Freeing Presque Isle
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2010
- Northeast winds have pushed a heavy ice pack into the Western shoreline at the mouth of the St. Clair River. The 1000 foot Presque Isle has been pushed off course and a fleet of tugs and ice breakers work to free her.
I love this so much! That is my brother and Father to the left of you, and now 10 years since we lost my Dad I can see him and watch him in your video💖
Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks RUclips for giving Kelly this lovely memory !
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Damn that's deep 😶
I'm so happy for you that you have your dad on video!
Ahh the Presque Isle its like the SWIFT for the great lakes.
HI PORT HURON! I was across the river watching this at the time. I could pick out my friends truck and probably him and myself if the resolution was HD. Thanks for posting this its quite a trip seeing this from the American perspective and having the radio chatter to go along with it
This ship is cursed to run aground. The captain needs to make an offering to the deep.
Thank you so much for the video, I love to see this kind of stuff. The radio traffic dubbed with the video was really cool, gave you a sense of what was really happening.
Thank you, great work!
This is the second video of this ship running aground. The other video is in much warmer climate.
Tom Bulger just watched it! Hit the sea-wall in Duluth.
It’s is a 1000’ ship there are not many.
Garrett Falls ......13 ever to sail the Great Lakes.
Love Manitou`s CLASSIC Harbor Tug design. Never get tired trying to spot one. Getting rarer & rarer these days...Interesting video. Thanks for sharing !
She's not really a harbor tug, she's a former Coast Guard WYT Ice Breaking tug. The Great Lakes towing tugs are more harbor tugs, "virtually no cabins, just enough hull to keep the engine floating".
Great stuff!
Very similar to a situation we watched and listened to off Conneaut a couple years ago.
out standing video thankyou for sharing. Enjoyed..
I've seen videos showing Swedish and Finnish ice breakers at work...this is nice as well.
That's a ginormous ship! I can see that happening!!
The video response below tells more of this story. The Presque Isle had gotten further out into Lake Huron but out of the deep shipping channel. The decision was made to back it up a a quarter mile closer to the bridge and then try to turn eastward into the channel. My video begins once they reach that position. Thanks GreatLakesShips for the contribution. We must be neighbors!
The ships stay in contact with Canadian or American Coast Guard stations as they travel the lakes. These scanner channels are publicly known. I turn on the scanner and leave a digital recorder running while I'm out shooting.
There's another video of the Presque Isle when she ran aground at Duluth.
fast forward 10 years. tanks, utube
Never seen a lake boat sit as low in the water as the Presque Isle. No bow thrusters I gather.
Its times like this when your sure glad to see the Coast Guard and then you think about THAT again!!
I jump from the bridge support on the Canadian side every summer lol, there’s a good fry truck there too
When I was a kid my mom and I used to go eat lunch at some restaurant in either port Huron or sarnia in the spring to watch the ice break up and flow down river.
I stayed in Sarnia from Jan 1994 to the summer of 95, so witnessed two winters on the 2nd one a Laker came up stream with the captain wearing a top hat as he was the first through after the freeze. About the same time I went for a drive around the lake and it was an eary sound as some wash came across and was cracking the ice as it came,
My apartment was near the Legion Hall and I'd watch the Lakers go by sipping a coffee or gulping a beer on the balcony.
This ship keeps running aground
I just watched the video of this ship running aground in the canal.... This doesn't seem to be very lucky ship... I guess everybody took Pee tests on this day as well
They sure won't have that problem this year!
0:29 I guess ill never grow up. Still tho i love this stuff, thanks for the vids!
how did you get it so you could hear the people talking
Great ship.
Sounds like they need to run a dredge in this location.
It was wind and ice pushing it to port.
Bristol Bay second to none.
Those poor mariners don't have it easy in this kind of weather, thank GOD for the tugs and the Coast Guard Cutters!!!
Even empty, how was this massive ship blown off course?
Enter Duluth MN for more info.
I wonder what the hourly rate is for those commercial tugs?
Depends on a lot of factors. Often the shipping company will have a contract or pay a retainer fee to the tug outfit. I dont work on the Great Lakes so I'm not really sure but its $500-$2000 per hour generally.
I sometimes do lock assists that usually takes about an hour. The only crew is myself and a deckaneer and the fee is around $1000
Ain't the first time this same ship had troubles! Google it!
Are they not worried about Hull damage ??
Are they talking over megaphone, or is this radio communication superimposed over the audio?
1:57 RURKY BORK BORK!
Lmao
cool -
That thing seems to go aground alot.
Size of that beast, not surprised.
I can hear the roots blowers on the tug.
Good old non-turbo 16-645 just like a GP38 locomotive.
That's what I figured. My first boat had twin, naturally aspirated(single roots blower)8-645's. My second had twin 16-645 roots blown EMDs. The last boat I worked on had twin 710's
@@erikb8877 Cool, I worked on the Burns Harbor we had 4 turbo 20-645's. I'll take EMDs any day, worked on the Blough with her Pielsticks, and Ear W. Oglebay (Manitowoc) with the Alco's. Also worked on the tug Undaunted when she still had her Cleveland 12-278a's.
allot of chum in the water for the birds.
Is this not the same ship that ran aground struck a break water in Duluth Minnesota
Same one.
Does Pressure Isle have a deeper draft than other carriers?
Oops it did again, in Deluth, hit the breakwater and scratched it’s hull, AGAIN. “Who is ‘driving’”?????
@GreatLakesShips
haha
Sounds like some bow thrusters might be a good investment.
It’s stuck in the ice
I think it has them
@@NovemberFoxtrotRC No it drifted off course and was grounded!
@@douglashurd8652 No it doesn't! It is a Tug and Barge setup.
@@SimonElenor obviously it's not a laker.
It is not the first time
this current looks strong af.. Also why are there using loud speakers? Can't they use a radio?
Its overlaid with the video, what you're hearing is radio chatter. The current is from PI trying to free herself, if you look at the stern she's in gear and trying to get the stern swung around to clear water.
I believe current is around 7% here. I lived in Port Huron 45 years. LAKE HURON empties into the St.Clair River right at this spot. It always has been a tricky area for freighters. A little further down, the river makes a rather sharp turn. Freighters have sunk, rammed the retaining walls, turned sideways, you name it.
Put starboard engine in reverse, port engine forward, port bow thrusters 3/4 full , tromp it and go...
Too bad she's a ridged ITB or else she could have popped out of the notch and helped herself. The Dorothy Ann, and Joyce L. VanEnkenvort have done that on many occasions.
This ship is in few videos hitting shit
It's too long to control with just the rudder . it needs bow thrusters.
Has thrusters. The ice is sufficient and fast enough that the cutter had to break up the ice in front before they could move the ship toward the Canadian side and into deep water.
The captain of this ship is the most drug tested man on earth 😂
Total wadre of time!
+HANNES DE JAGER I don't know about that, but I would call it a total waste of time