LeClaire and Port Byron are gearing up for the annual tug of war across the Mississippi this weekend. Tug teams pull 2,700 feet and 680 pounds of rope spanning the river.
A few hundred yards away, a row of barges are parked like cars along the riverbank, weighed down in the water by 3 million pounds of rock each. They’ll transport six at a time to Marrero—9,000 tons of cargo lined up in two parallel rows. The front of the towboat features rubber-padded columns, which are known as tow knees.
In Marraro, Louisiana, a small towboat named the Rougarou, after the Cajun swamp monster reminiscent of a werewolf, helps the crew tie up the rock barges to a row of barges in the Ten Mile Exchange fleet, located, as the name suggests, 10 river miles up the ICW from the Mississippi.
Last week, the Mississippi Attorney General’s office confirmed that it had taken over the investigation but said that decision was made because District Attorney Bilbo Mitchell had requested his office be recused. “I coached Christian in soccer. I’m friends with the Andreccio [sic] family …
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Barges and boats are once again moving in the Mississippi River below the I-40 Hernando de Soto bridge in Memphis.
Amherst Madison deckhand Ryan Gilleran describes life on a towboat transporting barges full of coal, and other materials, up and down America's waterways. When…
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Carla Jenkins and Marcus Chatman watch as the “Bettye M. Jenkins” towboat goes under the Natchez Bridge. Heather McClelland. She frequently gets unwelcome calls in the middle of the night from her crew. Once, she was told that a collision with a bridge had left a gash in the side of a tank barge.
One of Carla Jenkins’s towboats, the “Bettye M. Jenkins,” sits at her dock in Vidalia, Louisiana on Oct. 6, 2019. Jenkins’s father, who built the boat, named it after Jenkins’s mother. Heather McClelland for Atlas Obscura
Because they typically lack propulsion of their own, barges strike bridges with some frequency. Sometimes they sink; once, a rice barge sank to the riverbed, and when the millions of grains hit the water, they expanded, warping the steel walls of the barge.
A runaway barge could t-bone a bridge, sending cars plunging into the water below. The crew could fish the cold body of a woman out of the water, only to find that she has survived a fall of 120 feet without so much as breaking a bone.
Heather McClelland. At around 10 miles per hour, they slip under the Huey P. Long Bridge, which was the first built in Louisiana across the Mississippi River, and they pass by the French Quarter, the oldest and most famous neighborhood in New Orleans.
In the morning, it’s finally the Vidalia Dock’s turn to go through the lock and onto the ICW, which runs all the way to Texas. At the higher water level of the Mississippi, the towboat moves into the lock chamber.
Boats are raised and lowered by way of the lock’s enclosed chamber, so that they can safely move between the two channels, which run at different water levels. Jenkins came to work for her father’s business 38 years ago, and she’s been running the company for over 15 years now.
For the last 28 years, Adam says he has worked on the Mississippi River, serving as a tugboat pilot since 1997. He was drawn to the water because of the camaraderie on the job and he likes the work, spending 28 days on duty at a time before he’s off for 28 days. “It’s satisfying work.
Adam claims he didn’t leave the guest house until he discovered Zahau’s body while walking to go get coffee early the next morning. Adam claimed in court that after he parted ways with Zahau the night of July 12, he went straight to the guest house, made a few phone calls, and went to bed around 9 p.m.
Adam denied knowing how to do complicated knots such as the “clove hitch knot,” “cow hitch knot,” or “lark’s head knot,” telling the jury he had never tied them before and that they weren’t needed in his job. 3. Adam has been dating the same woman for more than 20 years, but lives alone.
Tuggers use all of their strength to pull against Illinois during Tugfest, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in LeClaire.
Bob Davis of Wisconsin with the Game Stop Team, tugs on a rope at Tugfest on Saturday in LeClaire.
Ivory Stacy, of Moline, sunglasses reflect his forearms during Tugfest, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in LeClaire.
Ray Wipperfurth of Wisconsin tugs with his teammates at Tugfest, Saturday in LeClaire.
Thomas West of LeClaire cheers after a good match against Illinois at Tugfest, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in LeClaire.
Tuggers dig their heels into the dirt to plat them selves while pull against Illinois during Tugfest, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in LeClaire.
The crowd at Tugfest cheers for the tuggers, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in LeClaire.
Dubose says the arrests have not been made because he and the city prosecutor agreed there wouldn’t be enough evidence to get murder charges through a preliminary hearing.
He secured a substitute and arranged for a friend to pick him up on shore in St. Rose, La. , on the morning of Feb. 26. Stanley says she is not sure whether the phone call the previous night came from Dylan Swearingen, who picked up Christian the next morning and was with him the day he died.
But a fourth individual present that night, Zac Tabb, perhaps the last hope to shed light on what happened, was not contacted by Meridian police until a little more than a month ago. When asked why Tabb wasn’t contacted until recently given the conflicting reports, Dubose said he could not recall Jett’s statement.
Her explanation, according to police reports, is she and three friends had shot a gun in the early morning hours near Hayes Road in Meridian. Two of the individuals with her, cousins Jett and Matt Miller, gave conflicting accounts when interviewed by investigators.
Detective Jerry Bratu with the Meridian Police Department told the family via email on May 24, 2016, he was “waiting for the DA to give me a go ahead” for the crime lab to release the DNA sample to Sorenson. Three days later, he said he was still waiting to hear from the district attorney.
Dubose decided to reopen the case .</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000">The first problem, Dubose said, was Lee’s decision to show up at the crime scene. Lee, when reached by Mississippi Today, said he couldn’t recall the case and therefore couldn’t comment.
Carla Jenkins and Marcus Chatman watch as the “Bettye M. Jenkins” towboat goes under the Natchez Bridge. Heather McClelland. She frequently gets unwelcome calls in the middle of the night from her crew. Once, she was told that a collision with a bridge had left a gash in the side of a tank barge.
One of Carla Jenkins’s towboats, the “Bettye M. Jenkins,” sits at her dock in Vidalia, Louisiana on Oct. 6, 2019. Jenkins’s father, who built the boat, named it after Jenkins’s mother. Heather McClelland for Atlas Obscura
Because they typically lack propulsion of their own, barges strike bridges with some frequency. Sometimes they sink; once, a rice barge sank to the riverbed, and when the millions of grains hit the water, they expanded, warping the steel walls of the barge.
A runaway barge could t-bone a bridge, sending cars plunging into the water below. The crew could fish the cold body of a woman out of the water, only to find that she has survived a fall of 120 feet without so much as breaking a bone.
Heather McClelland. At around 10 miles per hour, they slip under the Huey P. Long Bridge, which was the first built in Louisiana across the Mississippi River, and they pass by the French Quarter, the oldest and most famous neighborhood in New Orleans.
In the morning, it’s finally the Vidalia Dock’s turn to go through the lock and onto the ICW, which runs all the way to Texas. At the higher water level of the Mississippi, the towboat moves into the lock chamber.
Boats are raised and lowered by way of the lock’s enclosed chamber, so that they can safely move between the two channels, which run at different water levels. Jenkins came to work for her father’s business 38 years ago, and she’s been running the company for over 15 years now.