The 110-foot dredging barge and the 38-foot tug were overcome in rough seas early Thursday morning about a mile from the Michigan coast and nearly six miles from the opening to the St. Clair River.

LAKEPORT, Mich. — Rough seas temporarily halted efforts Monday to salvage a partially sunken dredging barge in southern Lake Huron, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Crews are trying to refloat 110 ...

Off the bow of the Patuxent II, a whirling auger scrapes years of accumulated muck from the bottom of Rock Creek.Roaring in the stern, the barge’s 365-horsepower diesel engines suck up the ...

I'm no dredging expert, but I think it's safe to assume that at least some of the sunken barge's cargo found its way back into the water, which really sucks because the dredging efforts have been ...

LAKEPORT (WWJ) - A dredging barge that sank in southern Lake Huron earlier this month during stormy weather has been salvaged, and is now at a maintenance dock. Public Affairs Officer Lt. Justin ...

Two barges are the workhorses of the dredging operation. Kylee and Marlin, as they're called by subcontractor Sevenson Environmental, are operated by one person each.

A dredge barge that was taking on water has been intentionally grounded in the Matagorda Ship Channel near Port Lavaca, Texas, the U.S. Saturday, July 5, 2025.

Crippled by fierce winds and waves that snapped all five of its anchor lines, a 260-foot dredging barge with 18 crew members aboard waited out Monday night’s storm while held precariously in ...

SEASIDE HEIGHTS - Three people were injured Monday after a pipe burst on a dredge barge located off Grant Avenue in Seaside Heights. The Coast Guard, which is handling the investigation into the ...

A barge dredging the Lake Worth Inlet sank in rough waters early Saturday, spilling about 200 gallons of diesel fuel before divers sealed off its fuel tanks, a Coast Guard spokesman said. The ...

BRECKENRIDGE - Operations to free the Dredge Restaurant from the land on which it has run aground failed Wednesday morning, ... Dredging fails to free barge. News | Jan 17, 2003.

CROMWELL -- The dredging barge moved slowly along a section of the Connecticut River as it vacuumed up the shoals from the bottom to deepen the channel for river traffic. Officials from the city ...