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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
There is video somewhere from a few years ago that shows a tug boat rolling completely under as it went under a bridge in flood. It had been ballasted for that very purpose.
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Not exactly so...they definitely are ballasted to keep the wheels in the water when the bunkers are light but I guarantee you they aren't ballasted to recover from a roll because there's no reason to ever worry about roll on an inland waterway...there's no swell.
The pics you speak of was the Towboat Cahaba being pulled under the Rooster Bridge by her tow on the Tombigbee River near Demopolis,AL. The only reason she survived and didn't sink like a stone was because the engine room hatches were closed and the only reason she didn't get rolled all the way over was because she'd fueled earlier in the day and had 20,000 gallons of diesel in her bunkers
acting as ballast.