A crewmember on an offshore supply vessel that ran aground at the Galveston North Jetty last week, sustained injuries, and had to be taken to the hospital. The accident occurred at the Galveston Jetties over the weekend when the offshore supply vessel, the Ashton T ran aground. The 94-foot vessel was carrying about 1,600 gallons of diesel fuel a...

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The U.S. Coast Guard has ordered an investigation into why the tall ship HMS Bounty set sail and sank as Hurricane Sandy headed for the northeast last week. The search for the ship’s missing captain also has been called off."We'll be looking into anything that may have caused the incident or contributed to it, communications, records, schematics...

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A contract worker died last week after a construction-related accident in a Galveston shipyard. The man was operating a backhoe from outside the cab at Southwest Shipyard when he was pinned by the boom.A crew was working on digging a hole at the time of the incident. The worker had gotten off the backhoe and was standing behind it when he went t...

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