Petty Officer 3rd Class Kyle Abel, a boatswain's mate aboard the Seattle based 399 foot Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea, plots a course of the cutter on a nautical map as it cruises through Gastineau Channel before mooring at the South Franklin Pier Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. Abel, a resident of Readfield, Wisc., who has been a crew member aboard the Polar Sea for two and a half years recently received an Arctic Service Medal for the cutter's Arctic West Fall 2009 deployments. (Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Walter Shinn)