A Dangerous Current in the Duluth Canal! Algoma Intrepid arriving with a News Making Seiche!

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About this visit!

Algoma Intrepid arriving with a Strong Inbound Current! Over 1.5 Kts! Arriving with a cargo of Salt for the Envirotech H-8 dock in Supeior June 21, 2025 at 08:55 in the morning. Taking full advantage of the waterflow, arriving at a pretty good clip as well!
They pulled into the Envirotech dock at 09:54, stayed there for only 6.1 hours discharging salt. That processed salt comes out nice and easy! They sailed out of Duluth at 16:44 after being in Port for only 7.8 hours. Heading out light, next stop Two Harbor to load Iron Ore Pellets for the Essar Steel Plant in Saulte Ste Marie.
This was the First Duluth visit of the season for this ship!
Fun info: to the date of this video, there has been a total of 40 Candian ships that loaded ore at either CN dock and delivered to Sault Ste Marie.
Info on the Seiche From the Weather Service:
DULUTH — The water in Lake Superior sloshed back and forth like a bathtub between Minnesota and Michigan when a storm system caused a tidal-like phenomenon known as a seiche across the region last weekend.
Meteorologists at the National Weather Service (NWS) say the largest Great Lake experienced a significant seiche, possibly the largest on Lake Superior in years, starting overnight Friday, June 20, and lasting until Sunday, June 22.
Gauges show a nearly 4-foot water level change in Ashland and weather service meteorologists say they’ve heard anecdotal reports of larger swings elsewhere.
In Duluth, gauges measured a 1.5-foot change, and the swing caused hurdles for boaters attempting to enter the harbor via the shipping canal.
“It kind of depended on where you were in Lake Superior for how big the difference was,” said Ketzel Levens, an NWS meteorologist in Duluth.
“Seiches on Lake Superior aren’t rare,” she said. But “ones of this magnitude are.”
A seiche (pronounced "saysh") happens when standing water is pushed from one end of a lake to another, resulting in a type of long-distance oscillating wave. Seiches are similar to but different from a meteotsunami, which features a traveling wave