![Overflight of swollen lower Mississippi [VIDEO]](https://gcaptain.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-19-at-1.59.03-PM.png)
Check out this video of a Coast Guard overflight of the lower Mississippi shot on May 18.
On a positive note, the disaster is driving some good PR for the U.S. inland waterways industry, an industry that often goes overlooked in main stream media.
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The United States is watching China's presence in its Arctic zone "very closely" amid concerns regarding the security of the US homeland, a senior US Arctic military official said.
The U.S. Coast Guard’s icebreaker Healy will not carry out its planned high-latitude Arctic mission this summer following a serious engineering casualty in July, a spokesperson said. The statement provides the clearest indication yet of the impact of the incident on the Coast Guard’s key icebreaker.
U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy suffered a significant engineering casualty during post-refit sea trials off the Washington coast before being towed back to Seattle on July 13 for an investigation and major repairs, the Coast Guard told gCaptain.
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