Synopsis

These are among the most formidable vessels afloat, relentlessly confronting one of nature’s most daunting challenges. Contemporary icebreakers can cleave through ice sheets ten feet thick without pause, granting scientists and commercial shipping access to some of Earth's most remote and forbidding regions. Embark with us on a bracing expedition as we patrol the Great Lakes aboard the USCG Cutter Makinaw and navigate the notorious Northwest Passage on the inaugural voyage of the USCG Healy, the