Inside the US Largest Icebreaker Ever Built
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@pzakkly3976 Жыл бұрын
I worked on the ship at Todd’s Pacific Shipyards as an outside machinist about 25 years ago amazing ship
@johncichon9499 Жыл бұрын
through the years, I've heard light-hearted comments on the USCG. These are unfounded...and in my mind, these folks are awesome and their mission critical. THANK You for your brave work.
@davidstaudohar6733 Жыл бұрын
Well thank you for posting , I'm a Former Lt, Cmndr in the Coast Guard , Our patrol range was from Cape Hatteras NC to Jacksonville FL , We were a part of The eye in the Sky Program / Military operation , As Hunter/ interseptors on a First strike task force on war ,to stop illegal drug trafficking during the Ron Reagan administration, The 84 " foot cutter I served on was a beast , 🦅🇺🇸🦅‼️b
@thalmoragent9344 Жыл бұрын
@@davidstaudohar6733 Thanks for your service sir! Currently in the Navy now, hoping to commission after some time as well Coast Guard is cool, was glad to meet a few in some fire fighting training, were all cool lads.
@MikeFL2TX Жыл бұрын
Can you commission and cross over to the Coast Guard?
@Thomasnmi Жыл бұрын
I am grateful for our Coasties and their service to our country
@johndewey6358 Жыл бұрын
Thank you US Coast Guard for all you do in promoting safety and defense of freedom of navigation or at times of war. With the global warming and opening up of the arctics, I hope our leaders have plans and actions to get us ready for the arctic challenges as well as the enormous opportunities. Including retooling our ships, submarines, air forces and our weapon systems and communication tools. We need to train our younger generation to man all these challenges and opportunities and the lead times for education and training is very long to be really good at anything.
@frankmarcia5956 Жыл бұрын
i served in the Coast Guad in the early 1960s and alot has changed since rhan but the icebreakers just keep doing their work. Semper Paratus.
@shotime6990 Жыл бұрын
I am currently on the polar star and worked on both boats, the Healy and star are both massive ships with insane power plants. But when it comes to who is the toughest and biggest polar star takes it for sure.
@elsieholden9863 Жыл бұрын
I heard that the Polar Star's Main Propulsion Division was garbage,
@wildwoodwood9153 Жыл бұрын
I was stationed with a guy who spent time on both. I remember telling him how awesome it must’ve been to be stationed on one of those and all of the cool places he got to see. All he could tell me about was how hard it was to sleep because of the sound of the ice constantly scraping on the hull. Lol
@DC-lu9pc Жыл бұрын
Spent 26 months on the WAGB Polar Star - RM. It is an awesome ship/
@mouryamk3986 Жыл бұрын
How do you even get a job on one of those ships
@dsloop3907 Жыл бұрын
never did see inside......js.
@BRUHM0M3NT. 7 ай бұрын
Bruh
@lukehorning3404 Жыл бұрын
That was amazing the way they changed that motor
@hxhdfjifzirstc894 Жыл бұрын
BOAT SURGERY. They did a heart transplant on that thing.
@iuliandragomir1 Жыл бұрын
I don't understand why the clip is called that Inside the US Largest Icebreaker Ever Built. I saw nothing of what was supposed to be the inside of an icebreaker. I saw instead 10 minutes about the coast guard
@benscoles5085 Жыл бұрын
there was a few seconds of Bridge, and a few seconds on the deck, but as you said, nothing inside, unless you consider the fact they got on this ship at all as an ''inside''
@shotime6990 Жыл бұрын
Well it is a military vessel they can’t give you a mtv crib tour lol, just know the boat inside isn’t all that I been inside it
@bluestarindustrialarts7712 Жыл бұрын
I was in the USCG in the early 80's. Was being lured to take a duty tour on a southern Icebreaker, the Southwind I believe it was. I was a Sonar Tech. Sooo glad I refused that assignment. 5 MONTHS underway in the Antarctic......for 30 days port in Aussie land? Then 5 more months at sea/ice. No Sir, Ill stay on the big white Cutters thank you very much.
@tikitiki7610 Жыл бұрын
these people and their craft get all my heartfelt thanks!
