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Roman barge under Cologne to reveal shipping history Posted : Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:08:05 GMT Cologne, Germany - Excited archaeologists are raising part of a Roman barge that sank near the wharf nearly 2,000 years ago in the German riverside city of Cologne. Cologne, which derives its modern name from the town's Latin name, Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, is full of Roman remains including a largely intact aqueduct. But the oaken boat, found 12 metres below the surface during excavations a few days ago for an underground mass-transit line, is something special, offering scientists a new window into life...

Coast Guard tracking abandonded Russian barge adrift near Kenai Peninsula, Alaska 9/20/06 Juneau, Alaska The Coast Guard is monitoring what appears to be an abandoned coal barge approximately 200-feet in length located nearly 60 miles southeast of the Kenai Peninsula. It was initially spotted in May, drifting 250 miles south of the Aleutian chain. There are no markings on the barge to indicate a port or country of origin. The only markings on the barge are "CTP 424," located approximately 20-feet aft on the port and starboard sides, and a Russian class society load line along the waterline. The barge...

Daphne Lee-Larson said goodbye to her house Sunday morning. Actually, she wished it a bon voyage. She was looking up at the second-floor bedroom window of 3218 Eastlake Ave. E. and remembered how she and her husband once had to climb up to it on a ladder when it was bedtime because they were having the ground floor resanded. 3218 Eastlake Ave. E., though, was no longer on Eastlake Avenue East. The yellow, 3,000- square-foot house had been lifted and then rolled on a dolly with wheels as big as airplane tires from the spot where it had sat since...

The 950' container ship New Delhi Express has grounded at the entrance to Port Elizabeth in NY harbor. She is listing heavily to her starboard and her draft has increased from 35' to 44' since striking the edge of the ship channel at Bergen Point. No news organizations covering this yet.

The conspiracy kooks are coming out of the woodwork in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. According to information "obtained" by radio show host Hal Turner, divers have uncovered evidence that explosives were used to break the 17th Street Canal levee in New Orleans. Also, according to an article by kook extraordinaire Ernesto Cienfuegos, this was accomplished by federal agents or military personnel who ended up in a firefight with New Orleans police.

Hurricane Force Anatomy of a Flood: 3 Deadly Waves Canal, 2 Lakes Swamped Eastern New Orleans As Storm Tore Through Mr. Mullet's Fight to Survive By JEFF D. OPDYKE, EVAN PEREZ and ANN CARRNS Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL September 7, 2005; Page A1 NEW ORLEANS -- On Aug. 29, as Hurricane Katrina brought chaos to this city, three massive waves of water poured largely unseen into the eastern section of town and neighboring St. Bernard Parish. One surged west, off a churning Lake Borgne. Another came across from Lake Pontchartrain in the north. That sent a steel...

/begin my summary3 N. Koreans, presumed to be a family, defected at Baek-ryong island[Yonhap News, 2005/06/26] Around 9:55 am on June 26, 2.9 miles away to the North East of Baek-ryong Island, a N. Korean barge indicated the willingness to defect. It was towed to Yong-ki-po Harbor at Baek-ryong Island at 11:40 am, according to the (S. Korean) Joint Chief of Staffs. Inside the boat were Mr. Hong(male, age:42), Mr. Moon(female, age:39), a 15-year-old boy. They are presumed to be a family. They reportedly left Yong-hyun, Ku-mi-po District, N. Korea.around 5:30 am, June 25. The barge is an 1.7-ton boat...

Jan 19, 2005 4:57 pm US/Central CHICAGO (CBS 2) A violent explosion has ripped through a barge that was floating freely on the sanitarian ship canal just east of Cicero Avenue overpass on the Southwest Side. The back half of the barge was consumed by fire. Initial reports indicate that it was a petroleum barge. Additional debris from the explosion has been blown quite a distance onto the Cicero Avenue bridge. Police worked to close the bridge and clear it rush-hour traffic...

barge offloading gasoline at an oil depot in Staten Island exploded with earthquake force yesterday, shaking businesses, homes and nerves for miles around as towering black smoke spread a pall over much of New York City. Two barge crewmen were killed and a depot worker on shore was critically burned. Swift work by firefighters prevented flames from igniting any of the scores of petroleum storage tanks that dot the industrial landscape nearby. And while the cause of the explosion was still under investigation, the authorities said that it appeared to be an accident, not the work of terrorists. Investigators said...

U.S. fugitive was hitting on local women 'He probably thought ... we wouldn't notice, but we noticed' OWEN SOUND, Ont. -- A man wanted by the FBI for impersonating a U.S. special forces captain at a fatal interstate bridge collapse in Oklahoma strutted around the small Georgian Bay community of Tobermory for three days before his arrest this weekend, says the woman who turned him in to provincial police. Carla Watson, who telephoned police early Sunday to tell them about the fugitive's whereabouts, said yesterday that William Clark may have been on the run, but he was certainly not...

OPP arrest fugitive wanted by FBI for allegedly posing as military official TOBERMORY, Ont. (CP) - The provincial police have arrested an American man wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after he allegedly posed as a military official. Ontario Provincial Police arrested the man for fraud and theft-related charges early Sunday morning as he waited to board a ferry in Tobermory. U.S. officials have accused the man of posing as a military special forces captain and taking control of rescue efforts after a bridge collapsed on May 26 in Webbers Falls, Okla. Fourteen people died when a ship...

