Captain’s inexperience probable cause of towboat sinking: NTSB

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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued a Marine Accident Brief on the sinking of the 1997-built Marquette Transportation towboat St Rita. On March 7th 2019 at about 14:30 local time, towboat St Rita was shifting hopper barge LTD 14161 across the Mississippi River to the...

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