duct tape on a duck boat. at the same time i was like, man, this can't be good. and somebody said, does this barge see us? at first it looks like the duck boat is all alone in the river, but it's not. a 250-foot behemoth is heading directly towards them at a steady five miles per hour and appears not to see them. >> it was kind of a gradual wave of panic for not only me, but for everybody else. you know, my main thing was, i got to get my daughter out of this danger. so, i jumped up and the captain is screaming, whoa, whoa, whoa on his radio. >> fruitless efforts are made to contact the operator of the tug boat, towing this empty steel barge riding high in the water. >> i just couldn't believe this was happening and i couldn't believe that we were about to die. it just didn't seem any way possible to survive something as tall as a three-story building