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 | Historic tugboats struggle to stay afloat |
 By: GLENN GRIFFITH, The Saratogian
09/02/2008
The two boats tied up in the Mohawk River at the end of Terminal Road make an odd sight. An aging tugboat rides low in the water alongside what appears to be a floating railroad boxcar. Rather than a rail car, the rectangular red vessel is actually Pennsylvania Railroad Barge No. 399, a 1930s-era covered barge once used for hauling dry goods.
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Posted by admin on Wednesday, September 03 @ 10:50:03 PDT (0 reads)
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| Angry Camper Shoots at Tug Boat |
Reported by: Web Producer
Tuesday, Sep 2, 2008 @05:15pm CST
A Henderson man faces numerous charges after investigators say he fired several shots at a tug boat on the Green River. The incident occurred early Tuesday morning.
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Posted by admin on Wednesday, September 03 @ 06:38:52 PDT (1 reads)
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| help me |
 jbocanut writes "greetings!!! i am a licensed captain in boca grande florida. i am DESPERATELY trying to locate william (bill) white. i believe he lives in venice florida. his age is approximately 55 years. he has an unlimited license, i believe, and used to run barges for fpl into port tampa years ago. i need to contact him for a personal reason regarding a relative. if there is anyone out there who can help me please contact me @ cjf4inboca@yahoo.com, or, call my cell phone @ 941 286 7685. any assistance renderd will be greatly appreciated. fair winds and following seas! john foster"
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, September 02 @ 12:14:04 PDT (0 reads)
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| Tugboat captain arrested after collision |
 By Robert Zullo
Staff Writer
Published: Friday, August 22, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, August 22, 2008 at 3:46 p.m.
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Emily Schwarze/Staff
James Laughlin’s 28-foot skiff was hit by a tugboat Thursday in lower Dulac, a collision that resulted in the tugboat captain’s arrest on multiple charges. |
DULAC — A 38-year-old Lockport tugboat captain was arrested Thursday after he allegedly passed out at the wheel, ran his boat onto a mud bank and struck a docked fishing vessel in Bayou Grand Caillou.
Ronnie Stevens, the captain of the Trey Paul, a push boat hauling two barges loaded with oilfield equipment, is charged with second-offense DWI, hit and run and reckless operation of a boat. Stevens is also charged with possession of Zaliphen, a sleeping medication and a schedule IV controlled dangerous substance, authorities said.
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Posted by admin on Monday, August 25 @ 12:16:47 PDT (47 reads)
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| Barge Hits Casco Bay Bridge |
PORTLAND HARBOR (NEWS CENTER) -- The barge, towed by a tugboat, hit the bridge's fender system.
It happened shortly before seven o'clock Wednesday morning. The Coast Guard says no one was hurt and there appears to be just minimal damage to both the bridge and the barge.
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Posted by admin on Friday, August 22 @ 10:45:58 PDT (68 reads)
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| Tugboat Caused Mississippi River Oil Spill, Tanker Captain Claims |
Date Published: Thursday, August 14th, 2008
The captain of a tanker involved in last month’s Mississippi River oil spill said that the tugboat Mel Oliver was to blame for the collision that caused the disaster. During a hearing in New Orleans yesterday, Captain Jan Stefan Bjarve said that just before the collision, the Mel Oliver, towing a barge loaded down with 419,000 gallons of oil, unexpectedly turned into the path of his tanker, the Tintomara.
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Posted by admin on Friday, August 15 @ 08:13:01 PDT (73 reads)
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| TITAN Salvage Removes Accommodations Block from Sunken Ship, New Flame, in Gibr |
 (Pompano, Fla.; August 13, 2008) TITAN Salvage, Crowley Maritime Corporation's salvage and wreck removal company reported today that its salvage team on site in Gibraltar responding to the wreck of the bulk ship New Flame took a major step forward in the project last week when salvors removed the wreck's 600-ton accommodations block.
