http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/13653862.htm

Two sailors die, one missing from sunken tugboat off Cape Fear

Costello said Wednesday he didn't know what caused the barge bound for
Corpus Christi, Texas, to sink. The company has owned the Valour since
1975, and the tug was pulling a 500-foot barge loaded with about 5.5
million gallons of petroleum byproduct when it went down.

"It was just a normal trip," he said.

I am surprised that a tugboat and barge consider gale force winds off of
Cape Fear to be "normal".

Barge's have never really looked that stable to me, a flat bottom boat
in heavy seas seems a recipe for disaster.
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Reggie
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