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1 A line of more than 65 towboats was waiting to pass through the area on Monday morning, the group said in a news release.

2 Harbor towboats grabbed hold of the yacht and a smaller boat that had been caught in the 70-footer’s movement.

3 Eighteen of those collapses happened in the U.S. These include when barges being pushed by a towboat in dense fog hit and displaced the Big Bayou Canot railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama.

4 Figuring out the thick Cajun accents of mariners steering towboats and barges from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway was another matter.

5 About 8,000 gallons of diesel fuel leaked into the river from the sunk towboat.

6 Marquette is the same company that was operating the towboat that crashed barges into Mardi Gras World in New Orleans this year.

7 A towboat pushing a barge carrying liquid fuels or chemicals with a low flashpoint, like benzene, must wait for an assist boat to pull from the other side, grounding the flammable barge to avoid static.

8 The decision was made based on the elevated height of the river and came just hours after a towboat collided with a downtown bridge, damaging its pilot house.

9 The Army Corps “should not hastily recommend a structural alternative that could negatively impact the economy and the safety of towboat crews,” said the lawmakers, who included Reps.

10 For the seven-man crew of the Oliver C. Shearer, one of 70 towboats hauling hundreds of barges carrying goods, the delay at Locks & Dam No. 52 meant killing time.

11 The river was closed from mile marker 224.5 to 226 while a Coast Guard team monitors the water for any signs of pollution and an Army Corps of Engineers crew searches for the sunken towboat.

12 “It doesn’t behave like it used to,” said John Carlin, a towboat pilot who has worked the Hannibal, Mo., riverfront for more than 40 years.

13 A towboat struck a rail bridge on a foggy September morning and threw the train tracks out of alignment.

14 The Tropical Rescue towboat was much bigger than Dad’s bonefish skiff, so there was plenty of room for Mom to ride along.

15 In 1993 a towboat struck a rail bridge in Alabama on a foggy September morning and threw the train tracks out of alignment on the Big Bayou Canot Bridge.

16 Victims and families settled a lawsuit with the towboat company, Magnolia Marine Transport Co., in May 2003 for an undisclosed amount.

17 The university said the Welches and the board of trustees will arrive at the reception in a towboat named after the outgoing president.

18 The president of Upper River Services, the St. Paul-based company that handles barge towing, steered a towboat close enough to the boy for his employees to pull him out of the water.

19 The greatest number of commercial vessels that pass through the Locks are towboats, following by fishing boats, passenger boats and government boats.

20 Some of his earliest and fondest memories are of growing up on a towboat.

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