Hearing Examines Wreck That Caused New Orleans Oil Spill
Texas / South Central News • August 13, 2008
Storms in New Orleans halted work to clean up oil spilled along the Mississippi River as the Coast Guard prepared Aug. 11 for a hearing about who is to blame for the wreck that caused the spill in ...
Insurance Journal is not responsible for the content of the message below.
Subject: crash
Posted On: August 29, 2008, 7:07 am CDT
Posted By: capt.
Comment:
i am a river boat captain on the lower misissippi river. i thank DRD towing should be criminaly chaged in this case
beacouse these companys use stearsman
as pilots to keep the wages down form the
master piolts. also as a river boat capt.
we do not make 300,000 a year like the ship pilots do but we do go by the same rules i would like to know why the ship did not slow down or try to drop anchor
before hiting the tug remember he never talked to the tug on the radio the rules state (USE ANY AND ALL AVELABLE MEANS TO AVOID A COLLISION) ANY AND ALL!
Subject: crash
beacouse these companys use stearsman
as pilots to keep the wages down form the
master piolts. also as a river boat capt.
we do not make 300,000 a year like the ship pilots do but we do go by the same rules i would like to know why the ship did not slow down or try to drop anchor
before hiting the tug remember he never talked to the tug on the radio the rules state (USE ANY AND ALL AVELABLE MEANS TO AVOID A COLLISION) ANY AND ALL!