Maritime Lawyer

The U.S. Coast Guard was recently assisted in the rescue of two sailors by a California Maritime Academy ship. The rescue took place off the coast of Monterey. According to the Coast Guard, they received a distress call around 1pm from a 17 foot long boat, known as the Blue Chip, carrying two passengers.
The Coast […]

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The Supreme Court has drastically reduced the sentence Exxon Mobil Corporation was forced to pay after the 1989 Valdez oil spill. They originally were supposed to pay harmed Alaskans $5 billion but now are only be required to pay $500 million.
Over 11 million gallons of oil spilled into the ocean from the accident. The captain […]

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A cruise ship recently collided with a Manhattan pier. There are, so far, no reports of injuries.
Officials for New York City say that the collision damaged parking lot support beams on Pier 90 on the Hudson River. They would also like to mention that there is no risk of collapse.
The ship, Norwegian Spirit, was owned […]

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The M/V Sanctuary, a vessel which earned 11 battle stars during the Vietnam war, is now the target of a legal battle waged between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Potomac Navigation Inc., the private company that bought the ship at auction in October.
According to the EPA, the Sanctuary contains unsafe levels of toxins, including […]

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