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Environment
Capital Gazette Communications
Published
01/22/09
As the A.V. Sandusky cruises through a marina in Kent Narrows, there's an unmistakable creaking and crunching sound of ice meeting steel. The ship shudders a bit, sending shards of ice flying and breaking away chunks of ice that float away. 
J. Henson - The Capital
A.V. Sandusky mate Jason Spadero of Edgewater pushes away ice floes in the Kent Narrows. The Sandusky is one of three ice-breaking ships owned by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. The A.V. Sandusky is one of DNR's ice-breakers, clearing a path in area waterways for watermen, boaters and ships.
 The A.V. Sandusky works at breaking up ice in the Kent Narrows.
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The Sandusky - out on its first ice-breaking mission of the winter yesterday - is an 80-foot ship with a reinforced steel hull that obliterates ice that makes the waters of the Chesapeake Bay treacherous for watermen and other commercial boaters this time of year. The Sandusky uses brute force to break up the ice, ramming into the ice sheet until it gives way. "Basically, we...
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