captain put duct tape on it and i kind of made a joke out of duct tape on a duck boat. you know? 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 5 miles per hour around 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. >> hey, barry, barry, barry, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! >> fruitless efforts are made to contact the operator of the tugboat towing this empty steel barge riding high in the water. >> i couldn't believe we were