@procatprocat9647 Жыл бұрын
you are simply getting what you pay for
@joegibson4946 Жыл бұрын
I retired from the Coast Guard after 21 years. My first duty station was on the USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278) which was commissioned in the mid-1940s and given to the Russians as part of the Lend-Lease program. The Russians got it stuck in the ice in the late 50s and gave it back to the Navy who promptly gave it to the Coast Guard. I served on her from March 1972 until July 1974. Calling the Healy a "powerful" icebreaker is a joke. The Healy could not break the amount of ice that the old Wind Class (Staten Island, Eastwind, Southwind, Westwind, Northwind, Burton Island and Edisto) or the Glacier. The Wind Class breakers were classified as Heavy Icebreaker. The Polar Star and Polar Sea were both designed to break more ice than the Wind Class icebreakers. (I did the commissioning photos on both. I also shot the engineering photos of the Polar Star's variable pitch screws which broke in the ice on her first trip in the ice). The Healy may be larger than the two Polar Class icebreakers but the U.S. Coast Guard has always classified the Healy as a Medium icebreaker and it was never intended to be used in the same ice condition as the older verssels.
@Captain_Marco Ай бұрын
Red Boats Rule!! I served aboard USCGC NORTHWIND (WAGB-282) 1979-1981 and deployed to Antarctica in support of Operation Deep Freeze ‘80, along with USCGC GLACIER and USCGC POLAR SEA. Our mission was to assist POLAR SEA on her first Antarctic break-in, as well as to escort a USNS supply ship into and out of McMurdo. Later in the year we deployed on Arctic East Summer ‘80 up to Thule Greenland. Fun times!! Semper Paratus! 🇺🇸
@friarfox Жыл бұрын
Interestingly enough my ex father in law was a naval architect for the Canadian coast guard back in the 90s. He had been a shipright growing up in Aberdeen Scotland and eventually got his degree late in life. They were refitting the bow on an ice breaker last time I saw him in Halifax.
@rycriswell2326 Жыл бұрын
That is awesome. Thank you for making the country safe. ☺️
@procatprocat9647 Жыл бұрын
It's americans who make america unsafe.
@lamontcompton9464 Жыл бұрын
I watched them prep and pick that engine up when it shipped out for the Healy. Support the fleet!
@kenm8162 Жыл бұрын
Was on the commissioning crew of the Healy. Some great food in and around Avondale LA while I was being built.
@soundsandambientvideos380 Жыл бұрын
this one is longer, but it is medium ice breaker only. sea and star were/are heavy ice breakers
@sinnasinna7060 Жыл бұрын
We need more icebreakers
@tc1uscg65 Жыл бұрын
@@sinnasinna7060 The Polar Sentinel class breaker is scheduled for delivery in 2025 (was 2024). That's the word on the street. ;-)
@michaelpass2176 Жыл бұрын
Super glued back together.
@jamesbyrd468 Жыл бұрын
The Coast Guard's sole Medal of Honor was Douglas Munro who died pulling Marine's from a beach on Guadalcanal before they could be overrun by a much larger force of Japanese.
@benscoles5085 Жыл бұрын
I looked him up, read the story, He a true hero, saved 500, even had it been 2, he still is.
@pzakkly3976 Жыл бұрын
Polar sea and polar star much stronger and powerful and can go through thicker ice then the Healy
@tc1uscg65 Жыл бұрын
Correct. Anyone in the CG or who studies its ice mission knows that Healy's main mission is research. Yes, it was designed to break the ice but if you look at the 1` for 1 vessels abilities, it's on par with the NEW Mackinaw in the great lakes. Heck, the 140 WTGB's I served on could break 4 ft solid ice (blue water ice) or more during backing and ramming. Great ship the Healy but it confuses people to know it may look bigger but is not in the same class as the Sea, or Star. The next level of breaker being designed is going to be fantastic.
@tadroid3858 Жыл бұрын
I was on the Polar Star in 1984 for a North trip and the Olympics. My school came up, or I could have gone south. Only regret I had there. It was a great ship!
@keithoneill9876 Жыл бұрын
Cool !! I was an outfitter on the Healy at Avondale !! I was at launch ....chk out that video
@garrettreily1033 Жыл бұрын
Can we get a video about the Polar Star as well?
@robertp.7090 Жыл бұрын
I've worked on the Polar Star and Polar Sea, I do believe they're bigger.
@penman145 Жыл бұрын
Polar Star and Polar Sea were in Seattle. I believe I was on the NorthWind at the time.
@herc1305 Жыл бұрын
I looked it up. Polar Sea is no longer in service. Polar Star is 399ft length with a displacement of 13,842 Tons Healy is 420ft length with a displacement of 16,257 Tons Healy probably looks like it'd be smaller because the hull goes up higher making it look like less length.
