"rcoleman" wrote in message
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Here's the USCG story. The Coast Guard is currently responding to a
distress call from the 135-foot tugboat, Valour, towing a 500-foot barge
loaded with approximately 140,000 barrels of petroleum by-product 37 miles
off the coast of Cape Fear, N.C.

How do you call a 500ft barge missing? Does that mean sunk?

https://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/586/109280/



Is a 135 tug boat really supposed to be out in 15-20 foot seas?