Maritime Injury -------------------------
A maritime attorney specialize in
representing passengers and crew members injured due to accidents and assaults
on cruise ships. A maritime attorney can also advise cruise line employees
regarding their rights for wages, medical treatment, and the full range of
compensation available in the United States legal system. A maritime attorney
can advise whether injuries sustained aboard a ship are compensative, what law
applies to their situation, and when their claim must be filed. A maritime
attorney can represent crew members that have a right to sue the cruise lines
for medical care, living expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering, and
disability.
In recent years Europe, particularly along the Atlantic
coastline, has seen a number of disastrous accidents involving oil tankers (Torrey
Canyon, Amoco Cadiz, Tanio, Braer, Aegean Sea, Erika and Prestige). These
have had catastrophic economic and environmental consequences.
Because of the volume of traffic and the resultant high risk to shipping in
European waters, national maritime agencies have introduced ship routing
systems, approved by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Improved
ship routing has helped to limit the risk of collision. However, the
existing systems have limited geographical scope and concentrate on the main
zones of traffic convergence without properly covering events that could
occur outside the range of radar or shore-based automatic identification
system (AIS) centers.
As specified by IMO, AIS is a broadcast system operating in the VHF maritime
radio band and capable of sending and receiving ship information such as
identity, position, course, speed, ship particulars, and cargo information
to and from other ships and shore. It can handle more 2,000 reports per
minute and updates information as often as every two seconds. A mandatory
implementation schedule depends on the type of the vessel (passenger ships,
tankers, 300 gross tonnage vessels, and so forth). The final installations
will occur before end of 2005.
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