Supreme Court Decision on Seamen’s Rights

The U. S Supreme Court heard and decided Atlantic Sounding Co., Inc. v Edgar Townsend (Case WL 1789469), a case that protects a seaman’s right to receive damages if an employer withholds obligatory maintenance and cure. Edgar Townsend suffered injuries while he worked on a tugboat belonging to the Atlantic Sounding Co., Inc. The company allegedly [...]

British Racing Yacht Detained in Iran

Five British sailors have been detained in Iran after their racing yacht was stopped by the Iranian navy while sailing from Bahrain to Dubai. It was noted that they may have inadvertently sailed into Iranian waters. The racing yacht, owned by Sail Bahrain and crewed by the five Britons, was stopped by Iranian naval vessels last [...]

Atlantic Sounding Co., Inc. v Edgar Townsend

The U. S Supreme Court heard and decided Atlantic Sounding Co., Inc. v Edgar Townsend (Case WL 1789469), a case that protects a seaman’s right to receive damages if an employer withholds obligatory maintenance and cure. Edgar Townsend suffered injuries while he worked on a tugboat belonging to the Atlantic Sounding Co., Inc. The company allegedly [...]

NJ to launch “Operation Dry Water”

State police in New Jersey will mount extra patrols the weekend of June 26 to 28 as part of Operation Dry Water, a national effort to curb boating under the influence of alcohol. “We will be fully engaged to support the program,” said state police spokesman Sgt. Steve Jones. “More than 20 percent of fatal boating accidents [...]

Piracy Ended With Military Action by US

On April 8th, 2009, four Somali pirates boarded the small container ship Maersk Alabama and left, taking the captain hostage. Five days later, the crisis has been ended by naval sniper fire. Adrift in the Gulf of Aden, the pirates waited with Captain Richard Phillips with the demand of two million dollars and a number of [...]

Shell Oil Cast More Than Pennies Down This Well

Shell Oil has embarked on quite an ambitious project 200 hundred miles off the coast of Galveston, TX.  In the summer to 2008 they anchored a newly built 50,000 ton floating rig to the seafloor, located over an area known as the Perdido foldbelt.  The rig is aimed at accessing the crude oil and natural [...]

Floating City Soon to Sail

In the American spirit of bigger is better and super sizing it, Royal Caribbean is coming close to completing their new $1.2 billion flagship, the Oasis of the Seas.  This ship will have the new claim of biggest passenger ship ever, making that claim by an overage of 2,000 passengers, with a total passenger capacity [...]

Cruise ship strikes ice, stranded on Antarctic coast

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) – A cruise ship carrying 122 people was stranded Thursday on the coast of Antarctica after striking ice, officials said. Mariano Memolli of the Argentina Antarctic Directorate told Argentina’s TodoNoticias (TN) Television a naval boat and plane were dispatched to evacuate the passengers of the Ushuaia as a precaution. The ship, carrying 89 [...]

Somali Pirate Update – Nov 19th 2008

Indian warship destroys a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden $10m ransom demanded for captured Saudi supertanker Somali Pirates Hijack Thai Fishing Boat & 16 Crew Ship belonging to Iran’s state shipping lines captured off the Yemen coast 39 ships have been hijacked in the Gulf of Aden in 2008 Pirates living the high life (BBC)

Somali Pirates Hijack Saudi Oil Tanker

Just six weeks after Somali pirates had hijacked a Ukrainian ship bound for Kenya, Somali pirates have reportedly hijacked a Saudi oil tanker off the eastern coast of Africa. The 1,000 ft-long Sirius Star, which had been headed for the United States, is reported to be the largest ship hijacked to date. Britain announced earlier this [...]