Visitors to the Science Museum of Minnesota's Mississippi River Gallery have the opportunity to pilot a simulated towboat pushing barges down the Mississippi River. They quickly find out the process is a lot harder than it looks. And today an actual riverboat pilot found out the same thing while cruising on the Mississippi near Dubuque, Iowa.
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