RedactedNarrative: According to a USCG MISLE report, a commercial tug boat hauling two nuclear reactors crashed into an anchored recreational vessel, resulting in the death of one person and injury of another on the recreational vessel.
  
  The recreational pontoon vessel was anchored outside of the channel, fishing, with other boats nearby.  The two subjects were fishing with their backs to the channel.
  
  The commercial vessel was headed to Norfolk, VA.  The operator had restricted vision due to the location of cargo onboard and even though the deckhand attempted four times to warn the operator of the recreational vessel, the operator of the commercial vessel took no action.  He later said there was a miscommunication via the handheld radio transition.  The tug and barge struck the pontoon boat and dragged it, submerged for 50 feet before it popped back up along the starboard side of the barge.  The two recreational boaters were pulled from the water, one unresponsive who later died, and another with shoulder injuries who was taken to the hospital.  
  
  The cause of death was tentatively ruled a drowning as a result of blunt force trauma. 
  
  
  Alcohol testing was negative.