- Rescues at Sea, the United States Coast Guard, and Issues of Liability
- Coastal Villages Region Fund (F/V NORTH SEA) Fisherman Medevaced by Coast Guard
- Four Crewmen Rescued From Washington Fishing Vessel
- Coast Guard Searches For Overboard Fisherman Off Washington Coast
- F/V MAVERICK Sinks After Collision With F/V VIKING STORM; One Crewman Missing
- Personal Flotation Devices in the Commercial Fishing Industry
- Akutan Airport: Good News for Trident Seafoods - Long-term Benefits for Alaska?
- Injuries at Sea: Destroying Evidence Before Injured Seaman’s Lawyer Can Inspect Equipment
- Effect of Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010 on Commercial Fishing Vessels
- Washington State Court Rules On Punitive Damages In Maintenance and Cure Claim - Orders Icicle To Pay Injured Fisherman Over 2 Million Dollars
- Columbia River Bar Pilot Rescued After Fall Overboard From Ship
- F/V LADY CECILIA Lost Off Washington Coast – Four Crewmen Missing
- Fishing Vessel Chevelle Crashes on Rocks at Newport
- Alaska Crewman Lost Overboard From Glacier Spirit
- Responsibility of Ship Owners to Unarmed, Untrained Crewmembers Injured by Pirates
- Machine Guarding Aboard a Fishing Vessel is Federal Regulation
- The Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society: Serving Those Who Serve Us
- Costa Concordia Raises Issue of Passenger Rights of Recovery
- Focus on Fishing Industry Safety
- Is There a Correlation Between Long Shifts, Too Few Crewmembers, and Unseaworthiness?
- Seaman’s Right to Maintenance and Cure Is Not Subject to Employer’s Demand for Independent Medical Exam
- One Man Missing After Oregon Crab Boat Capsizes
- Who Pays Seaman's Attorney's Fee When Employer Refuses Medical Treatment?
- Expanding Seamen’s Rights By Pursuing Punitive Damages
- Crewman Seriously Injured On Alaska Fishing Vessel KITTIWAKE
- Coast Guard Responds To Mayday Call From TWO SONS Off San Francisco
- Injured Fisherman Hospitalized For Arm Laceration Aboard CAPTAIN MARK In Massachusetts
- Five Rescued From Sinking PENNY V Off Sanibel Island, Florida
- One Dead, One Seriously Injured After HIGH LIFE Capsizes Off Boston Shore
- Three Injured In Capsizing Of LOONEY TUNA In Southwest Pass
- Dangers of Cold Water
- ICE MAIDEN Sunk In Prince William Sound, Coast Guard Developing Salvage Plans
- Injured Fisherman Medically Evacuated From MISS MARIA West Of Naknek
- Coast Guard Medevacs Fisherman From Seattle-Based HEIDI LINEA Off Kodiak, AK
- Five Ejected From Boat Near Rochester, Rescued By Coast Guard
- Two Fishermen Medically Evacuated After Boat Explosion Near Savannah, GA
- Injured Fisherman Medically Evacuated Near Georgetown, SC
- Good Samaritan Boat BLUCIFER Rescues Five Off Cape Lookout in NC
- Coast Guard Rescues Two From Capsized Boat In Galveston Bay Near Houston
- Coast Guard Rescues Seven From Sinking Boat Off Port Canaveral, FL
- KNIGHT ISLAND Responds To Capsized Migrant-Smuggling Boat Off Palm Beach County
- Coast Guard Assists Grounded Fishing Vessel JB In Grays Harbor, Wash.
