This is what I went to the canal for ! Indiana Harbor into the wind and waves!

[@348Tobico]

So few people who don't get to see the Great Lakes, understand the giant ships that sail these waters. I have heard from so many who visit for the first time and get to see a storm on any of the Greats that they thought the Lakes were just big calm lakes you could look across and play in any time. Those of us blessed to live close know they truly are "inland seas" that have the fury of their salt cousins. I pity those who don't live close enough to visit them and see the ships and the beauty to understand why these Lakes are absolutely the beating heart of this nation.

[@martinfehr9043]

I could sit there all day watching ships come and go in Duluth! Never see any thing like that in Manitoba! Nice vid!

[@billietyree6139]

Thanks. I was coal passer on one of these ships in1949 - 50 before I joined the regular Marines. The boat I was on was built in 1914 and had a three cylinder, three phase engine similar to the center engine of the Titanic. Loved it.

[@kenprevatt1267]

Hope this message finds you well sir and thank you so very much for your service to this great country . God bless

[@jennifermichael3305]

Thank you for your service Billie!

[@larrymartin8146]

That ship completely changed the current, displaced soo much water. Stunning.

[@thebluehotel426]

Stunning. I can't even imagine how that thing floats, let alone propels itself. Really a feat of engineering.

[@ShipsoftheOceans]

Build a hotel and few houses on deck.

[@spitfirenutspitfirenut4835]

Obviously Blue Hotel is not educated.

[@spitfirenutspitfirenut4835]

@@austingulick It's a fact.

[@CuriousEarthMan]

If I'm not mistaken, they use dozens of styrofoam cups, duct taped to the hull. really not 100% sure though :)

[@stonecoldfan3167]

Phenomenal all I got to say is just phenomenal got to love these mammoths of the great lakes.

[@richardjohnson2965]

I love the North Shore..been here many times. My dad was a Great Lakes sailor when I was a kid...love the big boats. Superior is awesome in all weather.

[@elonmust7470]

The great lakes are the gayest bodies of water with the biggest losers, in the whole entire world.

[@g.k.1669]

Been on that freighter before when I had to repair the ship's umbilical communication cable when it was unable to "talk" to the Bailey computer that speeds up or slows down the conveyor belt depending on the offload rate. The crew appreciates when you offer them free leather gloves with a really great lunch in return. Two things that I find interesting is how the first crewmember to leave the boat to begin tying off the freighter has to be lowered off of the side holding onto a cable while seated on a wooden plank while the bow and stern thrusters push it against the loading dock bumpers. The several layer thick ice covering the ships in the late fall or early spring are neat to look at with angled massive icicles.

[@scootertrash911]

That is called a Boatswain's Chair I believe, at least in the USCG.

[@ninemilliondollars]

Great story! My father worked at Inland Steel and made the steel from the iron ore the ships brought in.

[@rvnmedic1968]

Excellent videography, including slo-mo with the head-on waves. Cheers from upstate NY. Bob

[@ShipsoftheOceans]

I agree its excellent.

[@dobiedude7479]

I used to watch the ships passing by when I was living there. Nice video.

[@calvinsusanwebber3414]

I worked on the construction of the first 1000 footer the stewart j. cort in Erie pa.

[@paulbergen9114]

The thousands of crew members who set off in weather like this. No doubt many prayers were said and thoughts of family and.fear raced thru their minds. Most make it but some fall prey to the waves. It truly is the call of the sea. Glad you weren't swept away.

[@PaulScinocca]

I cannot imagine being not a bit on edge out there during the storms.

[@kathieludwig4578]

Thanks for sharing this!!

[@jameswright2558]

Thanks Paul, kick ass day, I'd have second thoughts about leaving that harbor fully loaded.

[@johnstark4723]

I used to live in Duluth and could watch the ships from the house. I loved it up there. Oddly enough I moved to Indiana from there and I'm back in Indiana now.

[@highwinds71]

John Stark hey at least you got away from this town , seems like I'll never get out of this state or this town

[@johnstark4723]

Dragon Heart I wish I was still there. Damn I loved it there.

