Tugboat rolls 360 under bridge (old story, maybe some remember)

[timothy22]

First saw this about 15 years ago. Still funny. Even two tug captains of my acquaintance think so. Surprised to see it's still on the 'net.

http://www.vts-racon.nl/rariteiten/duwboot.htm

same pics and story, another site

http://www.maxumowners.org/towboat.html

[Submarine Tom]

From the way the text reads, the way the pictures appear and from my experience, I don't believe this tug rolled 360 degrees. Perhaps more like 90 max. Of course I don't know for sure, I wasn't there.

I'm glad I wasn't at the sticks for that one though, that's IS for sure!

Tom

[eponodyne]

I used to deck for a captain who had been the relief mate on that tug. He said that the best thing that could have happened was for it to go down and sink. I also saw it from time to time after it had been bought by KRTCo (Kentucky Rivers Transportation, universally known on the river system as Killers, Rapists and Thieves; if you couldn't get hired by anyone else because of your record you could get a job at KRT; they used the boat as a dumping ground for their problem children. I used to cringe when my tug would have to work that boat.) and the years had definitely not been kind to it.