Tugboat sinks in Mississippi River near Chalmette. Two people missing

I’m assuming the high river is giving some of these captains fits. Hope they’re safe.

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hope the guys had on vests and made it onshore

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They’ll be extremely lucky if they did. The river doesn’t forgive.

I worked on the river for a while. Guy fell off a barge one day. Had a life vest on.

Got sucked under the barge and popped out a minute later on the other side. Dead as driftwood.


She’s a cruel bitch. And mean as hell when she’s high like this.

from the comments section in one of the articles. doesnt sound good :/

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The tugboat was pulled under a ship at General Anchorage. I watched the whole thing happen and we were able to rescue the only person that surfaced, which was the Captain of the tugboat. Still no sign of the other 2 crew members. Pray for them.

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there has to be more than a three man crew on that thing. i

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not if it's a 12 hour boat...

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i worked for Cenac towing for a few years out of high school.
We had six minimum.

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depends on the size of the boat plus if you were working for Cenac you were pushing red flag barges which were required to have 2 tankerman

yes we were, but we had to make tow under way sometimes which required a few people to work the cables and ratchets.
this was around 1978

ok we were 30 on and 30 off, it sucked. it is where i really learned to cook. No cost groceries

i am from Houma and one of the cenac sons my friend has a camp on my land in S AR.

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They’ll be extremely lucky if they did. The river doesn’t forgive.

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One person was rescued from the river. You can watch the video in the article and hear someone saying someone is in the river. No actual video of the rescue tbough. It was not one of the two that went missing.

i read the captain said one of the other crewmembers was in his rack when they went down. i cant even imagine how shitty that mustve been