Video provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows Bristol Bay breaking ice near Manitoulin, a freighter stuck in Lake Erie off the Buffalo shoreline.

An ice-cutting barge, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay, was dispatched earlier today to help free the freighter from the snow and ice field. Coast Guard officials said ice-breaking measures ...

It’s unclear how long it might take to cut the Canadian freighter Manitoulin out of the Lake Erie ice, which is thick this year.

Operation Coal Shovel started Tuesday, and involves U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay along with U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Morro Bay working in the upper Lake St. Clair and St. Clair River areas.

Icebreaking efforts −including the arrival of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay to Buffalo on Thursday − are underway, and crews reportedly continued on Friday. “The situation that we ...

The lake freighter Manitoulin is immobilized by thick ice in Lake Erie outside the Buffalo River breakwall as it awaits the arrival of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay, which is en route from ...

The lake freighter Manitoulin is immobilized by thick ice in Lake Erie outside the Buffalo River breakwall as it awaits the arrival of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay which is en route from ...

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