Maritime Lawyer

Poor ventilation is being blamed in a fuel tank explosion that nearly killed a welder last month in San Diego.  The explosion occurred on the US Navy cruiser Lake Champlain while it was undergoing maintenance.
This information comes from an official with the welder’s union who is close to the federal investigation. The allegations come just […]

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Five crew members are missing and one is dead after a ship sank off of the coast of South Korea, their Coast Guard reports. The boat was a fishing boat and it sank due to a fire. One other crew member had been rescued. The crew member that died had been rescued as well.
While this […]

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Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer have introduced legislation to prevent future oil spills. They have introduced two separate pieces of legislation.
The first piece of legislation, Boxer-Feinstein Maritime Emergency Prevention Act, aims to grant the Coast Guard more power and resources for their Vessel Traffic Service (VTS). This bill ensures that the Coast Guard will […]

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 The explanation being given by various people on board the M/S Explorer, the cruise ship that sank off of the coast of Antarctica after hitting an ice berg, is not holding water, so to say.
A former captain of the Explorer says that the ship was perfectly built to handle the young pack ice of the […]

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The San Fransisco Bay area is about to get a lot more dangerous because of a lack of funding.
The PORTS (Physical Oceanographic Real Time System), a high tech navigation system that uses real time signals from various stations on docks around the bay, is going to be shut down next summer due to a lack of […]

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