SEATTLE – Washington State Ferries has dealt with five different incidents in the past two weeks. Two of those mishaps involved the passenger ferry Snohomish, including the most recent one Monday night.

It's now to a point where the U.S. Coast Guard had a safety meeting with ferry officials Tuesday, telling them that the accidents need to stop.

During the Monday evening commute, the Snohomish with 141 passengers on board was headed into the Bremerton mooring dock when it hit hard enough to injure five passengers, none seriously.

"It wasn't a minor bump. I'm used to the other ferries' minor bump and you just roll your weight. Their bump, I was actually staying just like this and was flown to my left six feet into some metal stairs," said Brian Beauchemin.

The reason the Snohomish was even running to Bremerton was to backfill for the car ferry Yakima, which had an accident in Bremerton on Friday. The Coast Guard says the Yakima took on water after scraping its hull 150 feet along a breakwater, even breaking frames inside.

A few days earlier, the Sealth, operating between Lopez Island and Anacortes, took big waves on its car deck, damaging vehicles.  And the Snohomish was again back in the news, damaged by heavy seas.

"Safety is our number one priority, and there's nothing worse as I lay awake last night thinking, 'what on earth can we do next,'" said transportation secretary Paula Hammond.

She says in most accidents, weather played a role.

"We're going to look very carefully at the weather issues and whether or not it was just out of control weather, that perhaps they should have decided not to make that trip, or just a situation, act of God, that you really can't explain," said Hammond.

Beauchemin says he's not angry, but says something needs to be done. 

"It's a lot of stress on our system that's being stretched to the max," said Beauchemin.

The state ferry system says service may return to normal Wednesday on the Bremerton-Seattle run. The 144-car Hyak is coming out of maintenance and should be ready, if Tuesday sea trials go well.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.