Seagoing buoy tender USCGC Sycamore (WLB 209) anchors off the coast of Barrow, Alaska, July 30, 2012, as the crew prepares for a spilled oil recovery system (SORS) 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. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kelly Parker/Released)