Biscayne Bay helps Mesabi Miner helps Quebecois and CSL Assiniboine

The winter months of January thru April in Duluth Minnesota in 2007 provided examples of good winter fun, ships stuck in the ice, and other ships helping them get out of the ice. Includes video of ride on the Coast Guard ice breaker Biscayne Bay while she broke a path through thick ice reaching 5 miles beyond the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge.

[@rongjerning8370]

Thank you for a very good story on harbor traffic in our great Duluth Superior harbor. And then to hear the real life of dealing with the lake ice and the various ships trying to make their way thru.

[@476grace]

How

[@TheByard]

I spent the two winter of 1994/5 living and working at Sarnia Ontario constructing the 2nd St Clair River Tunnel. I can remember those fishermen in there tents, I even went out and spoke with them once. The Lakers in Harbour had compressed air bubbling around their stern gear to help prevent icing up. Pleasure boats on the hard wrapped in shrink wrap poly. We even had to rent a warehouse to warm up the precast concrete tunnel lining segments, otherwise the ram pressure of the Tunnel Boring Machine would crack them as they were very brittle. I lived in an apartment on Fore Street and so had a grandstand view of the river, after work I could sit there sipping a beer or three and watch the Lakers pass by. In the summer time of course looking away from the river there was the police overflow parking ( doughnut shop) Made a lot of friends during my stay there, sailed on the lake, watch the local ice hockey team. Even had friends over the river one being a Sargent in the Michigan police and drum major of the pipe band, his wife was an immigration officer on the Bluewater Bridge. The best time and sadly when we were leaving was to have pipers playing us into a bar for our leaving do, I say us we were the three Senior Inspectors of Works, not only did we have a great send off but also raised money via an auction of tunnel mementos, this was passed onto the local radio station for those in need I must go back some time, before it's to late. But then retired in sunny Vietnam with ice in drinks being the only freezing problem maybe not.

[@judyscheiber3661]

What a wonderful video! Well done!

[@TOTALCAMARO]

Great story. “give her all you got” lol 😂 Great job, great team work. I love it. Thank You for doing this story. ❤️

[@stamrly418]

Nice story of the shipping in the ice. A big thumbs up Amacf

[@terrencebradley5417]

Thanks for posting. Great video.

[@jonesey65244]

This was great. Thank you so much.

[@ricklipp4029]

Great job I enjoyed your video

[@robertpapps3618]

Enjoyed, thanks much!

[@johnstark4723]

lol, I remember in I believe 1971 or 1972 coming home from school on the bus and ships just getting free'd from the ice.....it was June 6th! Last day of school.

[@lowercherty]

71. Persistent NE winds kept the ice jammed up against the Twin Ports and ground the ice into a slurpee type consistency. This was very hard to move ships through.

[@marcelpoitras8250]

Better than Angiosperms tamarind jelly on a Pluto reef teeth,,,the flow of the guy, guy high type, Cy's stuff dude!

[@stephensmith799]

Please excuse my lack of knowledge, but why are forward superstructures not present on the more recent vessels? (I do dig the old look.)

[@northstarstatepolitics1652]

design has changed. Ships aren't built to look good anymore, they're built purely to be fuctional and useful for carrying goods.

[@stephendjames2610]

Sad thing is the Naticoke is shut down very shortly, It seem Ontario does not need coal anymore.. Not sure what will happen to the employees there.