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North Channel to see heavy icebreaking operations as early as Friday

Locations include, but are not limited to Bruce Mines, Thessalon, Spragge and McGregor Bay
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Canadian Coast Guard Ship Samuel Risley. Darren Taylor/SooToday

NEWS RELEASE
FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA
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The Canadian Coast Guard has an important updated safety message for all ice surface users in the vicinity of icebreaking operations and shipping routes in the Great Lakes. Icebreaking operations to assist commercial shipping are currently underway in various areas of the Great Lakes. The following area will see icebreaking activity in the near future:

Icebreaking operations may begin as early as April 27 in the North Channel of Lake Huron until ice is no longer a concern for safe navigation. Locations include, but are not limited to Bruce Mines, Thessalon, Spragge and McGregor Bay.

The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Samuel Risley is assigned to this icebreaking mission. Dates and routes are subject to change with little or no notice, due to weather, ice conditions, shipping schedules or other unexpected situations.

Broken and fragmented icy tracks left behind by icebreaking operations and other ship traffic may not freeze over immediately. Newly fallen snow may obscure icebreaker and ship tracks and changes in weather contribute to unsafe ice conditions that may remain long after the ships have left the area. All ice on or near the planned shipping routes and icebreaking operations should be considered unsafe during and after ship transits through these routes.

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