Follow along as participants in the cruise provide updates and reflections on their experiences, the science, the technology, and other elements of the Search for the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear expedition.
By Brad Barr
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bear has arrived back at the Coast Guard pier in Boston, completing a very successful mission (more about this in a few days), offloading all the survey equipment for shipping, and sending off the officers and crew for a well-earned “liberty.”
Read moreSeptember 28, 2019 | By Brad Barr
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bear has arrived back at the Coast Guard pier in Boston, completing a very successful mission (more about this in a few days), offloading all the survey equipment for shipping, and sending off the officers and crew for a well-earned “liberty.”
Read moreSeptember 23, 2019 | By LT Todd Ray
In the summer of 2019, the Coast Guard and U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bear (WMEC-901) were approached by NOAA with a daunting challenge to jointly conduct an exploratory mission in search of the wreck of the Revenue Service Cutter (RSC) Bear during the unit’s 72-day District One Maritime Security Response Operations deployment.
Read moreSeptember 20, 2019 | By Beth Crumley
Several months ago, when there was a scant possibility that Beth Crumley might be able to join the expedition to find the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear, she was thrilled...and equally terrified. She has been to sea before, but in the role of a historian. This mission is different. She is assigned to the survey team.
Read moreSeptember 19, 2019 | By Brad Barr
Inevitably, weather is likely to get in the way of the “best laid plans” of any at-sea mission, and ours is no exception. As a result of some storms heading toward New England, we have relocated to the more sheltered waters of Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts, just south of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and the busy waters of the approaches to The Port of Boston.
Read moreSeptember 15, 2019 | By Beth Crumley
Yesterday, September 14, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) Bear took in lines and slipped from her mooring in Boston. Pulling away from the dock, the cutter turned eastward under gray, overcast skies. The 270-foot vessel passed the skyline of the city, bound for the North Atlantic. This mission is drastically different from the cutter’s usual law enforcement and counter-narcotics operations. This mission is to locate possible resting sites of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear. As Beth Crumley looked into the gray mist, she wondered where that might be.
Read moreSeptember 15, 2019 | By Shannon Hoy
One objective of the first leg of the recent Deep Connections 2019 expedition on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer was to collect information about the seafloor using the ship’s mapping system to help in the search for the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
Read moreSeptember 12, 2019 | By Brad Barr
After nearly two decades of planning, the “Search for the Bear” is finally happening! The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bear is arriving at the pier in Boston this afternoon and all the survey equipment has been shipped and received, awaiting loading onto the ship.
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