Ice patrol - U.S. Coast guard photo

NEW YORK - Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Ken Farah, of the International Ice Patrol in New London, Conn., searches for icebergs from an observation window in a Coast Guard HC-130J Hercules aircraft, from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 6, 2012. The mission of the International Ice Patrol is to monitor iceberg locations near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Canada, and provide updates to the maritime community. The tragic sinking of the passenger liner RMS Titanic in 1912 prompted the maritime nations with ships transiting the North Atlantic to establish an ice patrol in the area. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Thomas McKenzie.