I used to go up the Great Lakes on ocean going ships when I was young. I remember a ferocious storm on Lake Superior once, I have never forgotten it. Thanks for this. Cheers from Australia.
Looks like great weather for getting nice and cold and wet, so you can really appreciate the hot cocoa when you get back home! Very awe-inspiring wave video - thank you for sharing!
Love the ships, the ever changing sky, the mystique of the north shore, but this is my favorite for the year. Lake Superior reminding humans that it is nature totally in charge, can destroy in a minute what takes years to build. Great vid!!!
Like KC, I watched it on the webcam. It was absolutely mesmerising. I'd never imagined waves so high right where everybody walks. Great video and thank you.
I watched this on the stream yesterday and the weather was so intense, thank you for the additional up close views of the waves and flooding! I felt bad for the crews of the ships that were caught out to sea in that mess and had to hunker down by the shore all day, that could not have been fun bobbing on those choppy waves... 😫
I had two classmates in grade school who were swept by such waves into Lake Michigan, they both drowned. People need to be careful, the unthinkable can happen in seconds.
Wow! Great video, have never seen such waves flooding Canal Park! And in April! That orange life preserver & chunks of ice roaring past the place on the pier where tourists usually stand is dramatic.
Mother Superior is a beast!!!❤❤❤ I grew up with this town and Lake. My uncle had a Marina and store near the lift bridge. He got a large houseboat and the family started their way to Silver Bay, North of Duluth. Storms come up real quick on this lake and one blew in fast,, swamping the houseboat and all 7 went in the water. His kids were marine disaster trained and all survived, which is amazing, since the water is usually around 40 or so degrees. Even on a rare hot sunny day you can barely put your foot in it..
When we were kids, my dad would take us up to lk Erie and watch a front come in. The lake would be calm as glass and within minutes it would look just like this. I'm always amazed at this little gem. 😆
3 tours in the great lakes. St Clair Shores, Mobile Bay and D9 commcen. Also did time on a couple of 210's, both encountered Hurricanes. I'll take a Hurricane any day over a "storm" on the great lakes. I remember hitting 25footers coming out of the Sturgeon Bay ship canal, on our way to break the Acacia out of a ice flow. Storm from the south. We got a call from A/S Traverse city asking if we were ok. They found one of our life rafts almost in the straits of Mackinaw, inflated. Guess it got washed overboard and we didn't know. 25ft seas might not sound like much to those who worked Alaska waters, but CONFUSED seas is way worse IMO. I'll stick to that story since I had a couple of tours on 210's and road out Hurricanes, on both.
Even though it's the Great Lakes it does look like an ocean I remember years ago I was in Minnesota NOT by the Great Lake area I was in a paddle boat I went so far out we were in a Severe Weather at the time and I couldn't get back to shore but I made it back
@Kraken wood floor service Mcmahon I thought you got cyclones in the Australian area, not hurricanes. I know, what's in a name. Point being, these weather events can be different for different areas and create various conditions. Great Lakes gets it Gails and Storms that can manifest conditions that rival a hurricane. But what you get as a bonus in the lakes is confused seas. Something you dont get out in the middle of a typical hurricane. And the seas build faster there due to their depth and shape. Anything that can sink a 700ft ship is bad, regardless where it happens. 73's
@@tc1uscg65 Riding a 210, I don't blame you at all. The periodicity of the wave on the Great Lakes (especially Erie, which is comparatively shallow) makes it even worse. This would be a tough ride in even a 378'. How about going out in a 44 MLB or even one of the "new" 47's in this?
What an amazing video, Dave. Thanks for going down there and for posting it! If you look on the island side of the bridge at 2:40, it looks like a wave *does* hit the bridge - it might just be spraying upward from a ladder recess though.
I rewatch this vid often. It is a testament to the power of wind and water. Its unbelievable that the piers can survive this kind of pounding with ice to boot. Though this stormy sea is a frightening reality of of the lake, it occurs several times over a year, year after year. I still think this vid is top of the list for best canal intensity of gales.
The lake sure was in a rage in your side . Wasn’t anything like that further up in Thunder Bay . I always miss the good ones down there when I visiting 😩🤦♂️. Awesome footage. Too bad a ship wasn’t making a visit , imagine how that woulda looked 👀😄
My mom was born in Superior in 1915. 2 of her elementary school friends walked out to the end of that pier and were washed away by huge waves. They were never found. Eventually the green gates were installed. Maybe to protect others. I don't know when they were installed..
Now this takes me back 70+ years to when I was a small kid on the south side of Chicago and lived one and a half blocks from the lake .I saw weather like this all the time .
