LAKE ERIE - A day after a U.S. Coast Guard cutter arrived to break a cargo-hauling freighter free from the snow and ice that encased it, the 663-foot Manitoulin remained stuck late Friday.

Kyle Rivera of the Coast Guard. The freighter has to travel the rest of Lake Erie and then go up the Detroit and St. Clair rivers to Sarnia, Ontario, where it will spend the rest of the winter ...

This year's ice coverage is significantly higher than the past two years, with Lake Erie reaching 92.9% coverage ... reaching 925 feet at maximum. Lake Ontario: 283 feet in average depth, maximum ...

Kyle Rivera of the Coast Guard. The freighter has to travel the rest of Lake Erie and then go up the Detroit and St. Clair rivers to Sarnia, Ontario, where it will spend the rest of the winter ...

Ontario, when it became lodged just over a mile offshore. This is just another effect of the arctic temperatures that impacted Western New York earlier this week and took Lake Erie from around 30% ...

A Canadian freighter with 17 people on board got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie while departing Buffalo ... of wheat and was heading back to Sarnia, Ontario, on Wednesday when it became stuck ...

(WOOD) — U.S. Coast Guard crews continue to work Friday to free a Canadian freighter stuck in ice on Lake Erie. According to ... port to return to Sarnia, Ontario, only to be caught in rapidly ...

Related video above: Freighter gets stuck on Lake Erie ice: Coast Guard near Port ... off a load of wheat and was heading back to Sarnia, Ontario, on Wednesday when it became stuck in ice that ...

DON'T MISS: Winter hasn't been so kind to Ontario's snowbelt regions so far However, amidst the expanding ice coverage on Lake Erie, the Manitoulin, a 201-metre cargo freighter with 17 people ...

A Canadian freighter with 17 people on board got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie while departing Buffalo ... of wheat and was heading back to Sarnia, Ontario, on Wednesday when it became stuck ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards on Saturday continued efforts to break up ice and free a freighter that has been trapped in a frozen Lake Erie for days, officials said.