[@ronjohnson9507]

@@highwinds71 just take what you can carry and leave dull uth behind

[@Z-Bart]

I loaded this ship many times at Taconite Harbor with 56,000 tons of taconite pellets. 1990-1992 era.

[@kittymuffins6484]

That is super cool.

[@jennifermichael3305]

Totally cool!

[@outdoorsforever1027]

My father Sailed on the Indiana Harbor at that time also, 1st assistant. Small world

[@tawnyschlienz9063]

Cook County resident? Or Lake County?

[@Z-Bart]

@@tawnyschlienz9063 Yes.

[@mattportnoyTLV]

I have a house on Lake Michigan near the port of Indiana. We see these big freighters all the time.

[@oldtgr7624]

I thought your comment was neat. Forget the naysayers.

[@shariys1]

BEAUTIFUL!!! Love to watch those big gals ride the wild surf!💜

[@TheSpacetrucker72]

I live in NH and whenever a ship comes into Portsmouth the Moran tugs assist it upriver to either Portsmouth or Newington but we don't get anything bigger than 600 feet. Usually salt ships and oil and propane ships but its always impressive to see them come in cuz they are so damn big! Apparently we have like the 3rd strongest current in America? Plus we have the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard which services Navy attack subs so we get to see those bad boys come in and out occasionally. The USS Miami fire happened here.

[@stanleyfistick9414]

I owned and captained a dragger that l docked at Shaftmaster Fish & Lobster in Newington. This was in the 1980's. I'm a landlubber now up in the mountains. I still get over to Portsmouth on occasion. Miss being on the ocean...it's a great life.

[@katherinenyberg7891]

I love your videos- Thank you for sharing them!

[@ShipsoftheOceans]

Agreed.

[@highwinds71]

My dad use to work on the Indiana harbor , I lived in Duluth my entire life I see ships often coming in and out of port . Good video though

[@dennisbanks706]

I live in bemidji!

[@dennisbanks706]

The cold look of the fresh water makes me miss Minnesota....

[@elonmust7470]

Just go to the fuckin ocean bitch.

[@pudermcgavin4462]

Mn native and one of my fav things when I can is spend a day in Duluth harbor. Sadly haven't seen a lot of ships in and out cuz 3hrs away lol

[@25mfd]

tossing my cookies just looking at all that wave action. i'm a land lubber for sure. nice vid.

[@rogerb5615]

Love that ships horns "conversation"! I remember similar sounds on the Monongahela in Pittsburgh 50 years ago.

[@dustin9035]

Gordon Lightfoot would love to sing about that ship!

[@peopleddiagram2920]

Great footage! I love it when I get news from people as opposed from corrupt corporations :)

[@peopleddiagram2920]

ΝΟΜΛ It is news to me. I have not seen this before. Go back to CNN and let them impart the awe and wonder that real people can't film.

[@sandysmithvideos228]

great guest quarters on her, but it will be a long night eastbound to the Soo.

[@braddavis4377]

Like the opening of star wars: the long ship crawl lol Nice video

[@jeffersonspace]

Cold shoulder to the wheel Mr. Paul. Bless

[@PaulScinocca]

😁 Thanks

[@tawnyschlienz9063]

Duluth/ Superior Harbor. I've seen ships come n go all day. Pack a lunch n enjoy. Remember to bring a warm jacket, it can get chilly there

[@PaulScinocca]

Indeed, I have additional clothing in my camera backpack just in case...

[@donvaughn146]

What did you expect? Superior can be a real wakeup call no matter the season! I took my soon to be wife to Duluth in August years ago, and she wanted to dip her feet in the lake. Go for it, I told her! Oh, I spent many summers on the lake... over in Ashland, WI. OK, Jeanne is up to her knees and commenting on the water temps... as a Laker departed five minutes prior. I didn't say anything about that wave approaching.. hey, she wanted to experience Lake Superior!! Oh, what she said once that wave hit her!! I've on the beach laughing.. I told her, Superior is an experience!

