http://www.duluthharborcam.com...-lakes-aquarium.html

I’ll try to figure out how to embed the video, but link should take you to page with video.

Right now, tugs standing by to try and knock off the bottom.

Aerial Bridge closed to shipping traffic; other lakers being diverted to Superior entry 5 miles away.

These are 1,000 ft vessels; I believe this laker got the bow caught by incoming current and couldn’t make the turn...and these lakers cannot stop on a dime.

I love that area of Duluth and have spent a lot of time watching the 1000 foot ships as they pass. I wonder what the cockpit (bridge) conversation was like.
Someone will get into trouble for that, and I feel bad for that, but nobody got arrested, nobody got pregnant and nobody got hurt so....

That thing's huge.
There is video here w/ phone footage.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.c...ground-duluth-harbor

We haven't seen one of the 1,000 footers yet. They're ugly ships though. We like the older ships. For example, this is a picture I took of the Wilfred Sykes (built in 1949, still powered by steam, and my 8 yo son's 4th favorite ship) leaving Port Calcite a few weeks ago:



We're going to the Soo Locks next week and hope to see some ships we normal wouldn't see.

Looks like it’s floated now. Video shows it lined up with Aerial Bridge with Coast Guard vessels apparently still interested...

Them boys otta invest in a Humminbird.

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Originally posted by rusbro:
Them boys otta invest in a Humminbird.

After the Edmund Fitzgerald sank, the NTSB recommended all ships on the Great Lakes be equipped with fathometers.

Groundings in cargo ports aren't uncommon.

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Originally posted by tacfoley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fH-F1I7Pro

You can see him really putting the coal to it using (I assume) full reverse. You can also see bottom and detritus being stirred up.

I think they are now moored at Calumet fuel dock (well, used to be Calumet Fuel...maybe now it's Husky fuel).

We just got back from a motorcycle trip to Duluth this weekend. Was fun watching the ships coming in and out, but wowzers, there are some seriously odd folks that walk Canal Park...