- Fishermen Lost At Sea For Three Days, Coast Guard Assists In Rescue
- Alaska Fishing Vessel ABBY LOUISE Sinks near Cordova
- Five Crewmen Rescued from Yacht in Gulf of Alaska
- Two Ocean Alaska Crewmen Cited For Lack of Licenses
- BARGE ADRIFT SOUTHWEST OF KODIAK ALASKA
- Cargo Ship Collides With Fishing Boat - Tragedy Narrowly Escaped
- Tug Boat Engineer Injured Aboard Tug BARBARA McALLISTER
- Alaska Diver Dies In Sea Cucumber Fishing Accident
- 1.1 Million Dollar Verdict For Injured Alaska Fisherman
- Ella Ann Sinks on Willapa Bay; One Crewman Lost
- Five Rescued From Fishing Boat Near Petersburg, Alaska
- One Missing, Another Dead, In Boating Accident On Willapa Bay
- Fishing Company Ordered To Designate Witness To Testify Regarding Comparative Fault Defense
- Lawsuits Against Cruise West Started By Injured Crewmen
- Alaska Deckhand Suffers Head Injury on CAPE RELIANT
- Search Suspended for Columbia River Sailor
- Crewman Suffers Serious Hand Injury Aboard PACIFIC GLACIER.
- Coast Guard Ends Investigation of Sunken Massachusetts Fishing Vessel
- Fishing Vessel Sinks in Sitka Sound
- Crew Rescued from Grounded Vessel in Gastineau Channel, Alaska
- Coast Guard Medevacs Injured Crewman near Adak, Alaska
- Obama Administration Enacts Restrictions on Fishing to Reverse Decline of Aleutian Sea Lion
- Coast Guard Responds to Barge Sinking on the North Slope, Alaska
- The Most Dangerous Jobs in America
- U.S. Navy Opposes Repeal of Jones Act
- Another Oil Platform Explosion In The Gulf
- Man Saved From Sinking Alaska Fishing Vessel
- Boat Fire Hits Seattle Trawler ROYAL ENTERPRISE
- Crab Boat Catches Fire at Seattle Port
- Punitive Damages Allowed For Unseaworthiness In U.S. District Court For Hawaii
- Punitive Damages Claims Permissible for Unseaworthiness and Jones Act negligence in Washington State Superior Court for King County
- Oregon Crewman Airlifted from Boat with Head Injuries
- Westport Fisherman Injured on Fishing Vessel RONDYS
- British Columbia Ferry Rams Dock - Six Passengers Injured
- Trident Buys Icicle’s Surimi Plant In Bellingham
- The Slimy Sea - Employers Hacking Into Injured Crewmen’s Shipboard E-mails
- Crewman Injured Aboard Scallop Boat EILEEN MARIE
- Alaska Fishing Vessel Issues Mayday - Crew of Polar Star Safe
- FISHING VESSEL SINKS OFF WASHINGTON COAST; CREWMAN SAVED
- Four Saved After Alaska Fishing Boat Burns and Sinks
- Highland Light Pays $135,000 EPA Penalty
- Tour Boat Accident in Boston Harbor – 174 Passengers Evacuated From Whale Watch Boat
- Barge Collides With Fishing Vessel, Leaving Two Dead
- Woman Killed On Seattle Construction Barge
- Alaska State Representative Cited for Fisheries Violation
- Undocumented Immigrant Entitled to Benefits For Injury Under Longshore Harbor Worker Compensation Act
- Four Saved After Boat Runs Aground at Grays Harbor
- Two Deckhands Injured By Chemicals In Mystery Containers
- Deadliest Catch Boats Tie Up At Fisherman’s Terminal West Wall
- 500-Foot Ship Loses Power Off Of Columbia River Bar
- Two Fishermen Rescued From Sinking Fishing Vessel Near Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island
- Louisiana Appellate Court Affirms Slight Negligence Causation Standard in Jones Act Injury Claims