[@DetroitThor]

Don Vaughn That’s funny Don, have to admit that probably do that same thing. Back in 1967, when I was 7, we vacationed on Superior in June. Begged my dad to let me wade in. Got to knee deep and a wave hit me up to my chest. You’d have thought I was shot out of a cannon getting out.

[@chrisk8187]

I've NEVER seen so many ore boat videos in a row! I need to get a pizza delivered in order to have enough energy to view all of these......

[@PaulScinocca]

I hope they are worth your time!

[@robertfitzsimmons9428]

Without any tenders or tugs👍👍👍. Bad ass Captain

[@PaulScinocca]

Rarely to the lakers use tenders or tugs. They are very good at their jobs!

[@scdevon]

Great wave action. Thanks for sharing. Nice photography and editing.

[@TheByard]

I lived in Sarnie Ont. for a year back in 1994, had an apartment right on the St Clair River and would love to spend my time watching the Lakers pass up and down. I was employed on the construction of the CN railway tunnel this would then do away with the oversize rail traffic ferries. Strangely one of my friends worked the ferries and the tunnel would do him out of a job. Another friend I met there had a sail boat and we would spend time out on Lake Huron in the summer, he played ice hokey in the winter and the bag pipes. Man it was the strangest posting I've ever had and one of the most enjoyable.

[@PaulScinocca]

cool info! Thanks

[@sammysouth8372]

Excellent video. Thank you

[@leonardosimoes4012]

I love these ships. 🤩🤩🤩

[@PaulScinocca]

As do I!

[@SSHitMan]

I thought that looks like no harbor in Indiana I've ever seen... then realize it's the name of the ship.

[@shithead_garage]

Lol

[@HuntGamingProductions]

there is a harbor in indiana tho

[@justinlatvamaki2365]

This the duluth Harbor

[@Clickumentary]

Got me too :)

[@Tsamokie]

@@justinlatvamaki2365 Duluth*

[@peterclarke945]

Whoa ........ just watched this on full-screen !!! Kinda scary ! Great work, Paul.

[@racketyjack7621]

I was a boatswainsmate in the USN back in the 70's and '80's. Loved sea and anchor detail when it was stormy. One of us always had to man the anchor windlass controls and be ready to release the anchor pelican hook; I'd always volunteer. Ran ships boats, did underway replenishments, and helo flight quarters in some lousy weather too. To me, it was a challenge and exciting. Salt spray is what makes ya salty. 😉

[@PaulScinocca]

Nice! and you made it out alive with all those risks 😁

[@MervynPartin]

If it's as rough as that in the canal, It's going to be even rougher on the open sea- Happy(?) memories! Great video-hope you didn't get splashed by the waves.

[@firebrand07]

Great vid showing a glimpse of Great Lake living.

[@epsvideos]

Great footage, thanks for sharing

[@ShipsoftheOceans]

That is something I have done more than once with good videos.

[@christisgod3354]

Love those 1000 footers.

[@atgordon1948]

1 long and 2 short whistles used to be the signal to lift the bridge at Duluth ... no longer needed with the advent of marine radio, but now used as a courtesy to the bridge operator, who will acknowledge using the same signal. Used once more when clear of the bridge to signal "vessel clear, OK to lower."

[@deetjay1]

Holy shit...Shiver me timbers, mate!

[@PaulScinocca]

LOL

[@eligebrown8998]

Finly a video with the bridge being lowered also. Well done sir

[@PaulScinocca]

Thanks!

[@MegaSnow121]

Those waves are impressive! Great video!

[@PaulScinocca]

Thanks a lot!

[@lastrick08]

We went about two weeks ago and waited around for the ships that were supposed to come in....nothing. But this is a very good substitute...thanks!

[@MegaGivenGrace]

This is really awesome! I loved living near Superior. Miss it!