Woah!!! I've seen stormy water before but not rolling over the wall that way. The height of water made me think of storm surge like we have in the North Sea. While it looks spectacular it's also very dangerous. Take care, stay safe. 👍👍👍👍👍. Does the bridge ever have to lift to clear high water? 🇬🇧
When you have the wind coming right into the arm it is epic . I have never seen waves that big in Duluth canal . no way for boating in that stuff unless you're coastguard . You'd be dead minutes after hitting the water . Hypothermia , you freeze up like the people on the Titanic . Seawater was 28 degrees Far. Great video , thanks for posting .
Some of the people on the bank of the river were amazingly unaware when a wave almost leaves them with a foot high wave over their feet especially that guy at the end. 🙄
funny how some people will tempt fate....it's called an accident. all it takes is 1 time. then someone at home is getting that phone call. the camera neighbor had the right vantage point. great footage we donot normally get to see this down here in the far west suburbs of Chicago. thank you
Wow. Thanks so much for sharing these events, because they don't show everything on the news definitely! Luke 21:25 "...and there will be anguish on the earth among nations bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the waves."
Nice----please consider using a windproof mic and improving your panning and camera movements (slooow is good) -and maybe nice info voiceover. maybe I'll check in again sometime. Cheers
I actually had no intention of putting this on UA-cam. I shot these videos to show my family what they had missed when they opted to not come with me. I ran home and returned to canal park about an hour later with a much better camera to reshoot some better footage, but by that time the waves had calmed down and weren't nearly as impressive, not worth posting.
Great video!
Whew! From Canada, with Maple Syrup and Love. 😊
I used to go up the Great Lakes on ocean going ships when I was young. I remember a ferocious storm on Lake Superior once, I have never forgotten it. Thanks for this. Cheers from Australia.
Wow! Great video.
Thank you for braving those waters and chunks of ice I never saw the water move in the walk way crazy stuff !
Definitely on the wild side. Great video 😊
Thank you. Stunningly beautiful mother nature at work and horrifying at the same time. Hoping everyone stayed safe
The lake is trying to take that Tug back.
Looks like great weather for getting nice and cold and wet, so you can really appreciate the hot cocoa when you get back home! Very awe-inspiring wave video - thank you for sharing!
Love the ships, the ever changing sky, the mystique of the north shore, but this is my favorite for the year. Lake Superior reminding humans that it is nature totally in charge, can destroy in a minute what takes years to build. Great vid!!!
Like KC, I watched it on the webcam. It was absolutely mesmerising. I'd never imagined waves so high right where everybody walks. Great video and thank you.
People taking chances by getting too close. Great capture.
I thought for a minute a wave would hit the bridge. Impressive storm and video.
I thought that myself!
Looked like one did on the far south side, barely grazed the bridge.
Great show. Thanks from New York
Thanks Freddy!
Those are some ginormous breakers! Did I see a life ring float by?😨
Well, for the Midwest perhaps. We’re yawning out east
I watched this on the stream yesterday and the weather was so intense, thank you for the additional up close views of the waves and flooding! I felt bad for the crews of the ships that were caught out to sea in that mess and had to hunker down by the shore all day, that could not have been fun bobbing on those choppy waves... 😫
You are a different breed going out in the weather that day!
Moin Dave, i saw the storm live at the Canal cams. But of course not so near. Wow. Thank you and greetings from Germany : - )
Greetings!!! :)
Epic footage !!! I watched it on the webcam yesterday but this really nails it !!!! 🌊
Thank you. 30 years of going down to canal and never seen anything like it.
It shows real dedication to be out filming in that weather, thanks!
Wow! This place is on my to-do list for October 2024!!!
Stay off the end of that pier..
Thank you, great views, how something is so beautiful and so horrifying at the same time
I love cold, blustery, cloudy weather. From a great distance.
Danke! Schon beeindruckend, ich musste nun unbedingt mal nachschauen, wo sich die Stadt Duluth befindet👍.
Unbelievable how close they are standing to water waves.
Very powerful. One slip and you could be carried away.
Yes, beautiful nature.
Which will then cause stress and trouble for others because someone will have to rescue them.
I sure hope canel park ok we love going there in summer
Anything for a selfie. Clueless in the canal.
Exhibiting the oxygen thief spectrum of DNA.
I had two classmates in grade school who were swept by such waves into Lake Michigan, they both drowned. People need to be careful, the unthinkable can happen in seconds.
Awesome video thanks for sharing it 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Great video! LOL at the guy near the end who doesn't see the small wave catch him from behind!
if it's this rough at the park, I Can imagine how rough it is in the middle. I've been in the middle of Superior when it was very rough.
The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli... 🤣
Haha Love it!
