{"id":141332,"date":"2024-04-01T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=141332"},"modified":"2024-04-01T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:42:52","slug":"eodmu-3-wraps-up-operation-deep-freeze-with-uscg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=141332","title":{"rendered":"EODMU-3 Wraps Up Operation Deep Freeze with USCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Polar Star is the U.S.\u2019 only heavy icebreaker. Polar Star\u2019s primary mission is to support scientific research at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, by breaking ice and keeping the sea channels clear for supplies to move in and out.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy and Coast Guard divers were on hand to provide emergency underwater ship\u2019s husbandry services. During the deployment, Coast Guard and Navy divers conducted medical training and training on all aspects of recompression chamber operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor dive operations, we\u2019re required to be able to reach a recompression chamber within six hours, whether that\u2019s by helo or at a local hospital,\u201d said Chief Warrant Officer 2 Brian Korte, U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area\u2019s dive force manager. \u201cThe Coast Guard doesn\u2019t currently have a chamber so that\u2019s why we partner with the Navy divers to bring that capability onboard Polar Star. We couldn\u2019t have done the mission without them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard expects to acquire the same type of recompression chamber the Navy has early next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time that they didn\u2019t spend diving, was spent on qualification training with the junior Coast Guard divers, showing them how to use the chamber and practicing procedures under pressure,\u201d said Korte.<\/p>\n<p>The joint dive team conducted 72 military dives totaling about 1,198 minutes of bottom time as deep at 45-feet.<\/p>\n<p>Joint missions like Operation Deep Freeze are opportunities for the Navy and Coast Guard to innovate new tactics and improve existing capabilities in a challenging environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiving in 29 degree water, there\u2019s a lot of challenges,\u201d said Korte. \u201cA tear in the dry suit or frozen equipment adds risk to what would be a routine dive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is an Arctic nation with sovereign territory and maritime claims. Despite containing the world\u2019s smallest ocean, the Arctic Region has the potential to connect nearly 75% of the world\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>As a component of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group ONE, EODMU-3 provides skilled and combat-ready deployable forces around the globe to support a range of operations in any environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polar Star is the U.S.\u2019 only heavy icebreaker. Polar Star\u2019s primary mission is to support scientific research at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, by breaking ice and keeping the sea channels clear for supplies to move in and out. The Navy and Coast Guard divers were on hand to provide emergency underwater ship\u2019s husbandry services. During the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141334,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141332\/revisions\/141334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}