[@TOTALCAMARO]

Bring it on and do your best Superior Your Not Going to stop me from 😅reaching my destination ❤

[@albertosilvadesouza997]

THANK YOU VERY GOOD BEAUTIFUL GOOD job blessing ...

[@floridatireterminal9225]

Great Video. Thank you for your efforts. It looks dark and cold in Minny. Heck, My pool water is up to 84 degrees here in Florida

[@tomgates316]

Florida Tire Terminal This was some rainy weather that followed a week of record high temps for May in MN. The water in the pool that week was cozy warm. 🙂

[@skipdow3]

Complete with alligator to show to your friends.............

[@MF11283]

In each video of yours I sit here and trip out how vertical the bow of these ships are. I get it these are great lakes ships and I'm used to seeing huge ocean container ships and bulk carriers just trips me out everything

[@PaulScinocca]

With the short distances, they design these ships for cargo capacity, not efficiency. They determined the profit on the extra cargo exceeds the savings they would get with the sleek bow.

[@MF11283]

@@PaulScinocca they also don't have to deal with ocean waves which is a large purpose of prow. Just trips me out to see them so vertical

[@emmyakidi7048]

Oh my God am afraid now because of wind 🌬. Watching from Biafra land

[@netrhyda8761]

very nice footage!

[@terryboyer1342]

Waves like that still in the canal. Amazing!

[@40ounce58]

Engineering at its finest! Cool video!

[@garryjones7893]

I'm an Aussie used to sailing in the Pacific. The Great Lakes are a tad too hairy for me!

[@PaulScinocca]

No way! Those Pacific waves must get huge!

[@davidwadsworth8982]

Lake Superior, Ocean withot sharks.

[@shithead_garage]

I guess you could say it looks like the ocean if you’re standing on the shore, but the ocean is saltwater, Lake Superior is freshwater.

[@ianyoung740]

@@shithead_garage Really? The ocean is saltwater and Lake Superior is freshwater? Wow. We had no idea.

[@mikecorleone6797]

🤣🤣 the gold i stumbled upon here

[@scottbc31h22]

The Great Lakes can actually be more dangerous than the open ocean, in a storm.

[@davidwadsworth8982]

@@scottbc31h22 I miss working on them,miss Duluth good port town.

[@brentj.peterson6070]

can't imagine what the Edmund Fitzgerald delt with that fateful day. Also the Arthur Anderson.

[@PaulScinocca]

Nor can I.

[@donrobertson4611]

Well Done !!!

[@williammielenz3752]

That ship could've sunk the entire Spanish Armada in one pass.

[@alant3970]

Fine video - thanks

[@roboftherock]

If wave action was ever to be classified, then this state would qualify for 'very vigorous'.

[@PaulScinocca]

Nice !

[@TWLML420]

the Captain just phoned it in on that second salute.

[@PaulScinocca]

Lol

[@michiwonderoutdoors2282]

Wow! That is fantastic!

[@nate4745]

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms, she left fully loaded for Cleveland......

[@markswedeen3346]

Well I can say that wasn’t The gales of November! The legend it is said never gives up her dead .... I absolutely love the Duluth and the big freighters! Nate, you obviously are not a 25 year old. The kids nowadays Have never heard that song, Or what it means. Have a good one.

[@christopherdigiovanni7864]

I saw so many bigger ships like that on Lake Ontario many times when they sailed past Rochester, NY, my hometown whenever I went to a beach there all times. Too bad, they neither stop at Port of Rochester nor sailed through a “canal” which itself is Genesee River even the city has a port there. Yes, the beach has two long piers.

[@michaeltaylor8835]

So much power in the vid

[@549BR]

You couldn't pay me enough to work on one of those ships.

[@thomasrobinson6073]

Great video.

[@ShipsoftheOceans]

It sure is Thomas.

[@dansmolen1618]

Water looks especially warm today!

