Biscayne Towing provides South Florida’s boating community, professional mariners and recreational boaters alike, with a wide variety of services that are available 24 hours a day.

With its two locations at Dinner Key and the Port of Miami, Biscayne Towing and Salvage can easily access boats with a quick response time. The company offers boaters towing and salvage, as well as several other services that include battery jumps, groundings and refloating sunken vessels, and marine environmental protection.

Biscayne Towing and Salvage has the vessels and crew especially equipped and trained to provide a wide range of services. In fact, with the addition of its newest vessel, 65-foot supply type salvage vessel, the company has the capability to provide fuel, transport cargo and long range towing service.

“This capability allows us to service larger yachts, coastal freighters and offshore facilities such as Fort Jefferson in the Everglades National Park’s Dry Tortugas,” said Capt. Cory Offutt, owner of Biscayne Towing.

Offutt is a U.S. Coast Guard certified 100-ton vessel master with a towing endorsement. He is the company’s underwater salvage expert.

Captain Pete Hargreaves is the managing operator of Biscayne Towing’s Dinner Key location, and is a U.S. Coast Guard certified 100-ton vessel master with unlimited radar and towing endorsement. His marine experience includes six years on destroyers in the Navy and nine years as a system support engineer on Navy vessels for Hughes Aircraft.

Offutt opened the company in 1992, when he focused primarily on commercial assistance towing, emergency repairs and salvage work.

“We can service and meet the needs of every vessel, no matter how big or small,” Offutt said. “We are capable of towing anything from a jet ski up to a 180-foot freighter.”

Underwater services offered by Biscayne Towing include recovery of wayward ground tackle, underwater video survey, in-water propeller and rudder replacement, underwater patching and emergency repair. The company also floats sunken vessels and will retrieve valuables from sunken vessels.

Biscayne Towing is committed to responsible salvage and towing techniques that are environmentally safe. For example, as a licensed towing company in the Biscayne National Park, Biscayne Towing is required to follow environmentally acceptable techniques and salvage procedures for refloating grounded vessels.

“Not just anybody can do this type of work. You must have the experience and be very environmentally conscious when doing this type of work and providing this service,” Offutt said. “We feel that we are very environmentally conscious in our towing and salvage techniques.” 

The company is an approved Discharge Cleanup Organization (DCO) by Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection. Since its beginning, Biscayne Towing has dealt with numerous oil and fuel spills.

Biscayne Towing is an affiliated tower for BoatU.S. Boat Owners Association of the United States, which is the largest organization of recreational boaters in the country, with over 500,000 members.

“Our capabilities allow us to provide services and towing to any vessel, any size, anywhere,” Offutt said. “We are experienced, having been around for so many years, and we have the best equipment in the business.”

Biscayne Towing is available 24 hours a day. For more information, call 305-358-1486 or visit the Web site at < www.biscaynetowing.com >.