BERING SEA - Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Tessa Vasquez, an electrician's mate, scans the horizon of the Bering Sea for contacts from the bridge of the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf May 11 2011. This is the first time for a 418-foot national security cutter to patrol Alaskan waters of the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen.