{"id":9154,"date":"2017-12-28T20:43:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T01:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=9154"},"modified":"2017-12-28T20:51:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T01:51:26","slug":"coast-guard-responds-to-two-vessels-beset-by-ice-in-st-marys-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/28\/coast-guard-responds-to-two-vessels-beset-by-ice-in-st-marys-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard responds to two vessels beset by ice in St. Marys River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dec 28, 2017 @ 20:43<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: medium;\">The two vessels beset by ice in the St. Marys River were freed\u00a0Thursday afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: medium;\">The Coast Guard Cutter Biscayne Bay freed the motor vessel\u00a0Walter J. McCarthy from the ice in the upbound Middle Neebish Channel of the St. Marys River at\u00a0approximately 2:00 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">T<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times;\">he Canadian Coast Guard Ship Samuel Risley freed the motor vessel motor vessel\u00a0Edgar B. Speer from the ice near Sawmill Point in the downbound channel of the St. Marys River at\u00a0approximately 3:00 p.m.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: medium;\">The motor vessel Walter J. McCarthy became stuck in the ice late Wednesday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: medium;\">The\u00a0motor vessel Edgar B. Speer became stuck in the ice at approximately 4 a.m. Thursday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: medium;\">A total of twelve vessels were affected by the restriction of the waterway posed by the vessels stuck in the ice.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Dec 28, 2017 @ 14:43<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: medium;\">The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Biscayne Bay crew is working to free\u00a0the motor vessel Walter J. McCarthy\u00a0from the ice in the up-bound Middle Neebish Channel of\u00a0the St. Marys River, Thursday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: medium;\">After freeing the\u00a0Walter\u00a0J. McCarthy, the\u00a0Biscayne\u00a0Bay will then\u00a0break out the motor vessel\u00a0Edgar\u00a0B. Speer\u00a0from the ice near Sawmill Point in the down-bound channel of the St.\u00a0Marys River. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: medium;\">The Canadian Coast Guard Ship\u00a0Samuel\u00a0Risley\u00a0is scheduled\u00a0to arrive on scene at noon\u00a0and will assist the\u00a0Biscayne\u00a0Bay with ice breaking operations.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: medium;\">Since the two vessels are currently stuck in the ice, up-bound and down-bound transits are currently restricted\u00a0in the St. Marys River. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: medium;\">There are five vessels waiting to proceed down-bound and four vessels waiting to\u00a0proceed up-bound in the St. Marys River.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 28, 2017 @ 20:43 The two vessels beset by ice in the St. Marys River were freed\u00a0Thursday afternoon. The Coast Guard Cutter Biscayne Bay freed the motor vessel\u00a0Walter J. McCarthy from the ice in the upbound Middle Neebish Channel of the St. Marys River at\u00a0approximately 2:00 p.m.\u00a0The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Samuel Risley freed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1110],"class_list":["post-9154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northern-ontario","tag-ice"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 05:57:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9155,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions\/9155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}