Seafaring work has long been thought of as a male profession. To a certain extent, that is still true. Although women are increasingly finding their way into maritime work, they still make up less than two percent of all seafaring professionals. However, just because women are in the minority doesn’t…
On March 27, 2012 at around 2:00 a.m. a U.S Flagged tug Patrice McAllister caught fire with six people aboard in Canadian waters of Lake Ontario. U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian Coast Guard rescue crews responded to the vessel located seven miles south of Prince Edward Point, Ontario. One injured…
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 a 200-foot section of dry dock containing the 140-foot tug Invader sunk causing the tug to capsize at the Vigor Marine Shipyard in Everett, Washington. The dry dock began sinking on Saturday evening and stopped at approximately 12 p.m., Sunday, after making contact with the…
In Mai v. American Seafoods Company, 2011 Wash. App. LEXIS 615 (2011), our law firm represented a fish processing employee who injured her knee when she was struck by a 40 pound box of frozen fish product during an offload in Dutch Harbor. When our client’s doctor determined that she…