Accidents

The Lower Mississippi River was closed briefly March 15 following an allision between the mv. Cooperative Spirit and the Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge near Luling, La. The incident occurred at… Read More

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a Marine Accident Brief February 26 detailing the agency’s investigation into the March 10, 2019, allision of the mv. Rivers Wilson and the… Read More

The lack of an effective maintenance program that might have detected a clutch system operating at only 40 percent of efficiency was responsible for the February 13, 2019, collision between… Read More

The U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed that the mv. City of Cleveland caught fire at about 4:15 p.m. February 26 near Mile 349 on the Lower Mississippi River, south of… Read More

“Having a Towing Safety Management System is no good unless you follow it.” Those words, or variants of them, have probably been spoken at every single meeting on Subchapter M… Read More

A breakaway of about 40 barges in the St. Louis region on February 12 closed the river as it took most of a day to round up, but resulted in… Read More

The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway reopened to navigation February 7, less than five days after a vessel ran aground near Berwick, La., leaving a loaded hopper barge damaged and blocking the… Read More

One crew member is dead and another is missing following a February 10 collision between a skiff and a tow on the Port Allen Route near Plaquemine, La. According to… Read More

A fire at a popular marina on the Tennessee River’s Lake Guntersville near Scottsboro, Ala., has left eight people dead and destroyed 35 boats. The call came into the Scottsboro… Read More