One of the machines cutting up ice on the Red River broke through Saturday morning and sank to the bottom.
This has never happened before.
Around 7:30 am, the remote control skid steer broke through the ice just upstream of the Selkirk lift bridge. The 14,000 pound machine is now sitting under 5 metres of water and ice.
Fortunately, it’s a remote controlled machine, so no one was hurt.
Darrell Kupchik, the operations manger for North Red Waterway Maintenance, tells Global News that today’s above normal temperatures were a factor in the incident.
A dive team is going to attempt to recover the $130,000-thousand machine Sunday. It’s believed the cutter can be repaired and made operational again.
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