Lmao! Thanks for that flash to the 90s. The blowhard George and the blowhole😂!!! Ya gotta love the friendly Soup Nazi. 🤣🤣. No Soup!!!!!
But what George really wanted, was to be an architect.
Seinfeld. And the look on Jerry's face when George says it.. priceless
That’s not the sea. That’s a lake.
Thanks for sharing, we were watching the canal cam and was wondering how deep was in the canal walkway. Thanks for the up close perspective!
Thanks for sharing.
Wow! Great video, have never seen such waves flooding Canal Park! And in April! That orange life preserver & chunks of ice roaring past the place on the pier where tourists usually stand is dramatic.
Awesome! Thanks!❤
Wow! You recorded some great stuff!
I'd prefer being on land looking out, rather than out on the water throwing up!
Wow! I watch from NJ on the cams, I've never seen the pier walkway flooded or have a current!
Mother Superior is a beast!!!❤❤❤ I grew up with this town and Lake. My uncle had a Marina and store near the lift bridge. He got a large houseboat and the family started their way to Silver Bay, North of Duluth. Storms come up real quick on this lake and one blew in fast,, swamping the houseboat and all 7 went in the water. His kids were marine disaster trained and all survived, which is amazing, since the water is usually around 40 or so degrees. Even on a rare hot sunny day you can barely put your foot in it..
Wow what a great video! Thank you for fighting the elements to video this!!
Thanks High Plains! It was awesome.
That is intense....thanks for sharing
When we were kids, my dad would take us up to lk Erie and watch a front come in. The lake would be calm as glass and within minutes it would look just like this. I'm always amazed at this little gem. 😆
Your saying the lake would routinely inundate the shoreline LIKE THIS! I don’t believe that for a second.
the great lakes are as scary as they are beautiful
if I was watching this in VR I'd be terrified
Those are some freaking big waves. 😮
Those are impressive seas!! I grew up on Lake Erie, just west of Cleveland. Those waves rival some formed by hurricanes on the East Coast!
3 tours in the great lakes. St Clair Shores, Mobile Bay and D9 commcen. Also did time on a couple of 210's, both encountered Hurricanes. I'll take a Hurricane any day over a "storm" on the great lakes. I remember hitting 25footers coming out of the Sturgeon Bay ship canal, on our way to break the Acacia out of a ice flow. Storm from the south. We got a call from A/S Traverse city asking if we were ok. They found one of our life rafts almost in the straits of Mackinaw, inflated. Guess it got washed overboard and we didn't know. 25ft seas might not sound like much to those who worked Alaska waters, but CONFUSED seas is way worse IMO. I'll stick to that story since I had a couple of tours on 210's and road out Hurricanes, on both.
those waves are 3 ft and not even close to an ocean hurricane swell. 2 ft by Australian standards and 1 ft Hawaiian scale.
Even though it's the Great Lakes it does look like an ocean I remember years ago I was in Minnesota NOT by the Great Lake area I was in a paddle boat I went so far out we were in a Severe Weather at the time and I couldn't get back to shore but I made it back
@Kraken wood floor service Mcmahon I thought you got cyclones in the Australian area, not hurricanes. I know, what's in a name. Point being, these weather events can be different for different areas and create various conditions. Great Lakes gets it Gails and Storms that can manifest conditions that rival a hurricane. But what you get as a bonus in the lakes is confused seas. Something you dont get out in the middle of a typical hurricane. And the seas build faster there due to their depth and shape. Anything that can sink a 700ft ship is bad, regardless where it happens. 73's
@@tc1uscg65 Riding a 210, I don't blame you at all. The periodicity of the wave on the Great Lakes (especially Erie, which is comparatively shallow) makes it even worse. This would be a tough ride in even a 378'. How about going out in a 44 MLB or even one of the "new" 47's in this?
Omigosh check out the ice coming in besides. I haven't seen it this bad!
Thanks for the video that was amazing‼️🖐
Glad you enjoyed it!
What an amazing video, Dave. Thanks for going down there and for posting it! If you look on the island side of the bridge at 2:40, it looks like a wave *does* hit the bridge - it might just be spraying upward from a ladder recess though.
The sea was angry that day, my friends! 😁
Kinell! Thanks for the video.
great video, i was watching when the wave broke open the gate, crazy waves that day, cool seeing from a lower angle than the cams.
I can not imagine how difficult if not impossible navigating a 1000 footer in that weather!
Thank You, this made my night!
Thank you
Wow that tugboat really got thrown high and dry!
I rewatch this vid often. It is a testament to the power of wind and water. Its unbelievable that the piers can survive this kind of pounding with ice to boot. Though this stormy sea is a frightening reality of of the lake, it occurs several times over a year, year after year. I still think this vid is top of the list for best canal intensity of gales.
