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It was just a normal trip

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/13653862.htm

Two sailors die, one missing from sunken tugboat off Cape Fear

Costello said Wednesday he didn't know what caused the barge bound for Corpus Christi, Texas, to sink. The company has owned the Valour since 1975, and the tug was pulling a 500-foot barge loaded with about 5.5 million gallons of petroleum byproduct when it went down.

"It was just a normal trip," he said.

I am surprised that a tugboat and barge consider gale force winds off of Cape Fear to be "normal".

Barge's have never really looked that stable to me, a flat bottom boat in heavy seas seems a recipe for disaster.

 Reggie
Jan 19
2006
But was the tug that went down, not the barge. ( Unless the barge went down and came up again, the barge going down must be a typo.)

/Lars j

 Lars
Jan 20
Just a routine work day for them.

> Barge's have never really looked that stable to me, a flat bottom boat in > heavy seas seems a recipe for disaster.

I'll give you $1000 for every one that flounders if you give me $100 for every one that doesn't. :-)

 Capt. Bill

A
Jan 19
   
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