Drone footage captures East Coast ice rescue of snow crab fishing boats
Stunning drone footage out of Chéticamp, N.S., shows a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker helping to clear a path for snow crab fishing boats surrounded by ice.
Chéticamp, N.S., resident and drone operator Michel Soucy was in the right place at the right time.
His stunning drone footage out of Chéticamp shows a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker helping to clear a path for snow crab fishing boats surrounded by ice.
Thanks to a shift in winds, the ice has since emptied out of the harbour, but it certainly made for an interesting start to the lucrative snow crab season off Cape Breton.
"Even though there wasn't a whole lot of ice outside the Gulf [of St. Lawrence] area, the winds seemed to insist on keeping what was left on our side of the coast, particularly in the Chéticamp harbour area, so it's been presenting more of a challenge than [what] was expected,” Soucy told The Weather Network.
The Gulf of St Lawrence is home to Canada’s second-largest snow crab fishery.
Thumbnail courtesy of Michel Soucy.
Watch the video above to see the incredible drone footage of the ice rescue.