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Sailors clear ice from the crew hatch aboard Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Alexandria, March 18, 2007. Alexandria surfaced through three feet of ice during ICEX-07, a U.S. Navy and Royal Navy exercise conducted on and under a drifting ice floe about 180 nautical miles off the north coast of Alaska.

USS ALEXANDRIA

Sailors clear ice from the crew hatch aboard Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Alexandria, March 18, 2007. Alexandria surfaced through three feet of ice during ICEX-07, a U.S. Navy and Royal Navy exercise conducted on and under a drifting ice floe about 180 nautical miles off the north coast of Alaska.

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