ship to sandusky breaking up this ice. >> as you can see, it is ice-covered. many who make their living on the bay have been iced in at their docks for up to two weeks. >> today we're going to work on it and try to get with this warming trend we'll be able to work and break some of the ice up and it should stay open and be able to get new boats in and out. >> so the sandusky along with three other vessels are breaking ice all throughout the chesapeake bay. >> the small inlets. all of those are iced up. all the little rivers and streams. they are all iced up now. >> when it starts to warm up that ice will melt. >> usually ice doesn't come to the bay until tepid of january or early february -- or end of january or early february. >> they are probably three or four inches thick individually but they are all packed up on themselves so there is wobalb probably about a foot or more of ice here that we're trying to make our way through. >> the hope is breaking up the ice and the warming temperatures will help those that need to get their boat us out to work, a break.