NTSB releases report on deadly tugboat crash

[@boomerang379]

It’s a towboat not a tugboat.

[@paxmule]

THANK YOU - THAT WAS MAKING ME CRAZY!

[@EricBrueggeman-f3s]

Tugboat

[@omartin30]

yes

[@frederickjeremy]

98% of the time that part of the river is very little current if any at all. Ive been at it for 18 years now and 2 out of the 3 times I’ve seen current run there hard enough to eat a wheel man’s lunch it did or almost did. The other time it didn’t was for the floods of Harvey where the current was moving so fast boats couldn’t even get up there. Then the circumstances were so obviously dangerous it caught nobody off guard.

[@Ecoboosttookadump]

So funny hearing yuppies try and talk about whats oblivious to them.

[@brianladyman6426]

Rule 1 on down streaming ALWAYS when I’m doubt shove out. What he did was a stupid maneuver. He turned the boat he should have walked over.

[@AlongtheRiverLife]

Got in a hurry and it did not work out this time, it might have all the other times, but it only takes once.

[@dentonsbackyardshow1013]

Thats j hooking Not the proper way to downstream in current.

[@blusnuby2]

Are the flat-bottomed river tugboats inherently unstable ? Maybe the crews should get a bonus when the rivers run high & fast....

[@gwalker173]

Kinda. It looks more like he was trying to move the barge on a head line and went to reposition when he did he got pushed into it because he was kinda down streaming it and because the water right doors were open she sank quick. On the tug I’m on as long as you have a good amount of fuel and water she’s stable but get it light and she becomes top heavy and most are like that because you’re only drafting 7 feet and you have 30 or more feet out of the water

[@blusnuby2]

@@gwalker173 Good info, thanks !