Bob Couttie’s Maritime Accident Casebook

Like us? Bookmark this article! As lawyers fiddle in their briefs in preparation for the trial of San Francisco pilot John Cota, another bridge contact incident has come under the spotlight with the release of the US National Transportation Safety Board’s report on the Panama-registered 243 metre [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Our good feiwend John Konrad of the great gCaptain site sent us the following email. It’s certainly worth clicking the clicks:
It’s been a few months since I sent those interested in the Cosco Busan an email. My apologies, the incident in New Orleans has been [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Nobody’s wearing any t-shirts proclaiming ‘Free The Cosco Busan Six’, no craggy-jawed celebrity is taking up their cause at the UN, but, then, they’re not cute whales or seals, not noticeably gay, don’t appear to advocate political or cultural extremism, and aren’t [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! “Capt. Cota acknowledges the lack of situational awareness and does not expect it to happen again.”
Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays: Investigation into the grounding of the M/V Pioneer…on 20 February 2006.
Bay pilot John Cota’s week it wasn’t, starting April 8, [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! The Cosco Busan Hearings can be watched live here. heaRing start at 8.30 local time (NY).
Live Webcast!
Real Video
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Like us? Bookmark this article! Cosco Busan pilot John Cota has invoked his right under the 5th Amendment of the US Constitution, which protects accused persons from self-incrimination, not to appear at the US National Transportation Safety Board hearings which start on 8th April. Through lawyers, he [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Tanker, Vessel Collide In NY Harbor
WNBC - New York,NY,USA
The Coast Guard Sector New York Vessel Traffic Service received notification from both vessels after the collision. A 33-foot Coast Guard Station New York

Dozen barges run aground on Ohio River in western [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Three dead, one missing in SW China boat crash
Xinhua - China
… a local maritime source said on Tuesday. The accident happened on the Wu River in Changshou District at 8 pm when a passenger ship from the suburban 
Another Oil [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Japanese Navy Collision With Fishing Vessel Leaves Two Missing
Bloomberg - USA
By Takashi Hirokawa Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) — Two people are missing after a Japanese Navy destroyer collided with and sank a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean …

9:30 [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! VESSEL AGROUND IN THE RIVER CLYDE
At 17.50 this evening Clyde Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) received a call from Estuary Control reporting that a cargo vessel the Minerva 2 had lost engine power in the River Clyde.
Monterey Bay science vessel runs [...]

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