Aaron Campbell and his brother were boating from Yellowknife to Hay River, N.W.T., earlier this fall when they got stuck on a sandbar in the shallow waters of Great Slave Lake near the mouth of the Hay River.
The two men spent the night on their boat and Campbell said when rescuers tried to drag them off the sandbar, their ropes kept breaking. They were freed the next day by a tug.He isn't the only one who has got stuck in the Hay River port in recent months.
Hay River has the one of the largest inland ports in Canada. Groenewegen said marine transport and related industries are its "backbone." "Our harbour is terrible," she said. "I think it's just Canada's systemic, habitual pattern really on how they view industries and people." "If we have a cork at the entranceway or exit from our river into the harbour … the water needs somewhere to go," Jameson said, adding when the water is shallow, it freezes to the ground.
A municipal report says between 1961 and 1996, an average of 21,842 cubic metres of sediment were dredged from Hay River's east channel and docks every year. Since then, it's been done occasionally.
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