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More shit fuckery ?
Several barges, one containing 1,400 tons of methanol, loose on the Ohio River near Louisville
Some barges are stuck at the McAlpine Dam.
 

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All greed fueled.

We have tug boats, my buddy was an engineer on one at Baltimore's inner Harbor.

But they are costly to use.

So, the greedy shipping lines demanded the boats be engineered self sufficient, bow & stern thrusters.

Works great right up until it doesn't.


Pretty sure the inquest will show they were limping that pig into port, struggling with electrical problems. Should have anchored outside. Greed.

Negligence resulting in deaths.

Or, domestic terrorism, bad guys board the boat, kill the power, take the bridge, stuff it into the bridge, threaten the Captain to kill his entire family unless he shuts up. Depart on 22' center console they arrived on.
 
concours said:
Procedures

Redundancy in systems

This stinks to hell
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Probably a lack of redundancy in systems - lack of maintenance. Even when everything is in order imagine the windage on that vessel with containers stacked a mile high . Was the tide running
out ? If so steerage compromised even when all is functioning.
As Concours noted - all on board ( and unfortunately traffic on the bridge) must answer to the almighty dollar.
Want to get pissed off ? Read this :
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Sad state of affairs for USA’s Merchant Marine - second highest casualties in WWII - topped only by the Marine Corps .
Sold down the river by stupid protectionist collusion between shipowners , merchants and sadly their own unions.
The once proud traditions of the sea ( traditions that promoted safe passage) whittled away.
 
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There is already conspiracy theory talk that crew had zero control, systems were hacked and someone pointed it at the bridge.
 
Richard Tool said:
Probably a lack of redundancy in systems - lack of maintenance. Even when everything is in order imagine the windage on that vessel with containers stacked a mile high . Was the tide running
out ? If so steerage compromised even when all is functioning.
As Concours noted - all on board ( and unfortunately traffic on the bridge) must answer to the almighty dollar.
Want to get pissed off ? Read this :
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Sad state of affairs for USA’s Merchant Marine - second highest casualties in WWII - topped only by the Marine Corps .
Sold down the river by stupid protectionist collusion between shipowners , merchants and sadly their own unions.
The once proud traditions of the sea ( traditions that promoted safe passage) whittled away.
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So much shit.

Everywhere.
 
Single thruster

Ever steer a PWC?

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I expect that the two pilots in charge of the ship will need attorneys and a new line of work. Of course all, or most
Chesapeake Bay pilots will be on leave until the bridge remnants are removed from the shipping channel. This whole
thing will be a monumental financial mess and will be litigated for years to come. All because the expense of hiring
tug boats cuts too deeply into profits. And that doesn't even begin to address the loss of life.
 
Richard Tool said:
Probably a lack of redundancy in systems - lack of maintenance. Even when everything is in order imagine the windage on that vessel with containers stacked a mile high . Was the tide running
out ? If so steerage compromised even when all is functioning.
As Concours noted - all on board ( and unfortunately traffic on the bridge) must answer to the almighty dollar.
Want to get pissed off ? Read this :
View attachment 113348
Sad state of affairs for USA’s Merchant Marine - second highest casualties in WWII - topped only by the Marine Corps .
Sold down the river by stupid protectionist collusion between shipowners , merchants and sadly their own unions.
The once proud traditions of the sea ( traditions that promoted safe passage) whittled away.
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Hillsboro, NH — Captain Robert M. Cusick Jr., a merchant marine officer who survived the wreck of the SS Marine Electric and then helped lead a major reform of US maritime safety standards, died peacefully in his sleep in New Hampshire on Thursday, September 12, 2013. He was 90 years old.
Against the advice of many friends and colleagues, Captain Cusick testified at a US Marine Board of Investigation and detailed how inspectors and company officials overlooked numerous holes in the hatches, decks and hull of the Marine Electric, an old, dilapidated World War II era tanker converted to coal carrier.
The reforms that Captain Cusick’s efforts helped establish included the creation of the now famous US Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers service, the scrapping of 70 old unsafe ships and the requirement of survival suits aboard North Atlantic run vessels.
“Bob Cusick was a brave and humble everyman hero who spoke up at a time when he easily could have remained silent,” said Robert R. Frump, the former maritime writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “His testimony was crucial to ending a bad system that had sent dozens of old and unsafe ships out to sea and seamen to their deaths.”
By most standards of survival and hypothermia, Captain Cusick, the chief mate of the SS Marine Electric, ought to have perished with dozens of others in February 1983. The SS Marine Electric foundered during a severe storm in February 1983, spilling 34 men into icy cold water where they faced sixty foot waves and below-freezing winds.
Life expectancy in such conditions is as little as 15 minutes, but Captain Cusick, wo was 59 at the time, managed to find a half-submerged lifeboat and as he felt himself fading sang out a song written by Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers with the lines, “Rise again, rise again! Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!”
He attributed his survival to that and a warm coat and hat given to him by his wife, Mrs. Bea Cusick.
Captain Cusick was warned by colleagues that his testimony would bring the ire of the ship’s owner, Marine Transport Lines, and indeed company attorneys sought to pin the responsibility for the wreck on Captain Cusick.
However, Captain Cusick kept detailed records of his complaints to the captain of the Marine Electric, with drawings of holes and other maintenance problems on the old ship. His logs, cross-checked against Coast Guard inspections, showed the hatches were approved by the Coast Guard at a time when the hatches were not even installed on the vessel.
Captain Cusick’s testimony helped convince the Board of Investigation to write a highly critical report, calling on the Coast Guard to crack down on inspections. Marine Transport Line later pleaded guilty to a felony criminal count brought by federal authorities. Over the previous 20 years, old ships such as the Marine Electric had accounted for more than 500 deaths at sea. More than 70 were scrapped in the wake of Captain Cusick’s testimony.
Captain Cusick grew up in Boston and began his life at sea as a member of the Sea Scouts, a maritime version of the Boy Scouts of America. He was attending the prestigious Boston Latin school when at the beginning of World War II, he shipped out as a merchant seamen at a time when German submarines were taking a terrible toll of Atlantic Coast shipping.
He survived the war, often narrowly missing ships that would sail to their doom, and by its end was a merchant marine officer. Mechant mariners, historians say, suffered among the highest per capita losses during the War, second only to the U.S. Marines.
He would later gain his master’s license and sailed for three decades on US flag ships as an officer. He preferred to sail as chief mate – the number two position on a merchant ship – so that he could deal directly with ship mates. He was a popular officer with a kind heart and a quick wit, often taking young crewmen and officers under his wing for mentoring.
His actions are detailed in a book, “Until the Sea Shall Free Them,” written about the wreck of the Marine Electric.
Captain Cusick is survived by his wife, Bea, his daughter, Carol, both of Hillsborough. Arrangements: Wednesday 18 September, 6-8pm, visiting hours at Woodbury/Holt funeral home on School St. in Hillsboro. Service Thursday 19 September, 11 am, at St. Mary’s Church, followed by a send off at the Legion Hall.

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Cusick lived in my little town, and I met him lots of times. I never knew his story till he died. Heros are everywhere but the real ones don't go out of their way to make themselves known.
 
Accident or deliberate? I do not know, or have any opinion given what we know at this time.
But this I am sure of, ...... if any Intel agency of the US Govt has evidence that this was NO ACCIDENT, such evidence will be buried deeper than that which was buried showing Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone.

Slick
 
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