This is what I went to the canal for ! Indiana Harbor into the wind and waves! 

So few people who don't get to see the Great Lakes, understand the giant ships that sail these waters. I have heard from so many who visit for the first time and get to see a storm on any of the Greats that they thought the Lakes were just big calm lakes you could look across and play in any time. Those of us blessed to live close know they truly are "inland seas" that have the fury of their salt cousins. I pity those who don't live close enough to visit them and see the ships and the beauty to understand why these Lakes are absolutely the beating heart of this nation.

Thanks. I was coal passer on one of these ships in1949 - 50 before I joined the regular Marines. The boat I was on was built in 1914 and had a three cylinder, three phase engine similar to the center engine of the Titanic. Loved it.

I could sit there all day watching ships come and go in Duluth! Never see any thing like that in Manitoba! Nice vid!

That ship completely changed the current, displaced soo much water. Stunning.

Phenomenal all I got to say is just phenomenal got to love these mammoths of the great lakes.

I love the North Shore..been here many times. My dad was a Great Lakes sailor when I was a kid...love the big boats. Superior is awesome in all weather.

Stunning. I can't even imagine how that thing floats, let alone propels itself. Really a feat of engineering.

I used to watch the ships passing by when I was living there. Nice video.

I used to live in Duluth and could watch the ships from the house. I loved it up there. Oddly enough I moved to Indiana from there and I'm back in Indiana now.

BEAUTIFUL!!! Love to watch those big gals ride the wild surf!💜

I loaded this ship many times at Taconite Harbor with 56,000 tons of taconite pellets. 1990-1992 era.

Love those 1000 footers.

Been on that freighter before when I had to repair the ship's umbilical communication cable when it was unable to "talk" to the Bailey computer that speeds up or slows down the conveyor belt depending on the offload rate. The crew appreciates when you offer them free leather gloves with a really great lunch in return. Two things that I find interesting is how the first crewmember to leave the boat to begin tying off the freighter has to be lowered off of the side holding onto a cable while seated on a wooden plank while the bow and stern thrusters push it against the loading dock bumpers. The several layer thick ice covering the ships in the late fall or early spring are neat to look at with angled massive icicles.

I love your videos- Thank you for sharing them!

Cold shoulder to the wheel Mr. Paul. Bless

I love these ships. 🤩🤩🤩

Gordon Lightfoot would love to sing about that ship!

I worked on the construction of the first 1000 footer the stewart j. cort in Erie pa.

The thousands of crew members who set off in weather like this. No doubt many prayers were said and thoughts of family and.fear raced thru their minds. Most make it but some fall prey to the waves. It truly is the call of the sea. Glad you weren't swept away.

Thanks Paul, kick ass day, I'd have second thoughts about leaving that harbor fully loaded.

The cold look of the fresh water makes me miss Minnesota....

Excellent videography, including slo-mo with the head-on waves. Cheers from upstate NY. Bob

THANK YOU VERY GOOD BEAUTIFUL GOOD job blessing ...

Like the opening of star wars: the long ship crawl lol Nice video

Without any tenders or tugs👍👍👍. Bad ass Captain

I live in NH and whenever a ship comes into Portsmouth the Moran tugs assist it upriver to either Portsmouth or Newington but we don't get anything bigger than 600 feet. Usually salt ships and oil and propane ships but its always impressive to see them come in cuz they are so damn big! Apparently we have like the 3rd strongest current in America? Plus we have the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard which services Navy attack subs so we get to see those bad boys come in and out occasionally. The USS Miami fire happened here.

Holy shit...Shiver me timbers, mate!

Excellent video. Thank you

Duluth/ Superior Harbor. I've seen ships come n go all day. Pack a lunch n enjoy. Remember to bring a warm jacket, it can get chilly there

My dad use to work on the Indiana harbor , I lived in Duluth my entire life I see ships often coming in and out of port . Good video though

tossing my cookies just looking at all that wave action. i'm a land lubber for sure. nice vid.

Love that ships horns "conversation"! I remember similar sounds on the Monongahela in Pittsburgh 50 years ago.

Great footage, thanks for sharing

Mn native and one of my fav things when I can is spend a day in Duluth harbor. Sadly haven't seen a lot of ships in and out cuz 3hrs away lol

I have a house on Lake Michigan near the port of Indiana. We see these big freighters all the time.

Bring it on and do your best Superior Your Not Going to stop me from 😅reaching my destination ❤

This is really awesome! I loved living near Superior. Miss it!

Thanks for sharing this!!

Waves like that still in the canal. Amazing!

Whoa ........ just watched this on full-screen !!! Kinda scary ! Great work, Paul.

Duluth Harbor Basin, south pier. Some people don't understand why this is a fun video. I lived on an old wooden boat, and I am a fan of lift bridges in particular. Standing on the foredeck after casting off the lines, heading into the wind, the waves smacking the hull, a little snow and rain in the face, and thinking... is this a good idea? An hour later you check the forward bilge and discover that some planks have spit their caulking and you have little fountains in the bilge, go to the engine room and start the pump, now that's the life!