[@justinmyslive4108]

Amazing how something that big and massive can float

[@mylespovey]

Displacement

[@matthewiverson8839]

Thought the harbor is closed in December to March. But its pretty cool sites to see

[@PaulScinocca]

shipping season ends usually 2nd week of Jan. This was shot in November 2018. 🙂

[@judyscheiber3661]

She doesn't even budge in those seas with huge waves. She's loaded and nothing is going to make her move.

[@ShipsoftheOceans]

Exactly I agree.

[@xaiano794]

♫ So far away we wait for the day - For the lives all so wasted and gone - We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days ♬Through the wind and the waves we carry on.....

[@labarone8910]

Great & unusual video. I presume this vessel is a Lakes ship? Odd shaped bow, hardly designed for speed (or waves come to that). PS Ignore the random idiots. They have no idea how the food reaches their tables..It's just...there!

[@davemanley3427]

It is a thousand foot bulk carrier that runs across Lake Superior and Lake Michigan a lot. They have the flat round nose and rectangular cross section to maximize displacement while fitting through a rectangular lock. They are recognizable by flat sides and flat bottoms. They have a conveyor belt running front to back and the whole boat can be unloaded by the boom in half a day or so. They haul bulk cargoes, usually iron ore (Taconite) and coal. Don't let the barge like looks fool you, though. Lake Superior can throw out some waves that would make an Admiral lose his lunch, and these boats just take it in stride. Indiana Harbor is in its 40th season on the lakes and is one of the newer vessels. Due to their size, they are limited to the upper four lakes and they never get near salt water. They are fascinating boats.

[@katherinenyberg7891]

La Barone I believe the maximum speed is 15 mph. You'd have to convert that to knots.

[@JostVanWair]

Its a different design dumas

[@kittymuffins6484]

@La barone It's all those tin cans (for food) in this great country, keeps her and her lake mates hoppin!

[@chcgo2undaground]

I thought Great Lakes freighters had the bridge at the front of the ship and not near the stern, like crude carriers?

[@PaulScinocca]

The older vessel are designed that way, the newer vessel is this design.

[@FSEVENMAN]

wow incredible Hydro Dynamics at play that ship displaces a lot of water

[@markdemers735]

One of your best my friend!

[@blackdiamondexpress1889]

The ships wake is insane

[@stonecoldfan3167]

I love watching these mammoth beasts!!

[@naybreed]

I decided to watch it again. Jerome.

[@andrewnorris1514]

Did you hit up the Anchor Bar?

[@PaulScinocca]

🤣 been there, done that.

[@ashscott6068]

I don't get whether those barriers are to stop ships going through the canal deliberately, or accidentally. I just know they wouldn't do either.

[@shawnbottom4769]

I think you’re talking about the truss-framed bridge that spans the canal. You’re quite right though, if the bridge was lowered, a ship that size would mangle it like it was made from toothpicks.

[@bjlaitsproductions]

Oh hey, I live there

[@PaulScinocca]

Great place to live!

[@edwardmounsey9208]

Thank you for posting. Noticed the absence of the usual crowd of onlookers?

[@PaulScinocca]

Fair weather brings out the crowds..

[@ZomBeeNature]

...Deep in the Pacific Ocean the waves get rough...

[@PaulScinocca]

Lake Superior waves will never get as rough as the ocean! I hope... :-)

[@ianross806]

East wind, loaded freighter, recipe for crazy wave action in the canal.

[@PaulScinocca]

Indeed!

[@gusneaker]

Impressive!!

[@maynardreed8374]

Neat to see in person. Is sure hate to pay the fuel bill on it though.

[@jakemcormick]

Love it!!!!!!!

[@jillgardiner8924]

I can't believe these ships have such a blunt bow. Would like to see their hull design. Is it just because they are a lakes boat? Cheers from Downunder.

[@maysnow461]

Absolutely Erie, pun intended!!!

[@skipdow3]

Interesting saxophone sound.

[@rickochoa366]

I'm assuming that going into the great lakes?

[@PaulScinocca]

heading into Lake Superior

[@JostVanWair]

*Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald intensifies*

[@birneyphillips6349]

Paul, I got wet just watching it. Have a great day