By CTV News Ottawa, April 4, 2014
It looks like something out of science fiction, a mechanical monster feasting on
winter’s icy remains. It is the Eco Technologies icebreaker, a floating
excavator that looks like a flat-bottomed barge with a large boom shovel looming
off one end. Two stabilizing arms with round pontoons stick out on either side
of the excavator, giving the machine a giant crab or spider-like appearance. via
Breaking the ice on the Rideau River | CTV Ottawa News.