Great wave action. Thanks for sharing. Nice photography and editing.

Great footage! I love it when I get news from people as opposed from corrupt corporations :)

If it's as rough as that in the canal, It's going to be even rougher on the open sea- Happy(?) memories! Great video-hope you didn't get splashed by the waves.

very nice footage!

Engineering at its finest! Cool video!

Well Done !!!

Those waves are impressive! Great video!

Finly a video with the bridge being lowered also. Well done sir

I lived in Sarnie Ont. for a year back in 1994, had an apartment right on the St Clair River and would love to spend my time watching the Lakers pass up and down. I was employed on the construction of the CN railway tunnel this would then do away with the oversize rail traffic ferries. Strangely one of my friends worked the ferries and the tunnel would do him out of a job. Another friend I met there had a sail boat and we would spend time out on Lake Huron in the summer, he played ice hokey in the winter and the bag pipes. Man it was the strangest posting I've ever had and one of the most enjoyable.

I thought that looks like no harbor in Indiana I've ever seen... then realize it's the name of the ship.

Great vid showing a glimpse of Great Lake living.

We went about two weeks ago and waited around for the ships that were supposed to come in....nothing. But this is a very good substitute...thanks!

Great Video. Thank you for your efforts. It looks dark and cold in Minny. Heck, My pool water is up to 84 degrees here in Florida

I was a boatswainsmate in the USN back in the 70's and '80's. Loved sea and anchor detail when it was stormy. One of us always had to man the anchor windlass controls and be ready to release the anchor pelican hook; I'd always volunteer. Ran ships boats, did underway replenishments, and helo flight quarters in some lousy weather too. To me, it was a challenge and exciting. Salt spray is what makes ya salty. 😉

Wow! That is fantastic!

Oh my God am afraid now because of wind 🌬. Watching from Biafra land

I've NEVER seen so many ore boat videos in a row! I need to get a pizza delivered in order to have enough energy to view all of these......

In each video of yours I sit here and trip out how vertical the bow of these ships are. I get it these are great lakes ships and I'm used to seeing huge ocean container ships and bulk carriers just trips me out everything

1 long and 2 short whistles used to be the signal to lift the bridge at Duluth ... no longer needed with the advent of marine radio, but now used as a courtesy to the bridge operator, who will acknowledge using the same signal. Used once more when clear of the bridge to signal "vessel clear, OK to lower."

the Captain just phoned it in on that second salute.

Fine video - thanks

What did you expect? Superior can be a real wakeup call no matter the season! I took my soon to be wife to Duluth in August years ago, and she wanted to dip her feet in the lake. Go for it, I told her! Oh, I spent many summers on the lake... over in Ashland, WI. OK, Jeanne is up to her knees and commenting on the water temps... as a Laker departed five minutes prior. I didn't say anything about that wave approaching.. hey, she wanted to experience Lake Superior!! Oh, what she said once that wave hit her!! I've on the beach laughing.. I told her, Superior is an experience!

I love watching these mammoth beasts!!

Lake Superior, Ocean withot sharks.

If wave action was ever to be classified, then this state would qualify for 'very vigorous'.

great guest quarters on her, but it will be a long night eastbound to the Soo.

That ship could've sunk the entire Spanish Armada in one pass.

Impressive!!

So much power in the vid

One of your best my friend!

What I wanted Breaker Beach to be at my local Water World.

Love it!!!!!!!

Great video.

I'm an Aussie used to sailing in the Pacific. The Great Lakes are a tad too hairy for me!

can't imagine what the Edmund Fitzgerald delt with that fateful day. Also the Arthur Anderson.

Water looks especially warm today!

She doesn't even budge in those seas with huge waves. She's loaded and nothing is going to make her move.

The ships wake is insane

wow incredible Hydro Dynamics at play that ship displaces a lot of water

Amazing how something that big and massive can float

East wind, loaded freighter, recipe for crazy wave action in the canal.

I decided to watch it again. Jerome.

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms, she left fully loaded for Cleveland......

Absolutely Erie, pun intended!!!

♫ So far away we wait for the day - For the lives all so wasted and gone - We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days ♬Through the wind and the waves we carry on.....

You couldn't pay me enough to work on one of those ships.

I saw so many bigger ships like that on Lake Ontario many times when they sailed past Rochester, NY, my hometown whenever I went to a beach there all times. Too bad, they neither stop at Port of Rochester nor sailed through a “canal” which itself is Genesee River even the city has a port there. Yes, the beach has two long piers.

*Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald intensifies*

Oh hey, I live there

Nice!

Hey, get out your boogie board- we've got some choice waves!Awooo!

Interesting saxophone sound.

...Deep in the Pacific Ocean the waves get rough...

Very cool!

Looks like the gales of November came early.

Does not look like the best day for watching ships!

Thought the harbor is closed in December to March. But its pretty cool sites to see

I love how she is not even moving up or down thats how heavy and big they are

Thanks. 😎🚢🚢🚢