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Merchant marine slips aboard tugboat, ruptures disc PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 11 July 2008 07:55
Published: July 10, 2008

Plaintiff alleges deck was not skid-proof The plaintiff, a career merchant marine, was flaking line on the deck of a tugboat when the line got hung up and he felt a pop. The plaintiff, whose average yearly wage at the time was less than $47,000, had surgery to repair a ruptured disk and was out of work for approximately one year.
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Study says tugboats are sootiest for amount of fuel used PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 11 July 2008 07:35
By Gregory Richards
The Virginian-Pilot
© July 10, 2008


They may be relatively small, but tugboats puff out more soot for the amount of fuel used than other commercial vessels, according to a new study.

Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Colorado found that tugboats emit almost a gram of soot per kilogram of fuel burned. Oceangoing tankers and freighters release half a gram of soot per kilogram of fuel burned while at dock and slightly less while moving, according to the study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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