Barge sinks with excavator onboard - video

**Jon** · Jan 25, 2020, 12:07 PM

Barge sinks with excavator onboard.

Previously:

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**Karl_H** · Jan 25, 2020, 05:55 PM

I wonder how it broke in the first place.

**owen moore** · Jan 25, 2020, 06:21 PM

I'm not a smart man, but I would say that the barge had more on it's plate than it could say grace over!

**Ralphxyz** · Jan 25, 2020, 06:45 PM

So they towed it offshore where it did a clamshell close.

**Frank S** · Jan 25, 2020, 11:35 PM

Over loaded age weakened barge and 2 excavators are now a fish habitat.
a hundred years from now or possibly 300 a submersible and a team of weak end ship wreck hunters will scratch their heads over how and why the vessel sank where it did.

**Fluffle-Valve** · Jan 26, 2020, 08:04 AM

That's just got to have been overloaded. Probably being really old and rusting away wouldn't help?

**hemmjo** · Jan 29, 2020, 11:07 AM

That was a nice excavator....

**greyhoundollie** · Jan 29, 2020, 12:43 PM

Is it possible it was actually two barges tied end to end? I am not sure if that would work trying to transfer sand off one barge to the second barge in a relay operation but one excavator got ahead of the other and too much weight simply got piled too close to the end of barge #1 or Barge #2