Martha’s Vineyard, MA: The Leonardo, a scalloping vessel based out of New Bedford, was caught in choppy seas just a bit southwest of Martha’s Vineyard on Sunday afternoon. The vessel soon capsized and sank in the surrounding water. One of the 4 fishermen was found in a lifeboat hours after a distr …
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Cruise ship death: Losing a family member is never easy. It is even more difficult when the death is that of a toddler. What’s worse? When the death could have and should have been prevented. This past summer Chloe Wiegand was traveling with her immediate and extended family – her parents, two si …
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Maritime industry hit a wave when the Bourbon Rhode, a tugboat that sank this past Thursday, had been traveling from the Canary Islands to Guyana. The boat was in journeying around 1,200 nm from Martinique on September 26th when it began taking on water. The vessel was a mere 60 nm from Hurricane Lo …
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Santa Barbara, California: Did you know that there are a multitude of causes which could deem a vessel to be unseaworthy? Well, there are, and crewman Ryan Sims, who was working as a cook for just a mere three weeks on a vessel, recently filed suit against the boat owner for a harrowing fire he bar …
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Brunswick, Georgia: The Golden Ray, a massive cargo ship, capsized off of the Georgia coast late Sunday evening. The Coast Guard began receiving distress calls around 2:00 a.m., regarding the 656 foot behemoth. The vessel had just departed Cornel’s Island Terminal when it capsized. The Golden Ray, …
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Santa Barbara, California: Protection and safety measures on any vessels are of paramount importance; however, even when a vessel has been confirmed to have passed prior inspections how safe are you? Case in point is the Conception, a 75-foot commercial diving vessel, which caught fire over the Labo …
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Cruise Boat Lawyers: O’Bryan Law       You take off work, scheduling a relaxing seven-day trip on the Princess Cruises. Sounds like the perfect getaway, doesn’t it? Unfortunately that wasn’t so for at least four people yesterday.            Two floatplanes, which were carrying Princess Crui …
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Maritime Lawyer News:Â On Monday, another huge maritime accident hit the water. The SINCERITY ACE car carrier (a 650-foot car carrier with 21 crew members and 350 Nissan vehicles in transit), a vessel sailing under the Panama flag and owned by Shoei Kisen Kaisha, caught fire in its trip from Japan to …
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What is the Jones Act? Otherwise known as the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, the Jones Act brought into maritime law new rules of liability never before applied under the general maritime law. Section 33 of the Merchant Marine Act of June 5, 1920 is the pertinent section, commonly called “the Jones Ac …
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