# Old Maritrans Barge Explodes **URL:** \ **Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\ **Created:** [January 15, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/old-maritrans-barge-explodes/9384 "2013-01-15T16:32:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tugs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/tugs/32/158_2.png) [@Tugs](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Tugs)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/old-maritrans-barge-explodes/9384/1 "2013-01-15T16:32:57Z")
One of the old Deep Notch barges that Maritrans sold to Nigeria exploded in Lagos. There are reports of 4 injuried. [ATTACH]2815[/ATTACH] ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Phoenix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/capt_phoenix/32/281_2.png) [@Capt\_Phoenix](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Capt_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/old-maritrans-barge-explodes/9384/2 "2013-01-15T17:31:25Z")
Which one was that? ---
**Author:** ![Tugs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/tugs/32/158_2.png) [@Tugs](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Tugs)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/old-maritrans-barge-explodes/9384/3 "2013-01-15T18:01:34Z")
I believe it was the 215. It is the only Deep Notch that was not Doubled Hulled. Quite a few of the old boats that I worked on are now over there and re-flagged. I hope that more of them do not end up this way. At least they are not reporting any deaths due to the explosion and we all know how they report only the truth. ---
**Author:** ![highseasmechanic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ee7513/32.png) [@highseasmechanic](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/highseasmechanic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/old-maritrans-barge-explodes/9384/4 "2013-01-15T19:57:36Z")
Two years ago the former US Shipping ITB Jacksonville exploded in Nigeria as well. ---
**Author:** ![87cr250r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/e9a140/32.png) [@87cr250r](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/87cr250r)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/old-maritrans-barge-explodes/9384/5 "2013-01-15T20:13:21Z")
They also crashed the former Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter we gave them on their way to Nigeria. ---
**Author:** ![cmakin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cmakin](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/cmakin)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/old-maritrans-barge-explodes/9384/6 "2013-01-16T04:07:24Z")
When I was in Lagos a few years ago, I saw one of Crowley’s old tugs (either the APACHE or the BLACKHAWK) in the harbor. If I recall, it was called SENATORS or something like that back then. It hadn’t yet burned up or sunk (unlike 40% of the vessels in port). ---
**Author:** ![BMCSRetired](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/bmcsretired/32/1005_2.png) [@BMCSRetired](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/BMCSRetired)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/old-maritrans-barge-explodes/9384/7 "2013-01-16T05:51:20Z")
I think I am seeing a pattern here. They seem to do the same thing with everything they touch including their entire continent. ---
**Author:** ![cmakin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cmakin](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/cmakin)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/old-maritrans-barge-explodes/9384/8 "2013-01-16T06:01:15Z")
[QUOTE=BMCSRetired;94892]I think I am seeing a pattern here. They seem to do the same thing with everything they touch including their entire continent.[/QUOTE] Well, certainly the western equatorial portion . . . although Cameroon isn’t too bad, in a relative way. Oh, and Ivory Coast, at least between the coups. . . . ---
**Author:** ![cappy208](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@cappy208](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/cappy208)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 8:15am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/old-maritrans-barge-explodes/9384/9 "2013-01-16T08:15:42Z")
They better figure out how to run these things… There’s only so much shit we have to sell them!