A stowaway with more than 500 pounds of cocaine and a gun was found on board a barge off the coast of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday, marking the second time this year that authorities detained a stowaway holding a huge stash of drugs in the same harbor. Crewmembers from two Coast … Read more
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An investigation is underway after two crew members of a tugboat were killed and two others were harmed in what the Coast Guard described Wednesday as a “confined space incident” aboard a barge moored in southeast Alaska. A news release from the agency provided limited details about what happened to the four, … Read more
A massive fire broke out Tuesday morning on a barge carrying huge piles of scrap metal on the Delaware Bay. The barge appeared to be standing still as boats on both sides of it fired water cannons into the piles of burning metal. Smoke billowed from several fires that were burning on the boat. It … Read more