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Maritime Law - What is it? One lawyer answers...
From the Wall Street Journal Blog- Earlier today, in a post on the Exxon Valdez litigation, we copped to not knowing much at all about maritime law. Well, over the course of the afternoon, the admission started to gnaw within us, so we decided to rectify the situation. We checked in with Warren... Read more...
Published a day ago

Five years later, Staten Island ferry crash victim standing tall
Out of the city's deadliest transportation accident in decades emerged the story of a young Staten Island man whose spirit defied belief. Paul Esposito was a 24-year-old waiter with his whole life ahead of him when he lost both of his legs - and nearly his life - in the 2003 Staten Island ferry... Read more...
Published a day ago

Pilot: Towboat erratic before Miss. River spill
NEW ORLEANS (AP) â€" A towboat was so erratic it appeared its operator "had had a stroke" as it pushed a barge into the path of a tanker before a collision that shut a major shipping waterway over the summer, the tanker's pilot testified Thursday.The tanker ran over the barge in July, causing the... Read more...
Published 5 days ago

Bodies of US reps' brother, his girlfriend found
LOS ANGELES (AP) â€" The bodies of the brother of two Southern California congresswomen and his girlfriend have been recovered from the waters off Los Angeles, days after the couple disappeared during a boat trip, authorities said Thursday. The bodies of Henry Sanchez, 51, and Penny Avila, 48,... Read more...
Published 5 days ago

US loses Jones Act case
A federal court in Virginia has handed the Shipbuilders Council of America its second victory this year in cases it brought against the Coast Guard for allowing major work on Jones Act ships to be done at foreign shipyards. Matthew Paxton, SCA president, said Tuesday that District Judge T.S.... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

Fishing boat accident spurs indictment
A crew member aboard a commercial fishing boat that sank off the Manasquan Inlet was indicted yesterday on charges he illegally discharged diesel fuel into the Atlantic Ocean. The indictment charged Keith Rose, 46, of Wellfleet, Mass., with one count of violating the state's Water Pollution... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

Tugboat Life
This is a really fantastic site for professional mariners and industry people. It is run by professional mariners too. Dwayne Read more...
Published a week ago

St. Johns River Boat Accident Kills 1 in April - Jacksonville Florida Boating Accident Lawyers @ lawboat.com
Video on boating accident on St. Johns River near Jacksonville. Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Shipping ex-execs plead guilty in Jones Act antitrust case
Four former U.S. shipping company executives have agreed to plead guilty and serve jail sentences for their roles in what the U.S. Department of Justice describes as "a wide-ranging conspiracy to rig bids, fix prices and allocate market shares for customers transporting goods between the... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Barge Accident Victim Denied Jones Act Claim - No Seaman's Status
This legal analysis is from Missouri Personal Injury Lawyer Blog. The blog post is on seaman's status. Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Coast Guard Hearing Continues on Mel Oliver Collision in New Orleans
Jan Stefan Bjarve, the Captain of the Tintomara(the tanker involved in the crash) blames the tug boat. In his testimony about the collision, he said the trip up the river was a fairly routine one, then he saw the Mel Oliver (the tug boat) coming across his path. Bjarve said he could see the Mel... Read more...
Published a month ago

Disney motto helped dad, autistic son survive at sea
Lost at sea with nothing to hold onto amid a dreadful darkness, Florida resident Walter Marino continually called out some of the few words his 12-year-old autistic son Christopher responds to. The pair, swept out in a late-afternoon current near Daytona Beach, had been treading water in shark-... Read more...
Published a month ago