gCaptain, please do better.
The Nisalah is a VLCC, not a bulker. And South Texas Gateway is a crude oil export terminal, not a refinery. These facts are discoverable in less than a minute via Google.
I don’t expect the Coast Guard to get it right, but if gCaptain is to be the premier, trusted source for maritime news, it must.
<mild rant concluded, carry on>
Have heard the grounding was intentional due
to flooding from the ships wheel striking the
tug and tug having a roughly 10’ gash thats
taking water, tug would have gotten out of
shape and gotten under counter on stern,
if that is what happened, and not a collision
per se.I certainly cant confirm thats what
happened though.
Yes, that’s essentially what I have heard from multiple people. Bad day all around, glad no one was hurt.
I saw a photo of water up to the porthole in what looked like the engine room door, and I saw the marks on the ship where the collision was, and came to the same conclusion.
Technically speaking, a VLCC is a wet bulk carrier 
Well, yes. But if dispatch calls me and tells me I’m meeting a bulk carrier, I’m not looking for a tanker … 
paper [g]captain, halfass journalism, great sea stories. It’s why most of us are here.
Ship docking can be a full contact support.