Ice Rules the Lakes, but the Icebreakers Fight Back!

January 2017 Multimedia

See this video taken by Benjamin Feinman, deck officer and relief captain aboard the 1,000-foot freighter, James R. Barker, as the ship is rescued from the ice by the Coast Guard icebreaker Mackinaw. Ice routinely covers great swaths of the Great Lakes, sometimes lasting into the summer. But the Coast Guard is ready to meet that challenge bow-on.

 

 

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