The Manitoulin got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie on Wednesday after it dropped off a load of wheat in Buffalo, New York
U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Detroit deploys a helicopter crew to conduct overflights of the Canadian vessel Manitoulin, while it was trapped in a frozen Lake Erie on Jan. 25 near Buffalo, N.Y.A freighter is on the move after it was freed from ice that trapped it in a frozen Lake Erie for days, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The ship wasn’t damaged, and its crew is safe, officials said. Freighters in the Great Lakes often encounter surface ice in the winter but sometimes run into ice that is too hard or thick to break through.
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