@tc1uscg65 Жыл бұрын
@@herc1305 Healy doesn't have the power that the Sea or Star had. The Healy has about as much breaking ability as the older Mackinaw (not the new one). Heck, even the 140's can break 3-4ft of ice, more when backing and ramming. Healy was designed, for one thing, for research. Ice breaking was just to get it closer to where they needed to do research. Sea and Star, along with the Windclass and even the Glacier were designed to break ice for resupply missions. Doing research was 2nd fiddle to its purpose. Comparing the Healy to a polar class for mission tasking would be like comparing a Herc to a Falcon. 73's
@johnye2210 Жыл бұрын
How long does the whole replacement take? Im new to watching this stuff
@MesaperProductions Жыл бұрын
"such as the Air Force and the military" Such subtle shade thrown, the Air Force might not even notice!
@Allegedly2right Жыл бұрын
We built one of them ships in the U.K. 🇬🇧 but I don’t think it likes the cold.Measured twice but still cut it short patched right up haha I kid you not.
@1nePercentJuice 3 ай бұрын
I wish i could work on an icebreaker. Such a cool vessel. I'd want a job that stayed inside, where I could be warm while the arctic rages outside. Call me crazy but that sounds comfortable to me
@penman145 Жыл бұрын
Was on the U.S.C.G.C Northwind. She wasn't the biggest but she was great.
@jamesbyrd468 Жыл бұрын
Still have my red hat from Northwind 1982-1985.
@rsdi_art Жыл бұрын
Awesome
@stephenrocks7004 Жыл бұрын
And unbelievable operation replacing the propulsion unit.
@kentd4762 Жыл бұрын
Open heart surgery...
@DumbSkippy Жыл бұрын
Go Nuclear Icebreakers or go home. :: Russia- Hold my beer.
@rezaad8115 Жыл бұрын
Mantap bang
@ziq2188 Жыл бұрын
The World still had tough guys around, "" head above shoulder "" to many town folk. 🇸🇬 😲 👍
@unkelvetkouk8060 Жыл бұрын
Can you please do South African navy
@larinvik7296 Жыл бұрын
Is this Largest Icebreaker ? Good joke!
@BigEightiesNewWave Жыл бұрын
So close to FLATUS , I went to bathroom ahead of watching.
@tc1uscg65 5 ай бұрын
@6:10. That sound IS NOT the H60. It's the OLDER un-updated version of the HH65. I'm not from the aviation community but I've been around enough of them to know what they sound like. You could normally hear it before you seen it. Sounded like "AirWolf". Then they updated the engines and though still a distinctive sound, they don't sound as cool IMO. 60's, well, sound like a 60. Whomp Whomp Whomp... ;-)
@karibakid Жыл бұрын
Sailed on the Canadian Ice Breaker LOUIS ST LAURENT 1970s Like living in sub way was glad to get off
@chuckecheese4267 Жыл бұрын
Always wondered why the ice doesn't foul up the propellers?
@jhonyermo Жыл бұрын
Ice is above the SCREWS -- they are not propellers.
@franciscowashington2155 Жыл бұрын
Legal 👍👍👍😎
@chiefsnarlsnortz1610 Жыл бұрын
Salute 🫡 RDC, USCG, Retired!
@jamesomalley4556 Жыл бұрын
Looks like the Gas Turbine we use a work ?
@NativeSkater1000 Жыл бұрын
The Golden Ray was in the harbor I live at.
@williamdumas1587 Жыл бұрын
wow
@jonathanrobison9667 Жыл бұрын
They missed the opportunity to call her Trail Blazer.
@sickfayth5132 Жыл бұрын
um..... you never showed inside
@joejarrell2578 Жыл бұрын
Such as the air force and the military......
@chrisfrank4267 Жыл бұрын
Glacier WAGB-4 In the yards summer 1982
@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347 Жыл бұрын
I thought for a second I saw a woman in the wheelhouse of a Coast Guard ship! Could you imagine?! Thank God I woke up and checked the wife's clock on the stove. Close one, damn.
@w.d.g. Жыл бұрын
Ice breakers, ski hills, and ocean front property. three things no longer possible or needed, very soon.
@daveycooper4336 Жыл бұрын
They claim that ice is melting and breaking up in record rates..... my question is, as many icebreakers that all these countries use to travel to the polar caps, how does ice and snow supposed to build back to normal conditions, if we are breaking it up with huge ships?
@ellajames1114 Жыл бұрын
What does the us coast guard do in Australia. I’ve never seen them here. Are you sure the statement operations on all continents is true
@elsieholden9863 Жыл бұрын
USCGC Polar Star stops in Australia every year on its way to Antarctica.
@nicolek4076 Жыл бұрын
Word salad. Incomprehensible.
@Unqualified2ride Жыл бұрын
Thank you, that’s how all their videos are
@nbooth Жыл бұрын
There are a lot of grammar errors. They need an editor.
