Chesapeake Bay Frozen

“The ice in the northern parts of the Chesapeake is up to a foot thick in some places,” commented Mike Reagoso, Vice President of McAllister Towing’s Mid-Atlantic Operations. Record-breaking chilly mixed with regular wind has frozen over enormous swaths of Chesapeake Bay complicating maritime operations.

At the Annapolis Maritime Society comfortable hour occasion final night time a Maryland pilot remarked that upon leaving the Chesapeake-Delaware (C&D) Canal the opposite day, she took her vessel all the best way to Baltimore with out as soon as seeing open water.

“The ice makes piloting a bit more difficult because you can’t use radar to verify your position as the ice on shore reflects an inaccurate coastline.”

Reagoso forwarded us just a few photographs taken by his colleagues of what towing operations at the moment appear like:

John Shellenberger, one of many Captains on the Kaleen McAllister was breaking ice for a Kirby-owned vessel yesterday within the higher bay and took the next pictures:

Things weren’t a lot better within the southern stretches of the Chesapeake.

A Florida-based U.S. Navy warship moored in Yorktown, Virginia came upon the laborious approach that it doesn’t matter what kind of water hose you allow exterior, mom nature will freeze all of it the identical.

The following video exhibits Baltimore Harbor on Wednesday:

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