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
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The probable cause of the engineroom fire that resulted in the complete burning of the towing vessel mv. Jacob Kyle Rusthoven on September 12, 2018, was an engine lube oil… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its marine accident brief June 13 on the fatal capsizing of the mv. Natalie Jean on the Lower Mississippi River near New Orleans,… Read More
Inadequate maintenance caused the sinking of the mv. Ms. Nancy C on March 6, 2018. That was the conclusion of the National Transportation Safety Board, which released its report March… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a pair of marine accident briefs detailing incidents aboard two towboats, the mv. Ricky Robinson and the mv. J.W. Herron. The incidents… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently released Marine Accident Briefs stating its findings on several marine incidents involving towboats from the summer of 2017. James H Hunter ​At about… Read More
In a recent report, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that the pilot of the mv. Eric Haney failed to identify charted erosion-control dikes, resulting in the sinking of… Read More
