JUPITER/KAREN VATIS collision.
Bridge collisions involving tugs in Seattle, Washington and Coos Bay, Oregon. Bridge collision between car carrier and Astoria Oregon Bridge. Bridge collision when HENRY FORD II hit the Fort Street Bascule Bridge in the Rouge River, Michigan.
Stability investigation related to the sinking of a Chilean fishing vessel.
Several back injury cases - see article in this issue.
Homicide - defendant operating his boat at high speed at dusk strikes bowsprit of yacht crossing channel ahead that is obscured by shore lights behind it. Passenger's head struck with death following immediately.
Fire - Investigation of fire on an Alaskan limit seiner. Investigation in the engineroom fire of a tug at sea which resulted in a death. Evaluations of fire fighting effort on passenger vessel that resulted in constructive total loss of SCANDINAVIAN SEA.
Grounding - Reconstruction of the track line of a freighter in the Columbia River which grounded on the outfall of the Trojan Nuclear Plant. The vessel had sustained a steering failure. Adequacy of the vessels response to the steering loss was at issue.
Regulatory Research - on manning of tugs which were involved in casualties in Alaska, Hawaii and Oregon.
Design Defect Adequacy of the design and fabrication of a tail shaft of an LNG vessel which failed.
Corrosion - Damage recovery when the sulfur cargo severely corroded the cargo holds of the CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
Container Lashings - Adequacy of lashings of containers lost overboard from the PRESIDENT TAFT.
Hindcasts - Actual weather conditions reconstructed from meteorological data to determine whether the actions of the person navigating a vessel were reasonable under the circumstances.
Structural investigation into the collapse of the #4 tween-deck of the M/V EASTERN HERO.
Boating and water skiing accidents throughout the United States.
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