98% of the time that part of the river is very little current if any at all. Ive been at it for 18 years now and 2 out of the 3 times I’ve seen current run there hard enough to eat a wheel man’s lunch it did or almost did. The other time it didn’t was for the floods of Harvey where the current was moving so fast boats couldn’t even get up there. Then the circumstances were so obviously dangerous it caught nobody off guard.
Kinda. It looks more like he was trying to move the barge on a head line and went to reposition when he did he got pushed into it because he was kinda down streaming it and because the water right doors were open she sank quick. On the tug I’m on as long as you have a good amount of fuel and water she’s stable but get it light and she becomes top heavy and most are like that because you’re only drafting 7 feet and you have 30 or more feet out of the water
