U.S. Coast Guardsmen aboard the buoy tender USCGC Sycamore (WLB 209) help steady an oil skimmer as a crane begins to lift it from the ship's deck to place it in the water Aug. 2, 2012, in the Arctic Ocean near Barrow, Alaska. The operation was part of an oil recovery scenario held during exercise Arctic Edge 2012, a U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Coast Guard, state, local and tribal exercise designed to test the Spilled Oil Recovery System in the waters surrounding the Arctic regions of Alaska. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kelly Parker/Released)