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A huge freighter hauling salt through the Great Lakes ran aground in the Detroit River on Wednesday, causing a spectacle off the shore of a popular island park.
WASHINGTON STATE FERRY RUNS AGROUND WITH NEARLY 600 ABOARD AFTER SUSPECTED GENERATOR FAILURE
Freighters regularly travel the waterway but they rarely come so close to land, so the sudden arrival of the Mark W. Barker, which is nearly 650 feet long, turned heads at Belle Isle, a state park in the river.
A 650-foot freight ship ran aground off the shore of Detroit's Belle Isle.
"I came down here and I looked and I was like, ‘whoa,'" Diane Reid told The Detroit News.
350-POUND BEAR REMOVED FROM NORTHERN MICHIGAN TREE AS DOZENS SPECTATE
The freighter lost propulsion because of an electronics malfunction and got stuck in mud and sand about 8 a.m., the U.S. Coast Guard said.
It was freed by a tugboat around noon "fairly easily" but will be anchored in the river for an inspection, said Lt. j.g. Adeeb Ahmad.
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"There were no concerns for vessel traffic. No one was injured," Ahmad said. "For such an unfortunate event, it was the best-case scenario. It happened right next to our Coast Guard station on Belle Isle."
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