It's hard to imagine tht these three guys could have all missed seeing
this bearing down on them. I can understand how the tug operator
might have missed seeing them.

It's not for me. We were in the Atchafalaya River one morning on our way to
a great oxbow isolated fishing lake south of Butte La Rose, Louisiana called
Cow Island Lake. Google earth it, and you will see the tiny cut we are
talking about. We rounded a corner and came into a narrow cut about the
same time a barge was coming out of it. We nearly ran into it head-on. We
had been on that stretch many times, but had never once seen a barge in that
cut. We figured he got in there by mistake, or may have been taking it as a
shortcut. There wasn't very much clearance as it was. We had to wait a
good bit before the big barges and pushboat came out so we could go in. It
was before dawn, and a dark night. Luckily not stormy.

Things happen quick on the water.

Steve

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Steve

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A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.