Accidents

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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Read More

Navigation on the western Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) was hampered for at least a week following the sinking of two barges near Mile 510.5 WHL (west of Harvey… Read More

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its marine accident brief detailing the agency’s investigation into the October 2018 capsizing and sinking of the mv. Miss Roslyn… Read More

Witnesses watched as a bridge-construction workboat began taking on water, sending four people into 37-degree Mississippi River waters November 21. Fortunately, the four workmen were able to attract… Read More