NEW ORLEANS -- A federal program to recruit more tugboat pilots may have backfired by allowing thousands of novice captains to take the helm and contributing to a 25 percent increase in the number of ...

Jacksonville, FL — The firefighters hurt in a cargo ship fire and explosion at Blount Island are now back at home recovering. Captain Mark Raffield and his crew are contract workers with the U.S. Navy ...

This is a story about an individual who attended five different one-room schools while growing up, was finally awarded his high school diploma at the age of 33, started a new career on the river when ...

The hovering U.S. Coast Guard helicopter got the teens' attention. The tugboat maneuvers were also a big hit. But one of the best things about Thursday's career fair at Odyssey, Maritime Discovery ...

GONZALES — Marquette Transportation's president and other company officials on Saturday placed blame for the Sunshine Bridge crash squarely on the tugboat captain and pilot, saying they failed to ...

1923 Episode 5 briefly introduced Lucca, the tugboat captain. In his haste to get home, Spencer Dutton seeks the fastest transportation he can find through the Suez Canal. He offers to work on Lucca’s ...

David Cadiz might live in a landlocked state, but that doesn't prevent him from pursuing his maritime passion. The Arizona resident captains tugboats out of San Francisco Bay, helping to escort big ...

The tugboat pushing a barge that slammed into a sailboat carrying summer campers in Biscayne Bay — killing two girls and seriously injuring two others — may not have been operated by a licensed ...

Arc is partnering with Curtin Maritime to build eight 6,000hp electric tugboats to haul giant cargo ships into port - with no ...