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Tug with oil barges stuck at Galveston

The "Richard Gonsoulin II" was pushing two oil barges on Oct 26, 2013, when the Crew reported something got caught in their prop before the convoy grounded around mile marker 355 on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in the Houston/Galveston area. The barges were loaded with approximately two million gallons of crude oil and were stuck near the Galveston Causeway Bridge After many unsuccessful attempts to refloat the barges with assist tugs on Oct 27, the Coast Guard approved a plan to offload some crude oil to stand-by barges to lessen the weight and increase buoyancy. The barges were after 756000 gallons crude oil were lightered. The Marine Safety Unit Texas City personnel were on scene throughout the offloading and reloading of the crude oil in order to ensure the evolution was successful and to investigate the cause of the grounding. Report with photos: http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/1946074/Crude-oil-filled-barges-freed-after-weekend-grounding#sthash.Mjdhne2B.dpuf