News tagged with 'Maritime'

Attempting to retrieve a stuck anchor by reving the 21-foot fishing boat caused it to capsize in the Gulf of Mexico last month, killing three of the four young men on board, two of them NFl players.  Cutting the rope and leaving the anchor would have cost about $100, say investigators.    

The odds were against survival at sea for a father and son swept out by rip currents off the coast of Florida Saturday. But the 12-year-old boys' autism likely kept him alive as he lacked fear and panic in the water, even after 12 hours and even with his father out of sight.

There is far more to know about taking a cruise than the brochures tell you.  Look at the fine print and see that the cruise lines have very little liability if you are injured at sea. (Part Two)  

Don and Marlene Bryce were planning to celebrate aboard a Holland America cruise. Instead, Don collapsed in their cabin and Marlene says the doctor showed up two minutes after Don died. (Part One)

A Massachusetts judge recently ordered the owners of a tugboat to pay $1.1 million for damages their vessel caused to a tugboat-barge in the Cape Cod Canal. In August 1999, the tugboat Mary Turecamo , owned by Moran Towing Corp., and the barge Florida , owned by Petroleum Transport Corporation, were tied together t

Oklahoma's Attorney General, Drew Edmondson, announced this week that the state has filed suit against the owner and driver of a tugboat that rammed into an interstate highway last month, killing 14 people. On May 26, Capt. William Joe Dedmon, an employee of Magnolia Marine Transport Co., was pushing two barges up the

The Ingram Barge Company has settled a lawsuit with a former employee who suffered serious head injuries while working on a boat on the Ohio River. Christopher Eldridge, 24, was severely injured in 1999 when a cable aboard the barge snapped and struck him in the head. The $10 million settlement, reached Tuesday, is b