The Coast Guard suspended its search for three missing mariners, Monday, after two towboats collided on the Mississippi River at mile marker 123, near Luling, La., Sunday. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a report early Sunday morning that the 69’x30’x10′ towboat RC Creppel and the 186’x54’x10′ line haul towing vessel Cooperative Spirit collided near New Orleans. Four members of the RC Creppel went missing. One crewmember was later rescued.
Coast Guard crews searched over 835 nautical...