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Important climate data rescued by Norwegian Coast Guard north of Alaska

Th KV Svalbard retrieved the instruments after the USCGC Healy was taken out of service by a fire.

By Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer November 9, 2020
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The Norwegian Coast Guard has managed to retrieve scientific instruments with important data from the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, in an last-minute rescue mission improvised after the the U.S. icebreaker originally intended to collect them was sidelined by a fire.

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