Crescent Towing recently took delivery of the M/V Angus R. Cooper II, a new 6,000 HP tier 4 z-drive tugboat constructed at Blakeley BoatWorks in Mobile, Alabama, to be added to their ship assist operations in the Port of Savannah, Georgia.
On April 20, multiple Cooper/T. Smith (CTS) Mooring boats were at work on the Mississippi River when the unthinkable happened. While securing ship mooring lines to the head buoy at Darrow, Mile 179, a Mooring boat capsized, plummeting its four crew members into the dangerous waterway.