Casualty News – Professional Mariner

03 Feb

Owner gets prison term in fatal capsizing of passenger vessel

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty Newssafety, U.S. Coast Guard

(NEW YORK) — The owner of the vessel Stimulus Money was sentenced to 18 months in prison Thursday after pleading guilty for his role in the July 2022 capsizing of the vessel while underway on the Hudson River. The incident resulted in the death of a 7-year-old boy and 48-year-old woman who were passengers on the boat. Richard Cruz was…

12 Jan

Bulker refloated with incoming tide on Delaware River

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsSalvage, U.S. Coast Guard

(PHILADELPHIA) — The bulk carrier Algoma Verity was refloated Saturday and is moored at Tioga Marine Terminal approximately 2 miles north of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Delaware River. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay watch standers received a report from the pilot aboard Algoma Verity stating the vessel had run aground with no injuries. The…

09 Jan

Bulk carrier grounds outside channel near Philadelphia

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty Newsshipping, U.S. Coast Guard

(PHILADELPHIA) — The U.S. Coast Guard and partners responded to the aground 623-foot motor vessel Algoma Verity approximately a mile north of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in the Delaware River on Wednesday night. As of 8 a.m. Thursday, Algoma Verity is aground outside the main shipping channel. A team from Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay and the vessel’s representatives are…

08 Jan

Bulker freed two weeks after grounding in St. Lawrence River

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsGreat Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System, shipping, Tugboats and towing

(SOREL-TRACY, Quebec) — A Cyprus-flagged bulk carrier that had been stuck in the St. Lawrence River northeast of Montreal since Christmas Eve was refloated on Tuesday, CBC News reported. The Canadian Coast Guard said M/V Maccoa was being escorted by tugboats to Sorel-Tracy, Quebec. The Coast Guard announced earlier in the day that a second attempt to refloat the ship…

02 Jan

Towboat sinks, five rescued after collision with bulker on Lower Mississippi

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty Newsbrownwater, Tugboats and towing, U.S. Coast Guard

(NEW ORLEANS) — The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating a collision between a bulk carrier and a towboat Sunday night that resulted in five mariners being rescued from the Mississippi River near Luling, La., NOLA.com reported. The towboat, the 87-foot Patrick J. Studdert, sank after the collision with the bulker Clara B., according to Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class…

02 Jan

NTSB renews call for passenger vessel SMS after Boston fire

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsNTSB, Passenger vessels, U.S. Coast Guard

(WASHINGTON) — An improperly extinguished chafing fuel heating canister, canned heat used to keep food and beverages warm, led to a fire on the passenger vessel Spirit of Boston last year while moored at the Commonwealth Pier in Boston Harbor, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Tuesday. As a result of the investigation, the NTSB issued four new safety…

20 Dec

Bulker refloated three weeks after St. Lawrence grounding

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsGreat Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System, Salvage, U.S. Coast Guard

(MASSENA, N.Y.) — A Canadian-flagged bulk carrier that ran aground in the St. Lawrence River three weeks ago was refloated Monday after lightering and assistance from three tugboats. The 738-foot Tim S. Dool, loaded with Canadian wheat and en route from Port Weller, Ontario, to Quebec, grounded on Nov. 23 outside the navigation channel on the U.S. side of the…

09 Dec

Seattle fireboat extinguishes burning vessel in Elliott Bay

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsFireboats, Salvage, U.S. Coast Guard

(SEATTLE) — The U.S. Coast Guard, Seattle Fire Department, Washington State Ferries and good Samaritans responded to a vessel on fire in Elliott Bay on Sunday afternoon. The Coast Guard launched a 45-foot response boat-medium and a 29-foot response boat-small from Station Seattle after received reports of a recreational vessel on fire in the vicinity of Duwamish Head Light near…

06 Dec

Wind led houseboat to hit fuel pump, causing marina fire

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsNTSB

(WASHINGTON) — On Aug. 10, 2023, about 1705 local time, the rental houseboat Flagship 604 (state number TN 0174 BD 219), with nine people aboard, was docking at the Sunset Marina on Dale Hollow Lake in Byrdstown, Tenn., to refuel when the bow struck one of the marina’s gasoline fuel pumps, knocking it over. Minutes later, a fire began near…

26 Nov

Bulker loaded with wheat runs aground in St. Lawrence River

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsGreat Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System, shipping

(MORRISBURG, Ontario) — A Canada-flagged bulk carrier ran aground Saturday on the U.S. side of the St. Lawrence River near Morrisburg, Ontario, with operations continuing Tuesday to free the ship. The 738-foot Tim S. Dool, carrying Canadian wheat from Port Weller to Quebec, grounded outside the navigation channel at about 12:30 p.m. No injuries or pollution were reported, and the…