Coast Guard completes ice breaking operation in lower Great Lakes
USCG Cutter Morro Bay file photoDetroit, Mich. – The end of Operation Coal Shovel, Thursday, brings the Coast Guard icebreaking season on the lower Great Lakes to a close.
Operations Coal Shovel and Taconite, the latter of which is still ongoing in the upper Great Lakes, are the largest bi-national domestic icebreaking efforts.
Operation Coal Shovel is carried out in the St. Lawrence Seaway,...
Coast Guard rescues man and his dog from icy Canadian river
USCG file photo
CLEVELAND – A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew from Air Station Detroit rescued a Canadian man and his dog after he became surrounded by ice and stranded while canoeing in a river near Kettle Point, Ontario, Tuesday night.
Personnel from Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre Trenton, Ontario, requested assistance from the U.S. Coast Guard around 7:45 p.m., after Ken Glendining,...
Coast Guard Cutter Morro Bay rescues man adrift on Lake Erie ice floe on his birthday
USCG Cutter Morro Bay file photo
CLEVELAND – Crewmembers from the New London, Conn.-based U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Morro Bay, a 140-foot ice breaking tug temporarily assigned to the Great Lakes, rescued a Canadian man from a piece of ice about four nautical miles southwest of Colchester, Ontario, at about 8:30 a.m., Wednesday.
Jim Turton, from Colchester, Ontario, turned 45 years old today.
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