreaker in the service of the United States Navy and was later transferred to the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Edisto. She was named after Edisto Island, South Car
USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284) underway
USCGC Edisto. Note retracted hangar.
USCGC Edisto. Note the hangar is retracted while a helicopter rests on the hangar deck.
Iceberg
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An iceberg is a piece of fresh water ice more than 15 meters long that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water. Smaller chunks of floating glacially derived ice a
USCGC Edisto
…East Summer" (AES) voyage that commenced at Baltimore on July 7, 1974. She first sailed in support of the International Ice Patrol, studying some 35 icebergs of varying sizes and shapes off the west coast of Greenland and the east coast of Baffin Island, Canada. Her crew took aerial, surface, and sonar…
An iceberg in the Arctic Ocean
Tabular iceberg
Iceberg from overhead showing above and submerged ice
Northern edge of Iceberg B-15A in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, 29 January 2001