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Posted by admin on Friday, August 15 @ 08:07:34 PDT (53 reads)
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| Mississippi River Oil Spill Barge Finally Hauled Away |
 Date Published: Monday, August 11th, 2008
The barge responsible for last month’s Mississippi river oil spill has finally been removed from the water. With the barge finally gone, attention will likely shift to the Coast Guard’s investigation into the July 23 spill. A hearing into the incident is scheduled to begin tomorrow, and several crew members from a tugboat and tanker involved in the accident are slated to testify.
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Posted by admin on Monday, August 11 @ 12:04:28 PDT (45 reads)
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| Normal speed allowed on 20 miles of Miss. River |
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS, LA. -- Ships and boats can once again travel at normal speed on the 20 miles of the Mississippi River nearest the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said Wednesday.
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Posted by admin on Friday, August 08 @ 13:07:57 PDT (26 reads)
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| 'It's like moving an egg' |
Constellation will be carefully pushed to commissioning ceremony
By Scott Calvert | Sun reporter
August 8, 2008
Mark McCluskey's thousand-horsepower tugboat, which usually hauls oil barges all over Baltimore Harbor, is set to gently nudge and prod an especially precious vessel this afternoon: the 154-year-old sloop-of-war Constellation.
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Posted by admin on Friday, August 08 @ 13:05:18 PDT (71 reads)
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| Plane crash survivor guides rescuers with text messages |
JUSTINE HUNTER
From Monday's Globe and Mail
August 4, 2008 at 12:03 AM EDT
VICTORIA — For several desperate hours Sunday, the two survivors of a plane crash in a remote section of Vancouver Island watched as search aircraft flew overhead, the rescue crews unable to spot the wreckage hidden in the mountainous terrain.
The Grumman Goose crashed a little after 7 a.m. Sunday, leaving five dead — including four members of the same tugboat crew. The pilot of the Pacific Coastal Airlines flight had been taking six passengers from Port Hardy for what was to be a short flight to a remote logging camp on the other side of the island.
One survivor, with his cellphone battery low and reception weak, was able to call and text-message a friend, trying to guide his rescuers. His descriptions were frightening — the plane had been consumed by fire — but with the emergency beacon destroyed, search crews were hampered by the thick forest that seemed to swallow the aircraft.
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Posted by admin on Monday, August 04 @ 13:37:49 PDT (37 reads)
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| Tug repeatedly warned before Miss. River collision |
By ALAN SAYRE
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The pilot of a massive tanker involved in a collision on the Mississippi River repeatedly warns a tug boat pushing a barge to get out of the way, but no one on the smaller boat responds, according to radio transmissions released Saturday by the Coast Guard.
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Posted by admin on Monday, August 04 @ 13:32:01 PDT (73 reads)
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| Big oil-slurping barge joins clean-up fleet at New Orleans |
Associated Press - July 31, 2008 3:24 PM ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A barge designed to slurp up large amounts of oily water has joined the Mississippi River cleanup fleet. It is stationed near the twisted wreckage of the barge from which hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil spilled last week.
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Posted by admin on Monday, August 04 @ 13:25:55 PDT (29 reads)
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| Tugboat firm no stranger to spills |
Pilots underlicensed in several incidents
Saturday, August 02, 2008
By Jen DeGregorio
Last week was not the first time Harvey company DRD Towing played a role in an oil spill on the Mississippi River in New Orleans with an underlicensed pilot at the helm.
Four years ago, the firm staffed a tugboat called the Mr. Craig that lost control of a barge and punctured the Eagle Memphis, unleashing 2,100 gallons of crude oil from the ship's starboard fuel tank into the river near Algiers Point.
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Posted by admin on Monday, August 04 @ 13:21:14 PDT (40 reads)
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| Mississippi River Collision Press Release and Video |
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Capt_Anonymous writes "Press Release | | Date: Aug. 2, 2008
Contact: Eighth District External Affairs
(504) 671-2020
| | COAST GUARD RELEASES PRELIMINARY FINDINGS IN OIL SPILL INVESTIGATION
| | NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard has released preliminary findings from the independent formal investigation into the collision that occurred on the Mississippi River near downtown, Wednesday, July 23, 2008 between the vessels Tintomara and Mel Oliver, as well as recordings from the Vessel Traffic Service.
