Daily News
Collision tug had no licensed master
24 Jul 2008
NO LICENSED master was aboard the tug that was pushing the oil-laden barge cut in half on the Mississippi River at New Orleans, the US Coast Guard has learned.
Representatives of the DRD Towing tug Mel Oliver told the Coast Guard that one crewman aboard had an apprentice mate’s licence and that none of the others aboard was licensed at all.
The tug was pushing the A ...
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