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The Coast Guard responded to a tug boat requesting assistance after the captain of the tug noticed the vessels being towed were listing into each other, Oct. 31, approximately 2 miles offshore and South of the Mansfield Jetties. U.S. Coast Guard photos and video.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coast Guard and state and local authorities began working to ensure the safe transport of two troubled vessels being towed to a Brownsville scrap yard after one began listing into the other Thursday.
At approximately 8 a.m. Thursday, the captain of the tug with the vessels in tow called Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi watchstanders to request assistance as one of the vessels was listing heavily into the other approximately 2 miles offshore and South of the Mansfield Jetties.
The Coast Guard activated its Incident Management Team, which will work with state and local authorities to evaluate the situation and mitigate any risks the vessel may pose to any persons or the environment. The IMT has diverted the Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless to assist and escort the vessels to the Port of Brownsville. Also, an additional tug has been dispatched from Brownsville to assist in the tow.
The vessels, both Offshore Supply Vessels, are approximately 200-feet in length, are being towed from Louisiana to the scrap yard in Brownsville. There are currently no persons onboard either OSV. The vessel names are Ken Tide and Louie Tide.
The owner of the vessels has been notified and has reported that neither vessel has an oil supply onboard that could pose a pollution risk to the environment, but Coast Guard pollution response personnel are on-scene investigating.
WTF? Were they towing the pair tied up side by side? Probably used old rotten mooring lines to tie them together with only tires as fenders between them. SHEESH…where to they find these people?
[QUOTE=c.captain;123606]WTF? Were they towing the pair tied up side by side? Probably used old rotten mooring lines to tie them together with only tires as fenders between them. SHEESH…where to they find these people?[/QUOTE]
Yes that was very effing dumb towing 2 old rust bucket Turdwater slabs side by side like that. They probably knocked a hole in each other in 6 inch sea’s because they are so rusted out. Some one must have been trying to sink them because there is not enough steel left in them in them to scrap
of course, it appears that the stern lines parted and the weight of the common bridle between the two vessels sucked their bows tightly together beating the crap out of both. I love how the house on the one boat just crumpled!
Even the rust has rust on it!
just thought of the irony if they had been the KEN TIDE and BARBIE TIDE?
Years ago we would tandem tow ships from James River to Andy international. We’d shorten up at Port Isabel and tow them side by side up the channel. But side by side across the Gulf??