- Charter Boat “KID A GIN” Sinks – Manistee, Michigan
- Fishing Vessel Avoids Sinking Off of Oregon Coast
- Container Ship Runs Aground in Columbia River
- OVERBOARD CREWMAN AIRLIFTED FROM GULF SUPPLY VESSEL
- Tug Loses Control of Barge Near Mouth of Columbia River
- Coastal Villages Trade Shares for Fishing Vessels - Acquire Catcher Processor NORTHERN HAWK and Three Longliners
- New York Staten Island Ferry Collision – Up To 40 People Injured
- FISHING ACCIDENT ON COLUMBIA RIVER COSTS THREE MEN’S LIVES
- CALIFORNIA FISHING BOAT AVOIDS DISASTER
- Two Rescued From Capsized Boat Near Port Angeles
- Man Evacuated From Fishing Vessel With Arm Injury
- Warrant Issued For Deadliest Catch Crewman
- Tanker Barge Explodes on Mississippi River
- Fishing Vessel MUIR MILACH Spills Diesel Oil In Bellingham
- Workers Missing in Oil Rig Explosion in Gulf of Mexico
- Alaska Fish Processor Crewman Evacuated From SEA FISHER
- One Crewman Lost in Sinking of NORTHERN BELLE - Three Survive Alaska Fishing Boat Sinking
- Fishing Vessel Aground Near Huntington Beach, California
- Dutch Harbor Seafood Company Agrees To Pay EPA $500,000 Fine
- Commercial Chinook Salmon Season To Open Off Washington and Oregon Coast
- Captain of Log Ship Charged With Operating Vessel While Intoxicated
- Injured Fisherman With Back Injury Airlifted For Medical Care
- Ship Held to Investigate Possible Intoxication of Captain
- TWO CALIFORNIA FISHERMEN RESCUED FROM SINKING FISHING BOAT
- SHORT OPENING SET FOR WASHINGTON COLUMBIA RIVER GILL NETTERS
- TRIDENT WORKER SUFFERS BURNS
- INJURED CREWMAN AIRLIFTED FROM OCEAN PEACE
- SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO HEAR CASE FOR LOSS OF CONSORTIUM ON HIGH SEAS
- TWO SEINING BOATS COLLIDE DURING SITKA HERRING SEASON
- BOAT EXPLODES AT FUEL DOCK IN PORTLAND OREGON
- WASHINGTON FISHING BOAT AVOIDS SINKING NEAR NEAH BAY
- CREWMAN HAS MEDICAL EMERGENCY ABOARD FISHING BOAT GOLDEN ALASKA
- VESSEL SINKS IN WARDS COVE ALASKA
- CONTAINER SHIP LOSES POWER IN STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA
- ISLAND TUG AND BARGE SINKS TUG BOAT IN SEATTLE’S DUWAMISH RIVER
- CREW RESCUED FROM SINKING DREDGE IN WASHINGTON
- CREWMAN DIES IN SINKING OF TUGBOAT IN HOUSTON SHIPPING CHANNEL
- SEAMAN MISSING FROM FISHING VESSEL NEAR SAMOA
- OREGON RIVER BOAT RUNS AGROUND NEAR PORTLAND
- GRAIN BARGE COLLIDES WITH BRIDGE ON OHIO RIVER
- CREWMAN FALLS OVERBOARD AND IS MISSING FROM CONTAINER SHIP NEAR ADAK ISLAND ALASKA
- SEARCH UNDERWAY FOR CRASHED PLANE NEAR SAND POINT ALASKA
- ALASKA FISHERMEN RESCUED FROM SINKING VESSEL
- COURT ORDERS AMERICAN SEAFOODS TO PRODUCE VESSEL FOR INSPECTION BY INJURED SEAMAN
- Three Alaska Fishing Vessels Ordered to Return to Port for Safety Violations
- 28 CREWMAN IN DANGER ON DISABLED INDIAN FREIGHTER
- COAST GUARD VESSEL COLLIDES WITH SMALL RECREATIONAL VESSEL KILLING AN 8-YEAR-OLD CHILD IN SAN DIEGO BAY
- WASHINGTON CRAB FISHERMAN MISSING OVERBOARD NEAR LA PUSH, WASHINGTON
- MARITIME EMPLOYERS MUST CONDUCT RANDOM DRUG TESTS OF 50 PERCENT OF LICENSED CREWMEN
- 32 FOOT GILL NET BOAT LIMIT TO STAY IN PLACE IN BRISTOL BAY, ALASKA
- SINKING CRAB BOAT TOWED TO CRESCENT CITY
- NEWPORT OREGON AND BELLINGHAM WASHINGTON CONTINUE TO BATTLE OVER NOAA HOME PORT
- COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN FREQUENTLY SEEN IN MARITIME INJURY CASES
- MORE DETAILS RELEASED ON DEATH OF ILWACO FISHERMAN
- F/V BALLAD LOSES CREWMAN OFF COLUMBIA RIVER BAR
- WASHINGTON STATE SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS SANCTIONS FOR DISCOVERY ABUSE CLEARING WAY FOR REINSTATEMENT OF $ 8 MILLION DOLLAR JUDGMENT
- THREE RESCUED FROM SINKING FISHING VESSEL NEAR COOS BAY OREGON
- STATE OF ALASKA TO PAY OUT OF STATE FISHERMAN $ 70 MILLION
- NINTH CIRCUIT COURT RULES THAT INJURED SEAMAN’S CLAIM AGAINST AMERICAN SEAFOODS MUST GO TO TRIAL
- HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FORCE CLOSURE OF WASHINGTON RIVER BARS
- JURY AWARDS SEAMAN 1.3 MILLION IN PUNITIVE DAMAGES AGAINST ICICLE SEAFOODS FOR FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE AND CURE
- TRIDENT LOSES BID TO PURCHASE FISH PROCESSING FACILITY ON ADAK ISLAND IN ALASKA
- SAFETY IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON COMMERCIAL CRAB FISHING FLEET LAGGING BEHIND INDUSTRY
- SEARCH SUSPENDED FOR F/V SEA TRACTOR - Three Fishermen Presumed Lost
- SEARCH SUSPENDED FOR CREWMAN MISSING FROM CONSTRUCTION BARGE
- Crewman Charged With Murder In Death of Fisherman in Ilwaco
- 1 PERSON KILLED IN MAY-CRAFT CAPSIZING
- PLEASURE BOAT CRASH KILLS 3, HURTS 4
- Land Based Commuter Seamen Are Entitled To Maintenance And Cure And Those Benefits May Not Be Denied Because of Receipt of Social Security Disability Payments
- HOUSEKEEPER ON RIVER BOAT CASINO HELD TO BE JONES ACT SEAMAN
- CREWMEN’S TIPS - SHOULD THEY BE INCLUDED IN UNEARNED WAGES?
- GOOD SAMARITAN FISHING VESSEL DA OPAILOLO II RESCUED BY COAST GUARD
- FOUR RESCUED, ONE BODY RECOVERED WHEN FISHING VESSEL CAPSIZES
- COAST GUARD RESPONDS TO FISHING VESSEL DIANE LYNN II
- FINAL REPORT RELEASED REGARDING SINKING OF LADY D
- Coast Guard Responds to Collision Between Two Towing Vessels
- Coast Guard Rescues Two Fisherman
- Three Men Rescued in Lake Pontchartrain
- Coast Guard Rescues Two From Grounded Vessel In San Juan Islands
- Coast Guard Saves Six From Capsized Vessel
- Coast Guard Rescues Five From Wall Collision
- Body Found in Search Area for Missing Passenger
- Coast Guard Searching for Man Overboard
- Cruise Line Passenger Falls Overboard
- Negligent Ship Pilot to Serve Ten Months for Bridge Collision and Oil Spill
- Ferry Workers Receive $1.1M for Toxic Voyage
- Two Swimmers Drown After Boat Drifts Away
- Crabber Missing After Falling Overboard
- Injured Fisherman Airlifted Near Beach Haven
- Fishermen, Beware of Fine Print in Employment Contract
- Employers Must Provide Safe Place to Work, Including Third-Party Locations (Warehouse)
- Federal Stimulus Money to Help Fish Farmers
- Good Samaritan Vessel Rescues Three after Vessel Catches Fire
- Coast Guard Suspends Search for Overboard Seaman
- Mariner Medevaced after Finger was Crushed and Severed
- Sailor Awarded $150,000 in Damages for Loss of Smell and Taste
- Coast Guard and Good Samaritan Assist Crew off Port Aransas
- Coast Guard and Good Samaritan Rescue Two off Jacksonville
- Coast Guard Rescues Two From Detroit River
- Florida Court Rules No Pain and Suffering for Relatives of Drowned Woman
- Court Grants Trial for Seaman Who Signed Release Form