Thanks for sharing that!!
Good way to clean up all the bird crap on the pier and side walks :)
Forget the storms of November!!!!We have the winds of April!!!
Life ring at 58 seconds... epic . Hurddett here news gives video two thumbs up 👍 👍
I remember some brutally cold winds in Duluth and still going to school and walking through it
Wow, I've never seen flooding here.
WOW that is amazing, we watch vids from the canal and know how high those really are... nature is so impressive.
Oh my Heck. That looks like the coldest most miserable water ever.
Wow those waves are crazy !
Thanks for sharing, that is crazy
The lake sure was in a rage in your side . Wasn’t anything like that further up in Thunder Bay . I always miss the good ones down there when I visiting 😩🤦♂️. Awesome footage. Too bad a ship wasn’t making a visit , imagine how that woulda looked 👀😄
A view from the recliner. These ships carry their own hotels on the stern. How many rooms are there? How many guest rooms?
wow - stormy seas for sure!
My mom was born in Superior in 1915. 2 of her elementary school friends walked out to the end of that pier and were washed away by huge waves. They were never found. Eventually the green gates were installed. Maybe to protect others. I don't know when they were installed..
Wow, that'd be scary!!!
People are nuts to be standing there
Yeah, nah, we just hit 101 out here in southern Arizona. This looks very cold to me.
Grew up on the shores of lake Michigan, and this was a common site during the winter months.
Cool! And dont turn your back on the "ocean".
Now this takes me back 70+ years to when I was a small kid on the south side of Chicago and lived one and a half blocks from the lake .I saw weather like this all the time .
I miss being up there when the weather is like that
The power and awe of Mother Nature! Hope the life ring was caught😂
Could you imagine a boat trying to get through there in those conditions?
Woah!!! I've seen stormy water before but not rolling over the wall that way. The height of water made me think of storm surge like we have in the North Sea. While it looks spectacular it's also very dangerous. Take care, stay safe. 👍👍👍👍👍. Does the bridge ever have to lift to clear high water? 🇬🇧
As far as I know the bridge has never lifted for waves.
30 years I've been going down there looking at waves and I've never seen anything like this before.
Forgot on my reply ❤ thanks Dave Becareful
When you have the wind coming right into the arm it is epic . I have never seen waves that big in Duluth canal . no way for boating in that stuff unless you're coastguard . You'd be dead minutes after hitting the water . Hypothermia , you freeze up like the people on the Titanic . Seawater was 28 degrees Far. Great video , thanks for posting .
This is beautiful, but it scares me. I have thalassaphobia. 👍👍
Nice catch... I posted mine from the bridge itself same day... Canal Park 4/20/23
This is wild!
Some of the people on the bank of the river were amazingly unaware when a wave almost leaves them with a foot high wave over their feet especially that guy at the end. 🙄
funny how some people will tempt fate....it's called an accident. all it takes is 1 time. then someone at home is getting that phone call. the camera neighbor had the right vantage point. great footage we donot normally get to see this down here in the far west suburbs of Chicago. thank you
Holy !!! Wave hit the bottom of the bridge at 2:40
Not only were the waves big, they were moving fast too.
Don't mess with Mother Nature...
Interesting how rusty the water looks when it's stirred up like that.
Awesome!
At 2:41 a wave does it the bridge on the left side!
Wow. Thanks so much for sharing these events, because they don't show everything on the news definitely! Luke 21:25 "...and there will be anguish on the earth among nations bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the waves."
Thank you!
Phillipians 4:6-8
Isaiah 26:3. ;)
Wonder how the homes on the lakes side of Park Point are doing ?
This looks like the Pacific ocean off the California central coast.
I remember when the Great Lakes froze every winter !!
Long time ago .
2:42 a wave hits bottom of the bridge.
Beatiful place but kinda scary too
That is Edmund Fitzgerald weather - and it's only late April!
wow that is incredible power
Power to the weather
Wow, never saw the water get to the walkway
Same here!
Yeah, and it got pretty deep there!
The lake was angry that day, my friend. Like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.
Nice----please consider using a windproof mic and improving your panning and camera movements (slooow is good) -and maybe nice info voiceover. maybe I'll check in again sometime. Cheers
I actually had no intention of putting this on UA-cam. I shot these videos to show my family what they had missed when they opted to not come with me. I ran home and returned to canal park about an hour later with a much better camera to reshoot some better footage, but by that time the waves had calmed down and weren't nearly as impressive, not worth posting.
To think these waves are mild compared to what the Edmond Fitzgerald experienced that November night 1975.
An event I commemorate each November. I live a short bike ride from where she departed on her final voyage.
Amazing !!!!!!!!