“The situation that we are facing here on Lake Erie is that we have greater ice thickness than usual, so local ice breakers and local Coast Guard vessels don’t have the capability to break ice with ...

By David Andreatta A Canadian cargo freighter carrying 17 crew members that had been wedged in ice on Lake Erie for three ... and Canada deployed ice-breaking vessels to free it.

The National Weather Service has issued a marine weather statement for most of the U.S. side of Lake Erie stating that the ...

The Manitoulin, a 663-foot (202-meter) Canadian vessel with 17 people on board, got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie on Wednesday after it dropped ... sometimes run into ice that is too hard or thick to ...

The freighter that got trapped in thick ice on ... Coast Guard Ship Samuel Risley − will accompany the Manitoulin as long as needed as the freighter makes its way through Lake Erie and up ...

A Canadian freighter with 17 people on board got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie while departing Buffalo, according to the Coast Guard, which arrived with icebreaking equipment Thursday to begin ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards on Saturday continued efforts to break up ice and free a freighter that has been trapped in a frozen Lake Erie for days, officials said. The ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A lake freighter ship that was stuck in the ice in the Lake Erie shoreline in the Buffalo River since Wednesday was freed Saturday afternoon, the U.S. Coast Guard announced.

Lake Erie ice-coverage continues to increase and it's now at 91 percent. Lake Erie has the highest ice-coverage since January ...

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