- Three Fishermen Saved By Coast Guard After Vessel Capsized
- Washington Skipper Dies Aboard Fishing Vessel
- Woman Dies in Fishing Accident
- Fisherman’s Body Found in Togiak Bay, Alaska
- One Dead in Boat Allision in Georgia
- Five Missing in Downed Aircraft
- Coast Guard Ends Search for Missing Crewman
- Congress Considering New Safety Regulations for Fishing Industry
- United States Supreme Court Allows Punitive Damages to Hold Employers Accountable to Pay Seaman’s Medical Bills
- Two Dead, One Injured in Alcohol Involved Boat Accident
- Court Extends Statute of Limitations for Unknowingly Ill Seaman
- Court Rules Against Fee for Passengers on Private Vessels
- U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Personal Property Tax on Docking Vessels
- NMFS Passes New Regulations for Safer Boarding Ladders
- 2006 Report Concerned About Pacific Coast Fisheries Safety
- $4.1 Million Judgment For Longshoreman In Wrongful Death Claim
- CHILD SUPPORT LIENS AND SEAMAN'S MAINTENANCE
- CONCERN OVER POSSIBLE POLLUTION FROM GROUNDED ALASKA FISHING BOAT
- FIVE CREWMEN RESCUED FROM GROUNDED FISHING TRAWLER
- FOUR ALASKA CRAB FISHERMEN SAVED FROM SINKING VESSEL
- MAYDAY RECEIVED FROM "ICY MIST"
- ALASKA CRAB FISHERMAN LOST OFF SEABROOKE
- “PACIFIC GLACIER” CREW TRAINING PAYS OFF
- SEARCH FOR VESSEL “TRANSITION” CALLED OFF
- Joe Foss Sinks off the Oregon Coast
- Crabbing Vessel Anna Marie Grounded on Copalis Beach
- Fishing Vessel Haeshin Strikes Jetty
- Lady of Grace Sinking Likely Due to Ice
- "Operation Safe Crab" to Conduct Vessel Safety Spot Checks
- EPIRB Assists in Rescue in Sinking of Lady Blackie
- M/S Explorer Hits Ice and Sinks
- FISHING BOAT AND BARGE COLLIDE
- Icicle Seafoods Being Acquired by New York Equity Firm
- Injured Fisherman Airlifted to Oregon Hospital
- Collision in Chatham Strait Under Investigation by Coast Guard
- 19 Fisherman Rescued, 20 Still Missing After Boat Capsizes
- Medevac of Injured Fisherman
- 13 Rescued from Life Raft after Vessel Capsizes
- Three Rescued After Grounding of Vessel
- EXCURSION VESSEL AND RIVER BARGE COLLIDE
- BROKEN MAST KILLS MAN
- FISHERMEN RESCUED FROM SINKING VESSEL “RISKY BUSINESS”
- SEARCH FOR LADY LUCK AND CREW SUSPENDED
- SEARCH CALLED OFF FOR CREW OF SUNKEN FISHING VESSEL
- FISHING BOAT SINKS, FOUR CREWMEN MISSING
- Search Called Off for Missing Crewman
- Alaska Fishing Boat Ocean Challenger Sinks, 1 Survivor found, 2 Dead and 1 still missing
- Tugboat and Barge Catch Fire After Hitting Natural Gas Pipeline
- Many Injuries Aboard Listing Cruise Ship
- Kite Tube Injuries and Deaths Prompt Recall
- Medevac of Injured Fisherman
- DeHaviland Beaver Float Plane Crashes
- Overturned Boat, Missing Man
- Boat Collision in Tillamook Bay, Oregon
- Sinking of Water Taxi Determined to be Due to Overweighting
- Search for Fishing Vessel "Slayer" Called Off
- Sinking of Crab Boat at Tillamook Bar May Be Due to Jetty Miscalculation
- Sinking Presumed in Disappearanch of 50-foot Northern Dawn
- Accident on fishing boat takes off most of young man's right hand
- Coast Guard Medevacs Man with Severe Head Injury
- Woman loses legs after equipment she was cleaning suddenly powered up
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