It looks like the Healy has been having an interesting voyage. They had aboard a team from the Research and Development Center that were aboard to try out some new technologies.
Here you will find a listing of what they hoped to do while aboard. Projects included.
- 3-D Printing
- NOAA buoy
- Passive Millimeter Wave Camera
- Oil Skimmer
- Small Unmanned Aircraft System
- MSST San Diego Dive Team in Cooperation with a Navy dive team
- Unmanned surface and subsurface vehicles
A later post shows how it turned out–lots of photos. It is presented in reverse chronological order, August 6 to July 21, so you might want to read it from bottom up.
More on the diving operations during this deployment. https://news.usni.org/2017/08/15/video-u-s-navy-coast-guard-divers-swim-beneath-arctic-ice?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=9d6b5c2eb7-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-9d6b5c2eb7-230459137&mc_cid=9d6b5c2eb7&mc_eid=71cec7830c