Category: Offshore & Boat Accidents
NTSB report: Pilot in deadly tug boat accident was on cell phone
On behalf of Terence Gross of Gross & Schuster, P.A. posted in Offshore & Boat Accidentson Thursday, March 10, 2011. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued its report on last summer's deadlyboat accident in Philadelphia, in which a barge being pushed by a tug boat collided with a disabled Duck boat on the Delaware…
Fatal boat accident in Bayou Chico kills man on second honeymoon
On behalf of Terence Gross of Gross & Schuster, P.A. posted in Offshore & Boat Accidentson Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Pensacola Police were called to the Pensacola Shipyard at 7:25 p.m. Monday night because a 35-year-old man from Orange Beach, Alabama, had jumped off a docked boat into Bayou Chico and was missing. He had…
Recent drowning, boat accident call for focus on water safety
On behalf of Terence Gross of Gross & Schuster, P.A. posted in Offshore & Boat Accidentson Monday, April 18, 2011. The drowning death of a 23-year-old man from Mobile has led officials at the Gulf Islands National Seashore to consider whether there are sufficient surf condition flags to warn swimmers of the danger. The young…
Boat manufacturer settles lawsuits filed after fatal 2009 accident
On behalf of Terence Gross of Gross & Schuster, P.A. posted in Offshore & Boat Accidentson Thursday, May 12, 2011. It was a scene worthy of a nightmare: a boat containing 14 people crashed into a tugboat on Easter two years ago. Several people were thrown from the boat. Five of them died and nine…
Boat driver flees scene after crashing into channel marker
On behalf of Terence Gross of Gross & Schuster, P.A. posted in Offshore & Boat Accidentson Thursday, May 26, 2011. A boating accident in Palm Beach County last weekend illustrates the dangers of drinking and boating. A 21-year-old man reportedly fled the scene after piloting a boat into an illuminated channel marker. The boat accident…
