An abandoned concrete barge has been sitting off the coast of DuPont for more than 60 years. If you time it right, at low tide you can follow a long sandbar littered with barnacled logs and metal ...

LA PUSH, Wash. — The U.S. Coast Guard is working on a plan to tow in a loose barge after rescuing five people who were on board when it lost steering off the Washington coast Friday. The Luther, a 130 ...

Of all the freak engineering feats with which the U.S. tried to bridge the Atlantic in World War I, none was more freakish than the concrete ship. Of these “floating stones” the U.S. built 43. Last ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Five people were rescued off the Washington coast after their commercial tugboat lost steering while towing a concrete barge late Friday afternoon. Just after 4 p.m., Coast ...

Five people aboard a tug boat are breathing a sigh of relief after being pulled to safety by the U.S. Coast Guard off the coast of La Push. Around 4:10 p.m. on Friday, the U.S. Coast Guard requested ...

Gate is designed to block hurricane storm surge from moving from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway into the Industrial Canal Contractors have discovered a 15-foot-long, horseshoe-shaped crack in the ...

Concrete doesn’t sound like the best material for the hull of a barge. The mixture of crushed rock and cement is heavier than wood, especially when molded around a steel mesh skeleton. Concrete is ...