@nbooth Жыл бұрын
“Nevertheless, it is due to the utmost usefulness of this vessel that makes it a priority to be repaired and maintained.” Yikes. I wouldn't say it is incomprehensible though.
@nicolek4076 Жыл бұрын
@@nbooth Incomprehensible because I have high standards over word usage.
@fsnvret Жыл бұрын
All I want to know is how’s the food?
@FINALLYOUTAFTER7 Жыл бұрын
I guarded this ship. Vigor shipyards Seattle, 2019. Trust me.
@willtoulan Жыл бұрын
why does this show sound like it was written by an AI? lol
@NoGoBu Жыл бұрын
Where the heck is all the guns ? I want to see the 6" cannons ,maching guns, rifles gernade launchers ? The fun stuff 😁
@jamesbyrd468 Жыл бұрын
Only the wind class breakers were ever fitted with "cannons", they had two five inch twin mounts when built during WWII. They were removed because of international treats preventing armed vessels in Antarctic waters.
@arnokilianski7889 Жыл бұрын
Canadian Coast Guard ship in the foreground, 3:57-4:00. I'm not sure which one, though.
@cathrynkarapatsios6380 Жыл бұрын
Ham in there?
@cassougharbi6284 Жыл бұрын
Is it nuclear ship like Russian’s ??
@LAlfonsoPlancarte 3 ай бұрын
What ice ? I thought there was no more ice
@georgewilkinson6510 Жыл бұрын
US & Largest should be transposed
@tomascernak6112 10 ай бұрын
Half of that ships displacement is fuel. Conventional propulsion does not make sense for major icebreakers.
@Jimmyxsx 5 ай бұрын
Thats why Russia uses Nuclear powered icebreakers.
@tomascernak6112 5 ай бұрын
@@Jimmyxsx Exactly. And despite fact, that USN can build many variants of naval nuclear reactors, they still designing their new icebreaker line as conventional one. I am scratching my head what is real reason.
@Jimmyxsx 5 ай бұрын
@@tomascernak6112 cost might be one, and also the US doesn't need one. Russia needs them because they have strategic ports that require the use of icebreakers almost year round so for them it is worth the extra cost of the nuclear ship.
@tomascernak6112 5 ай бұрын
@@JimmyxsxYes, cost will be higher, but USA are rich and allyear service is also needed by USA, because they want to interfere with Russian activities in Arctic. This is why they even are building new Icebreakers. So these are IMHO not fitting answers to my question.
@wcelect Жыл бұрын
This video doesn’t show anything about the icebreaker!
@darkchilla94 Жыл бұрын
By far not the biggest ice breaker lol
@lukehorning3404 Жыл бұрын
How do you know I’ve looked and Russian ships are on the same scale but not really sure who is bigger
@darkchilla94 Жыл бұрын
@@lukehorning3404 I know that russian vessel have way more force to break through the ice. Some can break through 4 meter of ice, the US vessel only like 1,4 meter ish. You can look in up pretty easy on wikipedia if you look for "ice class".
@airwolf3607 Жыл бұрын
Thats what she said.
@volodymyrbuchak1852 Жыл бұрын
Well,the largest one is Arktika.
@carl8790 Жыл бұрын
Hmmm so they're not nuclear powered? Interesting.
@lab35982 Жыл бұрын
Why is the USCG icebreakers painted the same as the Canadian Coast Guard vessel's?
@jamesbyrd468 Жыл бұрын
Ever try flying your helicopter back to a white ship surrounded by white ice?
@benscoles5085 Жыл бұрын
@@jamesbyrd468 YOU stole the only chance I had today to be right! but yes that could be a real problem. lol
@JAKFLY28 Жыл бұрын
Canadians like to copy their big brithers
@patkcorcoran Жыл бұрын
I was on a boat once. It wasn't scary.
@mauriceclemens3286 Жыл бұрын
Impressive ship but the Russians have bigger and more.
@JAKFLY28 Жыл бұрын
Coast Guard had highest per capita death rate in w😅rod war one
@MarkFrisk Жыл бұрын
Script and narration are sorely lacking.
@mobiusone_8483 Жыл бұрын
Russia has the biggest
@user-xk8mq5ic9k 3 ай бұрын
Cute. But icebreaking megaprojects are all Russian. That is an area where Russian Federation actually surpass the USSR itself in gigantism. Because The Northern Sea Route has such huge economic importance to Russia.
@xandervk2371 Ай бұрын
Ilya Traber, a mafioso from Saint-Petersburg and a Putin crony, is in the control of the Northern Sea Route.
