The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has said that cracks in a muffler (silencer) and the use of combustible materials in accommodation spaces were the causes of a fire on towing vessel Mary Dupre last June while it transited the were Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near Freeport, Texas. The 1974-built Mary Dupre had departed Port…
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