Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes District | 03.27.2015
The Coast Guard Cutters Mobile Bay and Katmai Bay come together in the St. Marys River to pass over supplies to each other to keep both cutters operational during an escort of the Algoma Olympic, Friday, March 27, 2015. The cutters are working alongside the commercial fleet in the Great Lakes to deliver important economic cargo during Operation Taconite. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. Michael......
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes District | 03.27.2015
Petty Officer 2nd Class Dan Ellis, a food service specialist aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Katmai Bay, prepares lunch on a barbecue while the cutter escorts a commercial ship down the St. Marys River, Friday, March 27, 2015. The Katmai Bay is working alongside the commercial fleet to help move important economic cargo throughout the Great Lakes as part of Operation Taconite. (U.S. Coast Guard......
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes District | 03.22.2015
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Mobile Bay, a 140-foot ice-breaking tug, conducts a side tow of the barge PML Ironmaster near the entrance to Mud Lake near the junction light along the St. Marys River, Sunday, March 22, 2015. The barge was left hove to in the ice in January and, during ice flushing operations conducted by the Coast Guard cutters Mobile Bay and Katmai Bay, broke free and was......
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes District | 03.22.2015
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Mobile Bay, a 140-foot ice-breaking tug, conducts a side tow of the barge PML Ironmaster near the entrance to Mud Lake near the junction light along the St. Marys River, Sunday, March 22, 2015. The barge was left hove to in the ice in January and, during ice flushing operations conducted by the Coast Guard cutters Mobile Bay and Katmai Bay, broke free and was......
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes District | 03.09.2015
A crewmember aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Neah Bay fakes out a line on the fantail of the Neah Bay as the cutter attempts to break free a motor vessel in the St. Clair River, March 9, 2015. The Neah Bay is working under the direction of Operation Coal Shovel, which is the ice breaking operation in the eastern and southern part of the Great Lakes. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman James Becker)...
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes District | 03.09.2015
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Neah Bay breaks ice on the St. Clair River as is clears a lane for the motor vessel John J. Carrick, March 9, 2015. The Neah Bay is working under the direction of Operation Coal Shovel, which is the ice breaking operation in the eastern and southern part of the Great Lakes. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman James Becker)...
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes District | 03.08.2015
Crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay take a dip in Lake Erie at sunset with the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Griffon and the motor vessel Algoma Hansa in the background, March 8, 2015. The crews of the Brstol Bay and Griffon created a path through the ice the during the day, before taking a break in the evening and waiting out the wind, which was closing lanes as fast as they were......
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes District | 03.08.2015
The motor vessel Algoma Hansa sits in a frozen Lake Erie near a wind row created by the Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay, March 8, 2015. The Bristol Bay's escort of the Algoma Hansa was called to a hault due to high winds, which were closing lanes as fast as the icebreakers were opening them. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Nick Gould)...
