# Barge overturns in Salmon Bay

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/barge-overturns-in-salmon-bay/16615>\
**Category:** Marine Incidents\
**Created:** [September 1, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/barge-overturns-in-salmon-bay/16615 "2016-09-01T11:17:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![DeepSeaDiver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/deepseadiver/32/21_2.png) [@DeepSeaDiver](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/DeepSeaDiver)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/barge-overturns-in-salmon-bay/16615/1 "2016-09-01T11:17:26Z")

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(Greg Gilbert/The Seattle Times) - By [Christine Clarridge](http://www.seattletimes.com/author/christine-clarridge/)

This happened a little over a week ago. Did anybody hear about it? No injuries reported.

> **[Barge overturns in Salmon Bay](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/barge-overturns-on-salmon-bay/)**
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> A barge moored at Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel overturned early Tuesday; no one was injured.

 ![](http://i.imgur.com/Km8D2Zj.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tugboat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@Tom\_Tugboat](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Tom_Tugboat)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/barge-overturns-in-salmon-bay/16615/2 "2016-09-01T16:38:53Z")

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Don’t know exactly how it happened but I took a bunch of pix going by the next morning.

Apparently for the cost of flipping it back, Manson Construction took ownwership.

Typically water inside the barge

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**Author:** ![rshrew](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/rshrew/32/107_2.png) [@rshrew](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/rshrew)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/barge-overturns-in-salmon-bay/16615/3 "2016-09-04T13:38:44Z")

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She was a tad bit leaky water flowed to one side durning offloading and over she went.