@neilpowell5285 Жыл бұрын
Titanic was the most luxurious icebreaker ever built.
@majormanfredrex Жыл бұрын
Titanic only managed to produce one serving of shave-ice.
@bethcooper4200 Жыл бұрын
Her steel was a joke, her water tight integrity was a joke and her attention to passenger and crew safety was a joke. Add in a grand staircase and you have no water tight integrity. What ship sails in ice berg charted waters without binoculars for the lookout watch? Today we see acts of sheer cowardice by captains and crew in times of distress as they do not have a commitment to a finer sense of honor regarding their duties during a shipboard disaster.
@yunassaxer7119 Жыл бұрын
😉🙂😊
@Jasona1976 Жыл бұрын
The best we have is 23 years old??? What is wrong with that?
@Thomasnmi Жыл бұрын
Can has limited budget
@hardyanpajero69 Жыл бұрын
👍😎🍺🍩🚢
@koontzzlyrics8098 8 ай бұрын
USA and icebreaker in same sentence 😂😂😂😂
@xandervk2371 Ай бұрын
That's exactly what you did, eh?
@donnythomas0078 Жыл бұрын
The ice is melting, why do we need this?? Lol
@hxhdfjifzirstc894 Жыл бұрын
To break ice. So much 'science' is political propaganda not based on fact.
@Noble_pancakes Жыл бұрын
🐮比
@peterorthmann5612 Жыл бұрын
You jump around too much. Ice breakers and drug intervention> I kinda doubt that goes together,
@jamesbyrd468 Жыл бұрын
Northwind seized around twenty thousand pounds of marijuana in Operation Wagon Wheel in 1984.
@bethcooper4200 Жыл бұрын
John on wives computer. Former CGman in 1960's. If you are in the CG you need to know that your mission can be one of multi tasking depending on any number of situations presenting themselves at any time. If one is opposed to variety then the CG is probably not for you!
@danielmedina-sg2eh Жыл бұрын
los rusos son mayores!!
@iszeusawoman5363 Жыл бұрын
Russian icebreakers still better tho
@bethcooper4200 Жыл бұрын
But would you want to be on a Russian icebreaker or their military apparatus where their commitment to maintainence is so suspect?
@jhonyermo Жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHA just like their Kluster Fuk of and Army? hahahahaha
@carlosacta8726 Жыл бұрын
Don't you guys watch PBS? The ice caps are melting!!! These ships are a waste of money!!!
@bethcooper4200 Жыл бұрын
No they are not. They are responsible for billions of dollars of commerce getting to market alone on just the Great Lakes. Been there, seen it as a former Coastie. Congrats on being just another clueless citizen with a big mouth. The CG has been and still is the best bang for the taxpayers buck ever.
@carlosacta8726 Жыл бұрын
@@bethcooper4200 I'm joking!!! Jeeeez!!! A little humor!! A little sarcasm! You know, tongue in cheek!!!
@stoveguy2133 Жыл бұрын
I hate winter
@bldlightpainting Жыл бұрын
More useless face diapers.
@Friedermanns Жыл бұрын
Just U.S. Navy propaganda...Take all that money to do something right on your own people instead waging wars worldwide. Find a decent job and never enlisted for killing people that never hits your gomeland. Be honest to yourself and your life be great again. SEMPER VERITAS SEMPER
@richardschipper5989 Жыл бұрын
🤡 try watching the video before making st-pid comments. it's the coast guard
@skip123davis Жыл бұрын
the coast guard is not part of the "armed services" or DoD military "like the air force," as you said. they are part of the commerce department.
@marioskegro9854 Жыл бұрын
Part of United States Armed Forces
@RJGJR Жыл бұрын
Skip Davis that is not correct. The Coast Guard IS considered a full member of the US armed services. They currently work under the dept of Homeland Security. This is because the CG has law enforcement authorities. The US constitution forbids the DoD from conducting law enforcement. In times of a declared war (by Congress) the CG is transferred to the DoD. Once the state of war is canceled they are transferred back to their normal department. In the past the CG was under the dept. of Transportation, now would be back to Homeland Security.
@penman145 Жыл бұрын
@@RJGJR Thats correct. During the time of war they are with the Navy. Not many know that the Coast Guard landed at Normandy on D-Day. The Coast Guard use to be with the department of transpertation, now as you said its with the department of Homeland Security.
@RJGJR Жыл бұрын
@@penman145 Yep! I did 22 years!
@bethcooper4200 Жыл бұрын
John-former Coastie here. Skip-You do not know what you are talking about.