AUTHORITIES WANT TO QUESTION A POSSIBLE CON ARTIST Police say he told everyone he was in charge of the I-40 bridge collapse just moments after the disaster. Now the alleged imposter shows up in Arkansas. Searcy police say 36-year old William Clark of southeast Missouri entered the Truman Baker Dodge dealership on may 29th wearing army fatigues and a beret. Clark told the dealership he was a captain in the US Army Special Forces and wanted to borrow a truck to haul supplies to Oklahoma. After showing the salesmen a video of the bridge collapse they tossed him the...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) -- A man who showed up at last month's deadly bridge collapse in eastern Oklahoma claiming to be an Army officer may be a Missouri ex-convict with a history of impersonation, according to a newspaper report. The FBI is investigating the man who arrived in Webbers Falls two hours after a barge struck the Interstate 40 bridge and caused it to tumble into the Arkansas River, killing 14 people. The man, dressed in fatigues and a beret, identified himself as Capt. William Clark from Fort Carson, Colo. A Missouri law officer and a relative of the...

The FBI is investigating a man who called himself an Army captain and looked through a briefcase and laptop computer belonging to a victim of last month's deadly interstate bridge collapse. The man, wearing fatigues and a beret, showed up within two hours of the Interstate 40 collapse and told the mayor he was in charge. He identified himself as Capt. William Clark. Mayor Jewell Horne said Wednesday that the man told her Army Capt. Andrew Clements had died in the river and that his briefcase and laptop were in the water. A fisherman found the items the day...

The owner of the towboat whose barge collapsed the Interstate 40 bridge near Webbers Falls has asked a federal court to limit its liability. The injured and the families of the 14 people killed in the May 26 bridge collapse would be unable to receive more than a combined total of about $1.2 million for their losses if a judge approves the petition filed Monday by Magnolia Marine Transport Co. If the petition succeeds, that total also would apply in case the state and federal governments seek monetary damages for the bridge. "We filed a petition for exoneration and/or...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — The towboat pilot who said he blacked out before his barge struck an interstate highway bridge, killing 14 people, had a heart condition he didn't know about, an official said. Joe Dedmon, 61, has heart blockage, said Ken Suydam, an investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board. His comments were made at a non-public meeting on Friday, the Muskogee Daily Phoenix reported. NTSB spokeswoman Lauren Peduzzi said it was not known if Dedmon's condition had anything to do with the blackout or the crash. She said Dedmon was transferred Friday to a hospital in Jackson,...

WEBBERS FALLS, Okla. (AP) -- The pilot who said he blacked out just before his barge toppled an interstate bridge had slept fewer than 10 hours in the roughly two days previous, investigators say. But chief investigator Ken Suydam said Thursday that Capt. Joe Dedmon told the National Transportation Safety Board that he was not tired before the collision that killed 14 people. Dedmon's barge rammed the Interstate 40 bridge in eastern Oklahoma early Sunday morning, collapsing 500-feet of the span and sending 10 vehicles into the murky Arkansas River. "We have not reached a conclusion,'' Suydam told reporters....

CBS) (WEBBERS FALLS, Oklahoma) May 30, 2002 6:01 pm US/Eastern The investigation into the barge accident that collapsed a portion of the Interstate 40 bridge over the Arkansas River is now focusing on the captain of the towboat, Joe Dedmon. Fourteen people were killed when a barge he was towing rammed into the bridge Sunday morning. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board interviewed Dedmon on Wednesday, said Brett Beuerman, spokesman for barge owner Magnolia Marine Transport Co. of Vicksburg, Miss. "It went the way we thought it would go," Beuerman said Thursday. "There were no surprises." Ken Suydam, the...

Not much info and no injuries reported, but a barge has broken apart and hit the Greenville, MS bridge. No word of damage and no news reports as yet. I work for a towing conpany in the south so this is breaking news for us. Also this is my first post so forgive any errors!

A Norman police detective and his wife are believed to be among those missing and feared dead in the Arkansas River when the I-40 bridge collapsed early Sunday morning. Norman Police Chief Phil Cotten said Wayne Martin and his wife, Susan, left Sunday morning to attend a family reunion in Clarksville, Ark. They were driving a 2001 full-size Chevrolet pickup truck. When they didn’t arrive at the reunion and couldn’t be reached on their cell phone, family members believe they fell to their deaths in the Arkansas River. Cotten said the couple’s two daughters haven’t been able to reach...

The tugboat that struck and toppled a 580-foot section of an Interstate 40 bridge over the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma also collided into a Mississippi River bridge in St. Louis about eight years ago, U.S. Coast Guard records reveal. A search of the Coast Guard's database revealed 11 pages of records involving the Robert Y Love -- the tug that struck the interstate bridge in Webbers Falls, Okla. The report included two references to steering problems and a reference to a May 4, 1994, incident in St. Louis. "M/V Robert Y. Love allided [struck] with Eads Bridge rupturing...

List Of Bridge And Barge Collapses Monday May 27, 2002 1:40 AM A list of notable accidents involving barges hitting bridges, according to the Gulf Coast Mariners Association, which keeps track of such accidents: - May 9, 1980: The 609-foot freighter Summit Venture was navigating through the narrow, winding shipping channel of Florida's Tampa Bay when a sudden, blinding squall knocked out the ship's radar. The ship sheared a bridge support, dropping a 1,400-foot section of concrete roadway during morning rush hour. Seven vehicles, including a bus with 26 aboard, fell 150 feet into the water. Thirty-five people died. -...