BIG BLUE

Passenger (Inspected) · Passenger Ship class · Built 2010s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

BIG BLUE is a 2019 passenger vessel (inspected). The Coast Guard has recorded 13 inspections since 2019, most recently in December 2025, along with 1 deficiency and 1 casualty investigation in 2022.

Records from 2019 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 9 December 2025.

Built: 2019
Last inspected: 9 December 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 13
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2022

Coast Guard record current through 23 August 2026, retrieved 5 September 2026 from PSIX. Every field on this page was recorded by the Coast Guard. Records for the Passenger Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 9 December 2025

Recorded inspections13

…physical examinations11

…administrative events1

…with no type recorded1

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 6 calendar years (2019–2025)

Every line above is a count of records the US Coast Guard wrote, or a date it recorded. A blank resolution means none was recorded in this data; it does not establish that a deficiency is outstanding. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

Identity

1298947

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WDN9487

1566989

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-1566989

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)36.0 ft × 14.0 ft × 7.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 23 / net 18

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderNEWTON BOATS INC · Slidell, LA, UNITED STATES · built 2019

Hull materialFRP (Fiberglass)

PropulsionDiesel Direct

Hull shapeShip

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portPANAMA CITY, FL

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 22 December 2025 · expires 31 December 2026

Service, as the file records itPassenger (Inspected)

Hull formpowered (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)

Tonnage as PSIX records it23 - Simplified, Gross Ton
18 - Simplified, Net Ton

Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 August 2026, matched to this hull on its Official Number. Registered and ITC measurements are two systems and are never combined. One snapshot is held so far; documentation history begins with the next.

Vessel history report

Every record for this hull, in one document — $299

Every recorded inspection, 2016 to 2026 for this class, in one chronology · every deficiency, with system, dates and resolution · operational controls imposed and removed · every name this hull has been recorded under · the vessels it was inspected alongside, and when · how its record compares with hulls of similar age and size, as a fact about the population and never a judgement about this vessel.

Read one first, in full: a forty-year chronology · a hull that changed operators four times · the sparse case, shown as an example, not for sale.

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Inspection history · 13

9 December 2025 Annual Inspection · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Panama City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8280365

12 August 2025 Administrative Inspection · Drydock Exam · Internal Structural Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Panama City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8207332

15 January 2025 Annual Inspection · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Panama City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8064157

8 December 2023 Annual Inspection · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Panama City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7836547

11 August 2023 Internal Structural Exam · Drydock Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Panama City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7765721

15 December 2022 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Panama City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7609674

15 June 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Panama City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7485226

15 March 2022 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7412422

3 December 2021 Administrative Inspection · COI Inspection · DAPI Audit

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Panama City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7408850

3 August 2021 Hull Examination

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7276323

17 February 2021 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7141745

6 January 2020 Deficiency Check · COI Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6876465

28 July 2019 Plan Review "T" Boat · Construction Oversight · Inclining Experiment · Drydock Exam · Simplified Stability Test · Internal Structural Exam

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6811378

Deficiency record · 1

05 - Radio Communications › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (radio communication)

Issued 6 January 2020 Resolved

Licensees of radio stations are required to have current station documents as indicated. Missing FCC Communications Act Safety Certificate. Provide current FCC Safety Certificate. 47CFR80.401

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 5 February 2020
Resolved 30 January 2020
Resolution: Operator provided proof of valid FCC Communications Act Safety Radiotelephony Certificate

Casualty record · 1

15 June 2022Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 7485226

Each line is an incident investigation the Coast Guard recorded with this hull among the vessels involved, with the date and the classification the Coast Guard gave it. Involvement is not fault. The investigation narrative is not published. Source: IIR, through 2026.

Ownership record

The Coast Guard's documentation record for this hull -- the Abstract of Title, with its owners and liens as filed -- is not in PSIX. Ask, and Maury buys it from the National Vessel Documentation Center, files it here with its date, and every reader of this page gets it.