The independent investigation by the U.S. Coast Guard was initiated by Rear Adm. Joel R. Whitehead, commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District headquartered here.
Initial findings of fact are as follows:
- There were no mechanical or electrical issues with the Tintomara.
- There were no crew competency issues with the Tintomara.
- There were no competency issues with the pilot aboard the Tintomara.
- The Tintomara did call out via radio to the Mel Oliver prior to the collision.
- The captain of the Mel Oliver was not aboard the vessel at the time of the collision.
- Mel Oliver had an assigned crew of a Captain, Steersman apprentice, and two deck hands.
- The steersman apprentice was operating the Mel Oliver at the time of the collision. He was licensed but his license did not authorize him to operate the vessel without the captain’s presence in the wheelhouse.
- The Mel Oliver did not return the radio call outs from the Tintomara prior to the collision.
- Vessel traffic service did call out to the Mel Oliver prior to the collision.
- The Mel Oliver did not answer the vessel traffic service prior to the collision.
- The Mel Oliver was moving the barge DM 932.
- As the Mel Oliver was pushing against the bow of barge DM 392, the Tintomara made contact with the port side of barge DM 392.
- Drug and alcohol testing was done on the bridge and watch crew of the Tintomara and the Mel Oliver.
- An independent survey relating to the mechanical and electrical system was conducted on the Mel Oliver and it has been moved to dry dock to be inspected, reports on the survey and the inspection are pending.
- The formal hearing has been scheduled for Aug. 12, 2008.
- The pilot of the Tintomara, the Tintomara, the steersman of the Mel Oliver, the Captain of the Mel Oliver, DRD towing, American Commercial Lines, and the Mel Oliver have been named as parties of interest, official letters were sent out Aug. 1, 2008.
The released video from the VTS includes the radio communications between the parties. ***MEDIA NOTE: Some language in the video may not be appropriate for all viewers. Please allow time for the download to complete.***
The video can be found at:
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Posted by admin on Monday, August 04 @ 07:15:40 PDT (29 reads)
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| Russian sub sets world record in Lake Baikal dive |
LAKE BAIKAL, Russia (AFP) — A Russian mini-submarine reached the bottom of Lake Baikal on Tuesday, setting a record for the deepest dive in a lake, expedition organisers said.
"The Mir-2 has reached the bottom of Lake Baikal at a depth of 1,680 metres (5,512 feet)," ITAR-TASS reported from the barge where the submarine was diving from. The dive "has set a record for submersion in freshwater," Vesti-24 said.
The scientific expedition is being organised by Artur Chilingarov, a pro-Kremlin member of parliament and an Arctic explorer who led the submarine team that planted a Russian flag at the bottom of the North Pole last August.
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Posted by admin on Thursday, July 31 @ 11:24:37 PDT (24 reads)
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| TITAN EXCLUSIVE |
Shipwrecks and sunken treasure. Man's fascination with tales of the high seas conjures up a kaleidoscope of images - some of pirates holding Spanish conquistadors at bay and Greek explorers traveling the Silk Road in search of red fabrics as rich as Thai rubies.
 The history between man, Mother Nature and vessels is romantic and mysterious,a tale woven with colorful legends, superstitions and extraordinary circumstances.
Today, those stories continue to be woven in remote places where treasures may be shipped in steel containers, rather than in stronghold boxes and the main characters are professional divers, salvage masters and technical experts. Their goal is complicated and execution is almost an art form - so much so, that few people dare to confront Mother Nature's fury, the mechanical intricacies posed by both modern and dated vessels or situations created by human error.
The experts at TITAN Marintime, though, are more than ready for the challenge.
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, July 29 @ 10:21:23 PDT (60 reads)
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| Tug sinks in Schyulkill River near Platt Bridge |
Unregistered Coward writes "Sometime on the morning of 28 July, 2008, the small tug Carolyn Wales sunk on the Schyulkill River near the Platt Bridge. She released an unknown amount of fuel oil into the river. No one knows if anyone was aboard or if anyone died onboard.
(If anyone has any information on this tug, please post here on the site)"
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, July 29 @ 03:10:36 PDT (28 reads)
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