Accidents

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

The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating after a towing vessel with 15 barges of coal hit an Ohio River bridge in northern Kentucky, west of Cincinnati. No damage was done… Read More

Note: an earlier version of this story was published on January 26. A pair of towing vessels collided near Mile 123 on the Mississippi River January 26, just upriver from… Read More

Note: an updated version of this story can be found here. The Eighth Coast Guard Reported January 26 that three crew members from the mv. R.C. Creppel were missing after… Read More

A Coast Guard investigation has determined a “mate on-watch” falling asleep at the controls caused a tow to hit a Cincinnati-area floating restaurant and marina. The allision between the towing… Read More

The pilot’s over-reliance on physical buoys that happened to be temporarily submerged contributed to the incident on October 23, 2018, in which the tow of the mv. Andrew Cargill MacMillan… Read More