Ice Breakers: The Coast Guard Crews That Keep the Great Lakes Open for Business It takes small fleet of stalwart Coast Guard ships and their seasoned crews to keep $33.5 billion of shipping ...

Opinion: New icebreakers designed to deploy and service uncrewed systems would bolster a credible Arctic defense.

The Coast Guard's Operation Taconite, which started last week, is the agency's largest domestic ice breaking operation.The currently assigned areas for the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw and U.S ...

U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant Dan Jones said, “So, for the ice thickness for today, we’re looking about 8 to 12 inches of ice. Few places were jamming out and seeing over a foot of ice which ...

“The situation that we are facing here on Lake Erie is that we have greater ice thickness than usual, so local ice breakers and local Coast Guard vessels don’t have the capability to break ice ...

It seems like something that would happen at the North Pole, but each winter on the Hudson River, the Coast Guard deploys ice-breaking vessels. Without them, millions might not have heat for the ...

The 240-foot cutter performs ice breaking and helps navigation along with search and rescue efforts on the Great Lakes, according to the Coast Guard. The crew of the ice breaker had to be careful ...

The Neah Bay, a 140-foot ice-breaking tugboat from Ohio, arrived on the scene at 9 a.m. Saturday to help free the ship along with Samuel Risley from Ontario, the Coast Guard said.

“The situation that we are facing here on Lake Erie is that we have greater ice thickness than usual, so local ice breakers and local Coast Guard vessels don’t have the capability to break ice ...

“The situation that we are facing here on Lake Erie is that we have greater ice thickness than usual, so local ice breakers and local Coast Guard vessels don’t have the capability to break ice ...

“The situation that we are facing here on Lake Erie is that we have greater ice thickness than usual, so local ice breakers and local Coast Guard vessels don’t have the capability to break ice ...

“The situation that we are facing here on Lake Erie is that we have greater ice thickness than usual, so local ice breakers and local Coast Guard vessels don’t have the capability to break ice ...