Tugs & Salvage News
Canadian Tug Company Fined for Fatal Accident as Safety Concerns Are Raised
A Canadian court sentenced the owner of a tugboat service and his company to pay C$310,000 in fines (US$231,260) for a 2021 incide...
Read More >>Excess Speed Caused Tug Grounding in Corpus Christi Ship Channel
The NTSB has released its report on the grounding of a harbor tug outside of the Corpus Christi ship channel in 2022, and it has d...
Read More >>Video: Ukraine Claims Strike on Russian Navy Command Center in Crimea
The Ukrainian military has claimed a successful airstrike on a command complex for the Russian Black Sea Fleet at a site ...
Read More >>Poor Comms Led to Chief Mate's Death in Pilot Ladder Accident
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has censured the operators of two vessels involved in a fatal crew transfer accident...
Read More >>Round-the-World Yacht Race Crewmember Rescued in Long-Range Medevac
Portuguese SAR authorities have successfully completed a complex long-range medevac for a crewmember who was seriously injured dur...
Read More >>Tug Crewmember Rescues Operator of Sunken Crawler Crane
On Tuesday, a good samaritan mariner rescued a machinery operator after a crawler crane fell into the water at a drydock near Memp...
Read More >>Armed Drone From War in Ukraine Washes Up in Bulgarian Resort
Over the weekend, an attack drone fitted with an explosive device washed up on the shores of a resort town on Bulgaria's Black...
Read More >>China's Hospital Ship Visits Nations That Stopped Supporting Taiwan
China's hospital ship, the PLA Navy vessel Peace Ark (Daishan Dao), has completed a goodwill tour of the Pacific Islands and r...
Read More >>Greek-Owned Ferry Helps Rescue Six Migrants off Puerto Rico
Mona Island, a nature reserve located in the passage between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, is often sought out by human...
Read More >>Photos: Russian Sub Suffered Extreme Damage in Ukrainian Strike
New imagery of the graving dock in Sevastopol's Pivdenna Bay appears to confirm that a Ukrainian missile strike has indeed des...
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