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 [...]
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 [...]
Cruise Company Sued Over Fuel Surcharges
Attorney General Bill McCollum filed a lawsuit against a Broward County cruise ship company for failing to adequately disclose fuel surcharge fees. According to the lawsuit, Imperial Majesty Cruise Line LLC has collected approximately $4m in fuel surcharges from late 2006 to present.
The company, which offers two-day cruises to the Bahamas, is also accused of [...]
Heather platform evacuated after oil leak
Personnel were evacuated today from the Petrofac-operated Heather oil production platform in the UK North Sea after an oil leak in the processing module shut down the facility. Petrofac, which runs the Heather platform for Lundin Britain, confirmed that 57 workers were taken by three helicopters to Shetland as remaining staff tackled the oil spill, [...]
Irving Oil, Global Petroleum Settles for $315,500
BOSTON (UsMaritimeLaw.org) – On March 8, 2006, contractors allegedly removed at least one check-valve from an oil fuel loading dock jointly owned by New Hampshire-based Irving Oil, Irving Oil Terminals and Global Petroleum Corp. This created a one- to two-foot gap in the pipeline. Global then attempted to transfer fuel oil through the pipeline, releasing [...]
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