U.S. Coast Guardsmen aboard seagoing buoy tender USCGC Sycamore (WLB 209) deploy the cutter's spilled oil recovery system (SORS) equipment near Barrow, Alaska, to conduct training on the ship's built-in spill recovery gear July 31, 2012, during exercise Arctic Edge. Sycamore and other ships in the same class are required to keep this equipment aboard in the event of a marine hazardous material spill. Arctic Edge is a U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Coast Guard, state, local and tribal exercise designed to test the SORS in the waters surrounding the Arctic regions of Alaska. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kelly Parker/Released)