Seagoing buoy tender USCGC Sycamore (WLB 209) anchors off the coast of Barrow, Alaska, Aug. 1, 2012, as the crew prepares for a spilled oil recovery system exercise during Arctic Edge 2012. 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.