Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DC Fire and EMS is operating ice cutter boat that has been breaking through two to three inches of ice. Boat pilot Rich Schaffer ...

USCGC Polar Star (WAGB 10) responds to a request for assistance from an Australian-owned cruise ship stuck in the ice along the Ross Sea amid Operation Deep Freeze 2026 on the cutter’s 50th birthday, ...

STRAITS OF MACKINAC, MI – The frozen Straits of Mackinac served as a rare classroom for a U.S. Coast Guard ice rescue crew ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The U.S. Coast Guard shared an update Saturday on efforts to free the ice-bound ship stuck on Lake Erie since Wednesday. Several ice cutter ships are being used to break the ice ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to include the latest information made available by the U.S. Coast Guard. The U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes escorted a freighter through Lake Erie Wednesday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Icy conditions on the Hudson River required Coast Guard cutter ships to free other boats as cold temperatures persisted across the ...

A cruise ship that became lodged in the ice during a voyage to Antarctica was freed by the US Coast Guard. On 17 January, the Cutter Polar Star responded the distress calls from the Scenic Eclipse II ...